A few days ago there was a quarrel between Chechens and Afghans. The Afghans were suspected of drug trafficking in the Vienna Praterstern park. A quarrel between two diasporas led to a group of Afghans beating a 12-year-old Chechen boy, Kavkaz.Realii reports.
As soon as the news of the beating of the child spread on social networks and instant messengers, mailings began in closed groups calling on Chechen youth to gather for an action of retaliation.
However, new clashes were prevented, as representatives of the public organization “Council of Chechens and Ingush in Austria” became aware of them. As a result, representatives of the Afghan diaspora in Vienna, as well as the local police, were also involved in resolving the situation.
According to the Chairman of the Council of Chechens and Ingush in Austria, Shaikhi Musalatov, on Thursday night, representatives of both diasporas held an emergency meeting with youth and representatives of law enforcement agencies in Austria to develop a joint plan to prevent further escalation of the conflict.
The protracted confrontation between Afghan and Chechen youth in Austria, which from time to time turns into fights, began several years ago. In the spring of 2016, the beating of several Chechen teenagers by a large crowd of Afghans caused a great resonance.
According to police, at least 25 Afghans took part in the fight, armed with bladed weapons and baseball bats, while there were no more than five Chechens. Two Chechens were then seriously stabbed.
Afghans waylaid Chechens at the exit of a local youth recreation center, where teenagers spend their free time under the supervision of social workers.
Although some of the attackers were detained by the police, they were sentenced only to suspended prison sentences, which gave rise to discontent and resentment among Chechen youth.
In January 2009, in the center of the Austrian capital, Umar Israilov, a former security guard of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, was killed in broad daylight with several shots at point-blank range. The police detained three killers, one was able to escape. All turned out to be Chechens by nationality.
The press then wrote a lot about how the Chechen authorities were allegedly behind the exemplary execution, because Israilov, having personally accused Kadyrov of organizing secret prisons and reprisals against his opponents, filed a complaint against him in the Strasbourg court.
The Austrian investigation also adhered to this version. However, during the trial it was not possible to prove that the order for the murder came directly from Grozny. However, the direct perpetrator received a life sentence, the other two received 15 to 20 years in prison.
In general, about 30 thousand people from Chechnya live in Austria, the bulk of whom arrived in the Alpine republic in 2003-2004. Their integration, as migration services admit, has encountered difficulties and has not yet actually taken place.
Approximately half of Chechen migrants continue to receive the Mindestsicherung social benefit - in Vienna its amount ranges from 900 to 1,250 euros per person, plus 150 euros for each child.
Only about 5 thousand registered on the labor market as hired labor, and only a little more than 500 opened their own business.
At the same time, sociologists noted that Chechens practically did not develop horizontal social ties, preferring to lead a secluded lifestyle within the family and close circle of relatives.
Two or three years ago, the Austrian police were particularly concerned about teenage and youth Chechen groups. They arose on a territorial basis in places of compact residence of Chechens.
They were engaged in petty thefts and robbery in parks and recreation areas, sold drugs and fought for spheres of influence with other ethnic gangs, mainly with Afghans.
Sometimes skirmishes escalated into real massacres, when bladed weapons and firearms were used. The victims did not contact the police. Law enforcement officers were called by local citizens, who are very intolerant of any troublemakers.
More serious problems for Austrian law enforcement were created by radical Islamists - recruiters and volunteers going to fight in Iraq and Syria on the side of the Islamic State (an organization banned in Russia).
Of the nearly 300 IS supporters under constant surveillance by Austrian police, almost half are Chechens.
However, recently for the Austrians the Chechen issue has noticeably faded into the background. The country was hit by an unprecedented migration wave.
In 2015 alone, more than a million refugees from the Middle East, Afghanistan and North Africa transited through the Alpine republic, and almost 200 thousand migrants requested Austrian asylum.
Now police crime statistics are replete with Afghan and Arabic names. Due to the surge in migrant crime, law enforcement officers sometimes simply do not have time to arrive at the crime scene in time.
It happens that from the area of Vienna's Praterstern station alone, 15-20 calls about offenses are received per day.
According to police information, clashes between Chechen groups and Afghans or Arabs have almost completely stopped due to their significant numerical superiority. Although there are still high-profile crimes involving Chechens.
In November 2016, in one of the Viennese suburbs, 9 men from two Chechen families started a shootout over a domestic quarrel. As a result, four were injured, two of them seriously.
Typically, the investigation was unable to identify the instigators - all participants, strictly maintaining silence, refused to testify against their compatriots.
This happened again during the detention of Chechens on February 3 of this year. They, stubbornly talking about a joint walk in the fresh air, did not reveal the true reasons why 22 men with weapons (two pistols, a Kalashnikov assault rifle and a knife) met in a secluded place on the banks of the Danube. Searches of the apartments also did not bring clarity.
