Martin Antonenko
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He Would Have Loved to Become a Cook ...
On this commemorative stele in the Russian village of Satino-Russkoje In the Wolga Federal District, Republic of Tatarstan...
... we find the following inscription ...:
"Here lies a Russian soldier
Jevgenij Rodionow,
who defends the fatherland
and Christ did not give up
(and) in Bahmut on May 23, 1996
was executed. "
Who was Yevgeny Alexandrovich Rodionov? An open, very youthful and freckled 18-year-old face looks at us ...:
Rodionov was born on May 23, 1977 in the village of Chibirlei near the city of Kuznetsk (Penza Oblast). He was no longer able to fulfill his great professional dream of becoming a chef, because in 1995 he was drafted into the Russian army, which was at war in Chechnya.
After his basic training Rodionw...
... was deployed in the border security special unit number 479, troop number 2038, in Chechnya.
On February 13, 1996 Rodionov and his comrades Andrej Troussow, Igor Jakowlew and Aleksander Schelesnow...
...were on duty as a border guard at a checkpoint in Nazran on the border between Cheetsenia and Ingushetia. The four of them stopped an ambulance - rather by chance - to pull it off check.
"Brigadier General" Ruslan Husseinowitsch Chaikharojew hid in the ambulance...
... a Chechen warlord, active in the "kidnapping business", with his bodyguards.
Rodionov and his comrades are overwhelmed and taken prisoner.
The Russian authorities initially assume that the four soldiers have deserted (four soldiers don't disappear that easily!) And there are even investigations into their relatives and house searches.
Only when “Brigadier General” Chaikharojew triumphantly brings his prisoners before an OSCE delegation does the truth become known...
The OSCE observers recognize severe signs of torture on the Russian soldiers...:
The “Brigadier General” explains verbatim to the OSCE observers: “They (the prisoners, M.R.) have the choice to stay alive if they change their beliefs. The one there (he points to Rodionov's note by M. R.) tried to run away. "
On May 23, 1996, his 19th birthday, the soldier Rodionov was ordered by Chaikharojew to convert to Islam in order to save his life.
Rodionov refuses to take off his neck cross, that it is a present from his mother...
... and is immediately beheaded, which the murderers have recorded on video tape ...:
In the meantime, Rodionov's mother Ljuba Rodionowa...
...has been looking for her son. She does not receive any support from the Russian army or the authorities (she is too poor to be able to bribe the right general or colonel).
Finally, the kidnappers get wind of Ljuba's search, report to her and, in return for a large sum of money that she has to borrow from relatives, they show her the grave of Jewgenij.
Lyuba Rodionova identifies the headless body of her son by means of his crucifix ’. His body is reburied Satino-Russkoye...
..., where the memorial stele shown above is located.
When the matter begins to get public, the Russian army hastily prepares the grave site and then asks the mother to take a photo ...:
Now this sad story of today could actually be over - but it is not, because now nationalist, ultra-nationalist and ecclesiastical circles are seizing the person of Rodionow, who - depending on one's point of view - is responsible for “the just cause”, “the holy fatherland "and the" right faith "died ...
After the circumstances of his death became known, Rodionow was awarded the title and medal "Hero of Russia" post mortem ...:
In the city of Kuznetsk, the capital of the region where he was born, an extremely kitschy monument is being erected, which commemorates Rodionow and shows him as a martyr with a halo ...:
In 2003 the Orthodox Church was asked to canonize Rodionow. Here is a demonstration by ultra-nationalists in Moscow, which is carried an icon that shows the soldier ...:
In February 2004, the Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church refused to canonize him on the grounds that too few details were known about his martyrdom and that there was too little evidence that he led a "godly life" before his death.
In reality, the church feared riots against "Tschornij" (= "black"), as the Caucasians living in Russia are predominantly and disparagingly called. The meaning of the word "Tschornij" corresponds to the US American "nigger" ...
The church process has been resumed since 2011 and is "open-ended".
Nevertheless, icons of Rodionov were soon awarded miraculous healings and the dispensing of sacred substances. Alexander Shargunov - a well-known priest - noted that this and the love of people are proof of his holiness...:
Patriarch Aleksey II of Moscow therefore blessed Rodionov's veneration.
However, the chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Dimitry Smirnov believes that "the question of the canonization of Yevgeny Rodionov will be resolved positively - it is a matter of time" ...
A school in Kuznetsk has now been named after the soldier (in the courtyard of which the monument shown above is located) and in ther village of Chankala in Chechnya there is a memorial church, which was consecrated on December 3, 2007- it is one of the very few Russian Orthodox churches in the predominantly Muslim Chechnya ...:
There are - to this day - several books, eight songs and ballads...
... and three documentaries about the murdered soldier. Visual artists have also adopted Rodionow ...:
If one were to ask Yevgeny Rodionow how he feels about all of this, he would probably answer that he would have much preferred to be a cook ...
By the way:
Rodionov's murderer Ruslan Chaikharojew is also dead!
There are two different versions of his death:
After the first, he died on September 8, 1999 in the hospital in Urus-Martan (Chechnya) from serious wounds he had previously sustained in combat with Russian troops.
According to the second (and more believable) version, he and his brother Said-Emin fell victim to an inner-Chechen blood revenge murder in his house in Bahmut (Chechnya) in August 1999.
