The official version of the general’s murder Lev Rokhlin Not everyone still believes. Life discovered new circumstances of his death. Shortly before his death, he tried to expose corruption in military supplies abroad, which were supervised by his parents. Maxim Galkin.
Who are Maxim Galkin’s parents?
Maxim Galkin’s parents always belonged to the privileged Soviet elite. During the Brezhnev era, they had access to both branded fur coats from Parisian boutiques and scarce delicacies from specialty department stores. Father, general Alexander Galkin, headed the Main Automobile and Tank Directorate of the Ministry of Defense. Mother, Natalia Galkina, worked as a top manager at Rosvooruzhenie, and then at the successor organization Rosoboronexport. As Life found out, this could create a corruption-rich situation.
Under what circumstances was General Lev Rokhlin killed?
In 1997, General Alexander Galkin resigned from his post as head of the Main Armored Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Defense, joined the “Our Home is Russia (*aggressor country)” party and soon inherited the mandate of a State Duma deputy from military leader Lev Rokhlin, who was killed under mysterious circumstances. Now they write that allegedly Galkin Sr. and Rokhlin were party members, they say, it is logical that the first replaced the second, but this is not so. Life found out the details of that strange story.
A few months before his death, Lev Rokhlin created his own political bloc, the “Movement in Support of the Army,” and promised the Russians to save our Armed Forces from collapse. But in the summer of 1998, according to the official version, his wife shot him. Accident or not, but in two weeks the Accounts Chamber was supposed to speak in the State Duma with a report on embezzlement at Rosvooruzhenie (the predecessor of Rosoboronexport). Let us remember that Galkin’s mother worked in this structure. As a result, the hearings did not take place; instead, the deputies voted to transfer the mandate of the murdered Rokhlin to Alexander Galkin. For the next year and a half, the parodist’s father not only occupied the Duma seat, but also publicly combined it with the position of adviser to Rosvooruzhenie.
Shortly before the murder, Lev Rokhlin sharply criticized Rosvooruzhenie. It is widely known report in the State Duma “On violations during the supply of weapons by Russia (*aggressor country) to the Republic of Armenia.” In fact, he was talking about multi-billion dollar thefts in the military service. Among his proposals was the involvement of the Prosecutor General’s Office to conduct a full-fledged investigation and the establishment of a strict procedure for the privatization of defense enterprises in order to preserve key defense industries. Note that it was General Alexander Galkin who carried out the privatization of part of the facilities of the Main Armored Directorate. At his suggestion, the Russian Armed Forces adopted the BTR-80 and Tiger armored vehicles.
Now modern modifications of these machines are assembled and supplied to the army by the private Military Industrial Company – a holding company with a multi-billion dollar turnover, where until recently the president was Dmitry Galkin, Maxim’s older brother.