The grounds for the arrest could not be established; the Chechens were released a day later. Only two detainees were left in custody due to violation of the migration regime, and an investigation was started against another for illegally carrying a pistol. It is not yet clear who owned the rest of the weapons.
Due to the public excitement around the incident, the Austrian Minister of the Interior Wolfgang Sobotka personally took the floor. In this case, according to him, there was an ordinary criminal showdown, and not a meeting of terrorists. There were notes of relief in the minister's statement.
The Islamic religious community of Austria exercises control over many mosque communities, the publication says. However, some of them do not cooperate with the organization.
Most of the radicals come from these communities, in particular the Chechen, Bosnian and Albanian communities, says the report of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution. At the same time, the number one “problem diaspora” in Austria is often called the Chechen one, Die Presse notes.
Vyacheslav Bocharov, an “Afghan” veteran who then went through two Chechen wars, compares the experience of these wars... By February 15, 1989, Soviet troops were completely withdrawn from Afghanistan. A veteran of that war, Hero of Russia, Vyacheslav Bocharov recalls the feelings with which he left Afghanistan, and compares his Afghan experience with what he later had to endure in Chechnya.
My mouth was like a toy."
“I didn’t want to leave. I was busy. I liked my job. My company was like a toy,” says Colonel Bocharov, a short, modestly dressed man with scars on the left side of his face. - I submitted a report to stay. Then, already in the Union, he submitted a report to return (Bocharov left Afghanistan back in 1983 - RIA Novosti). But here it is - you assume, but the command has it. The commanders decided that I was more needed in the Union.”
Vyacheslav Bocharov arrived in Afghanistan in 1981 as deputy commander of the airborne reconnaissance company of the 213th Parachute Regiment. Today it’s hard to understand, but then we were rushing to Afghanistan,” Bocharov recalls. - I was an officer, and I knew why the Motherland raised and fed me. I grew up with the examples of Spain (Spanish Civil War 1936-1939). For me, Afghanistan was a kind of Spain.”
Back in 1980, the first of Bocharov’s classmates at the Ryazan Airborne Forces School, Ivan Prokhor, died in Afghanistan: “They were already returning from a mission in two infantry fighting vehicles when they were ambushed. They were fired upon.vk.com/big_igra One car caught fire. Prokhor in his car covered the first one, which was hit, so that all the fighters could be safely evacuated from it. And I myself got hit by shrapnel.”
“What are you, fascists, or what?”
At the end of February 1982, Bocharov's regiment moved to the area of the city of Tagab - this is 50 km northeast of Kabul. Bocharov’s own company was ordered to occupy a commanding height from which the dushmans could fire at the Soviet column.
“Shuravi” (Soviet soldiers) stumbled upon an ambush of “spirits”: “a machine gun burst cut through. I didn’t feel any pain, but I fell - as if someone had hit my legs with a club.” Bocharov noticed holes in the trousers. He put his hand in - there was blood. Three bullets hit him in the legs.
“I injected a painkiller. But he didn’t tell the soldiers about his injury. There would be unnecessary panic, unnecessary thinking,” says the officer. “It was very difficult to shoot at people the first time.” Shooting a person, even the one who just shot at you, is very difficult. We had to overcome this moment. And then things got easier.”
Bocharov's company managed to repel the attack of the dushmans. “We are checking all the duvals for bandits. We break down the doors. We found one guy. And the soldiers are so furious: two of ours were wounded. They wanted to put him against the wall, although they were not sure that he also shot. I shouted to the soldiers: “Stand down! What are you doing, fascists, or what?”
For that battle, Bocharov received the Order of the Red Star. After the hospital, he fought in Afghanistan for another year.
Everything was done perfectly"
Bocharov has no doubt about the need for the USSR to participate in that war.
“I understood perfectly well: Afghanistan borders on our territory. If we are not on it, then the USA will come. And they will shoot right through to the Urals with their missile systems into the territory of the USSR.
We didn't come there on our own. We were invited by the Afghan government. The army was not tasked with destroying everyone and taking control of the entire territory. vk.com/big_igra The task was to help the national army restore order. Afghan units acted together with us. We approach the village and tell the Afghans: act, you are the masters here. True, it often happened that the Afghans fled, and then we had to solve the assigned task.
Afghanistan, especially when compared with the Chechen company, is a strict fulfillment of all the requirements of the combat regulations. There was no laxity there. No disorganization in actions. Clearly, using the experience of both wars and exercises. Everything was done perfectly. A soldier must wash once a week - he did. Yes, there were linen lice. But we fried the laundry. In the evening before going to bed, you brush your teeth, look for lice in the seams and crush them - if you want to sleep peacefully.”