On this commemorative stele in the Russian village of Satino-Russkoje In the Wolga Federal District, Republic of Tatarstan...
... we find the following inscription ...:
"Here lies a Russian soldier
Jevgenij Rodionow,
who defends the fatherland
and Christ did not give up
(and) in Bahmut on May 23, 1996
was executed. "
Who was Yevgeny Alexandrovich Rodionov? An open, very youthful and freckled 18-year-old face looks at us ...:
Rodionov was born on May 23, 1977 in the village of Chibirlei near the city of Kuznetsk (Penza Oblast). He was no longer able to fulfill his great professional dream of becoming a chef, because in 1995 he was drafted into the Russian army, which was at war in Chechnya.
After his basic training Rodionw...
... was deployed in the border security special unit number 479, troop number 2038, in Chechnya.
On February 13, 1996 Rodionov and his comrades Andrej Troussow, Igor Jakowlew and Aleksander Schelesnow...
...were on duty as a border guard at a checkpoint in Nazran on the border between Cheetsenia and Ingushetia. The four of them stopped an ambulance - rather by chance - to pull it off check.
"Brigadier General" Ruslan Husseinowitsch Chaikharojew hid in the ambulance...
... a Chechen warlord, active in the "kidnapping business", with his bodyguards.
Rodionov and his comrades are overwhelmed and taken prisoner.
The Russian authorities initially assume that the four soldiers have deserted (four soldiers don't disappear that easily!) And there are even investigations into their relatives and house searches.
Only when “Brigadier General” Chaikharojew triumphantly brings his prisoners before an OSCE delegation does the truth become known...
The OSCE observers recognize severe signs of torture on the Russian soldiers...:
The “Brigadier General” explains verbatim to the OSCE observers: “They (the prisoners, M.R.) have the choice to stay alive if they change their beliefs. The one there (he points to Rodionov's note by M. R.) tried to run away. "
On May 23, 1996, his 19th birthday, the soldier Rodionov was ordered by Chaikharojew to convert to Islam in order to save his life.
Rodionov refuses to take off his neck cross, that it is a present from his mother...
... and is immediately beheaded, which the murderers have recorded on video tape ...:
In the meantime, Rodionov's mother Ljuba Rodionowa...
...has been looking for her son. She does not receive any support from the Russian army or the authorities (she is too poor to be able to bribe the right general or colonel).
Finally, the kidnappers get wind of Ljuba's search, report to her and, in return for a large sum of money that she has to borrow from relatives, they show her the grave of Jewgenij.
Lyuba Rodionova identifies the headless body of her son by means of his crucifix ’. His body is reburied Satino-Russkoye...
..., where the memorial stele shown above is located.
When the matter begins to get public, the Russian army hastily prepares the grave site and then asks the mother to take a photo ...:
Now this sad story of today could actually be over - but it is not, because now nationalist, ultra-nationalist and ecclesiastical circles are seizing the person of Rodionow, who - depending on one's point of view - is responsible for “the just cause”, “the holy fatherland "and the" right faith "died ...
After the circumstances of his death became known, Rodionow was awarded the title and medal "Hero of Russia" post mortem ...:
In the city of Kuznetsk, the capital of the region where he was born, an extremely kitschy monument is being erected, which commemorates Rodionow and shows him as a martyr with a halo ...:
In 2003 the Orthodox Church was asked to canonize Rodionow. Here is a demonstration by ultra-nationalists in Moscow, which is carried an icon that shows the soldier ...:
In February 2004, the Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church refused to canonize him on the grounds that too few details were known about his martyrdom and that there was too little evidence that he led a "godly life" before his death.
In reality, the church feared riots against "Tschornij" (= "black"), as the Caucasians living in Russia are predominantly and disparagingly called. The meaning of the word "Tschornij" corresponds to the US American "nigger" ...
The church process has been resumed since 2011 and is "open-ended".
Nevertheless, icons of Rodionov were soon awarded miraculous healings and the dispensing of sacred substances. Alexander Shargunov - a well-known priest - noted that this and the love of people are proof of his holiness...:
Patriarch Aleksey II of Moscow therefore blessed Rodionov's veneration.
However, the chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Dimitry Smirnov believes that "the question of the canonization of Yevgeny Rodionov will be resolved positively - it is a matter of time" ...
A school in Kuznetsk has now been named after the soldier (in the courtyard of which the monument shown above is located) and in ther village of Chankala in Chechnya there is a memorial church, which was consecrated on December 3, 2007- it is one of the very few Russian Orthodox churches in the predominantly Muslim Chechnya ...:
There are - to this day - several books, eight songs and ballads...
... and three documentaries about the murdered soldier. Visual artists have also adopted Rodionow ...:
If one were to ask Yevgeny Rodionow how he feels about all of this, he would probably answer that he would have much preferred to be a cook ...
By the way:
Rodionov's murderer Ruslan Chaikharojew is also dead!
There are two different versions of his death:
After the first, he died on September 8, 1999 in the hospital in Urus-Martan (Chechnya) from serious wounds he had previously sustained in combat with Russian troops.
According to the second (and more believable) version, he and his brother Said-Emin fell victim to an inner-Chechen blood revenge murder in his house in Bahmut (Chechnya) in August 1999.