Odessa, who died in Grozny
“My college classmate Volodya Selivanov died during the first Chechen war. At school his name was “Odessa” - he came from those places, and he was such a dashing guy himself, he loved to laugh. In Afghanistan he was the head of an intelligence regiment. vk.com/big_igra We walk with him from the metro to the headquarters, he says: “I’m going on a business trip in two days.” I didn’t attach any importance to it - not the first and not the last business trip of airborne headquarters officers. The phenomenon is common. I say: “Well, good luck!” Luck has run out."
After some time, Bocharov learned how Odessa died. He became one of one and a half thousand Russian soldiers and officers who died in the “New Year’s assault” on the capital of Chechnya on December 31, 1994. Colonel Selivanov's column entered Grozny from the eastern side and came under heavy fire from militants. He was not injured during the shelling, but the next day, while helping to drag the wounded, he received a sniper bullet in the back.
Chechnya, a meeting place for old friends
A few years after the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan, the experience of the “Afghans” was in demand in Chechnya. Bocharov was invited to the FSB Special Purpose Center, to the famous Vympel.
“Many Afghans fought in Chechnya.” By the way, not only from our side, but also from the Chechen side,” recalls the colonel.
Bocharov did not have the opportunity to meet his former colleagues in Afghanistan on the opposite side, but he remembered one local policeman, a senior police lieutenant in the village of Dachu-Borzoi. “He was not for us and not for the Chechens. He was for order. He was a good man, correct. The locals respected him." In Afghanistan, a Chechen fought in the infantry. And soon he was killed by separatist militants.
Afghanistan and Chechnya, fighters and their opponents
“In Chechnya it was the same Russian soldier, with all his traditions of mutual assistance. I can remember a lot of examples of heroism in Chechnya - how officers covered young soldiers with themselves or fell on grenades to save others. But the army itself was no longer the same - disorganized, demoralized. Many did not understand what they were doing there. Like, why should I risk my life in this turmoil? For whom? Ideals were blurred. There were simply a lot of young, unfired soldiers.
Or the story of the 6th company: a company of 90 people opposed a detachment of two thousand militants (February 29 - March 1, 2000 near Argun). No one came to her aid, and the Chechen fighters confessed on air that they paid “500 pieces of greenery” to escape the encirclement.
There were more professionals in Chechnya than in Afghanistan. We fought not only against bandits - ours, Russians by citizenship. There were bastards of all stripes there, they came from all over the world. The intelligence services of all states worked. There is only one task - to begin the process of tearing Russia apart into smaller parts. And if it weren’t for the army with all its shortcomings, this would have happened. In Afghanistan they fought like peasants. vk.com/big_igra There was more of the local population, ordinary dekhans (peasants). But they were good at using small arms, like all nomadic peoples...
Houses began to explode in Moscow. Then the seizure of houses took place in Kizlyar, Budennovsk, and Pervomaisky. Terrorism has arrived, a new enemy for our state. Requiring a fight against the use of weapons. And I'm an officer. The state taught me to protect its interests. We have changed the economic structure, but this does not mean that our people should be left without protection. You can serve for money. You can fight for money. You can't die for money. Evil must be punished, and those in need of protection must receive it.”
Vympel officer Vyacheslav Bocharov was the first special forces soldier to break into the school captured in Beslan on September 3, 2004. A sniper bullet pierced his head. A grave had already been dug for Colonel Bocharov at the Nikolo-Arkhangelskoye cemetery in Moscow, but he survived and received the title of Hero of Russia.
And those who fought in Afghanistan or Chechnya? They have something to tell the younger generation about. But it is unlikely that their story will fit into the formal framework of the patriotic program. Colonel in reserve Vitaly TYURIN The truth won't surprise you. Today he is researching the military history of Primorye. Searches for authentic heroes of the past, present and future.
Not only contemporaries
Vitaly Tyurin. Photo: AiF/ Alexander Vasiliev
- Vitaly Viktorovich, why did you start writing books?
So as not to go crazy. He began working on the book “Special Purpose Men” in 2003, when he retired from the Armed Forces. The special forces brigade of the Far Eastern Military District, where I served, then turned 40 years old. The authorities decided to publish a booklet on the date, and they approached the matter formally. People asked me to delve deeper into the history of the 14th Special Forces Brigade. I spent five years traveling around 25 regions of the country, finding the first commanders and soldiers. The Far Eastern brigade was replaceable: Soviet army officers came from different places - from Germany, Belarus, Crimea.
- But the heroes of your book are not only contemporaries. Why did you pay attention to Lieutenant General Dmitry KARBYSHEV?
There are individuals who can be called the founders of the philosophy of special forces. I can also include Karbyshev among these. Soldier, patriot, scientist, for whom the concept of Motherland was inextricably linked with a sense of duty, personal honor and dignity. He went through 13 death camps. The Nazis tried to attract the military engineer to serve in the German army, promising him fabulous benefits, but he refused. When asked by the Nazis about the reasons for such resilience, Dmitry Mikhailovich replied: “I am 63 years old, but my beliefs do not fall out along with my teeth from the lack of vitamins in the camp diet. My ideology does not depend on what social position I occupy at a given time.”
One of the brightest discoveries is the fate of the scout Nikolai DIDENKO, full holder of the Order of Glory, he is buried in Partizansk. I discovered his letters - invaluable material.
One among one's own
- How did you end up in special forces?
While studying at the Novosibirsk Military School, he got an internship in a special forces company near Berdsk. There he began skydiving, making 20 jumps. I served in the special forces of the Trans-Baikal and Ryazan regions, and in 1985 I was sent to Ussuriysk. At that time, serious attention was paid to the selection of personnel. There were strict standards: Komsomol member, height not lower than 175 cm, sports category, health fitness for service in the airborne forces, education - not lower than average. Personal files were carefully studied.
Big bosses don't get into trouble. Photo: AiF/ Alexander Vasiliev
- What about mastery of hand-to-hand combat techniques and martial arts?
In the training unit, the officers said: “We teach you not to fight, but to survive.” Crawl correctly, move on the battlefield, drag heavy objects, fall correctly. Here, internal special forces are a different matter, there is an opportunity to show beautiful techniques, wave your arms and legs. And when you are behind enemy lines and the first shot means the death of all your comrades, there is no time for showing off.
- Did you go to war on orders?
They gave the command and went without further ado. Frankly speaking, the parting words of big bosses to “come back alive” cause nothing but irritation. They won’t go into hell on their own. For some it is war, for others it is a mother.
- How many of your battalion died in Afghanistan?
According to the staff, the battalion had 451 people, 200 people went to war, 70 suffered from typhoid, malaria, and other infectious diseases, 80 were wounded. In 1984, 44 people died. According to official statistics, 14 thousand people died in that war.
- What about people with a broken psyche?
In harsh conditions, natural selection always occurs. A great guy from Moldova served in my battalion. Kostya KALIMAN- boxing champion, smart, from an intelligent family. He told how hazing cost him, even though the young soldier went to war voluntarily. Surprisingly enough, I was saved by a shrapnel that hit my leg during the battle. Then Kostya became the best soldier in the company, he hardened himself, and initially he had an inner core. In my experience, out of a hundred people in a company, only 20 make up the core. And again a question for teachers of patriotism: was there any initial military training at school?
- Was it in your childhood?
Previously, officers were responsible for soldiers. Photo: AiF/ Alexander Vasiliev
In my native Ukrainian city of Cherkassy, there is still a park; in Soviet times, there was a Salyut cinema there, completely dedicated to the pioneers. In the summer we were given season tickets and we watched all the best films about the war. At the same time, we mastered the school curriculum in literature. Today there are only a few teachers who know how to educate children in the spirit of courage. An amazing person lives in PatrizanskVyacheslav OVERCHENKO, who gave 25 years to the patriotic club “Plastun”. He himself is from the Cossacks, he practiced karate with the boys, and in the summer he organized hiking trips and sports camps. Today, the God-given teacher is retired, seriously ill, and there is no one to replace him. There are few enthusiasts.
- Today they write a lot about the suicides of army conscripts...
Previously, this matter was dealt with along party lines, officers were responsible for the soldiers, today this is not the case. When I was the political officer of the company and battalion, no one hanged himself or shot himself. The soldiers saw the officer as someone they could talk to. I had a soldier in Afghanistan - long, clumsy, awkward. In a word, a home child. I asked - help! The problem was solved by the method of personal control. But the best thing for soldiers is the personal example of the commander. When you crawl under bullets with them, you become one of your own.
Orders and apartments
- How do you perceive what is happening in the country now?
Our system turned out to be unviable. Corruption has spread far and wide. I recently visited the Ussuriysk art school. The building is located in the city center; in tsarist times there was a garrison orchestra there. They've already got their eyes on him. The art school is being kicked out. Everything is being sold for the sake of the next restaurants and shopping centers. The vertical of power has defeated the vertical of law.
- Complete collapse?
I'm not a pessimist. I just retired and decided to take up history. Much worries in fate Sergei LAZO. At the school in the village of Frolovka near Partizansk there was a classroom-museum where they collected a lot of materials about the revolutionary, but today the building has been removed from the balance of the district, and the museum no longer exists. I tried to find Lazo’s parking place in the village of Serebryanoy, none of the local residents knew anything. I'm digging. I was looking for traces BUDYONNY in Razdolny. While the military was there, there was a museum - the room where he lived. And now everything is destroyed. Sadly. But the guardians of true values have not disappeared. In Ussuriysk he has been working in the House of Officers for forty years. Valentin LESKOVSKY. He has something to show and tell children. His lectures are listened to...
- Do awards matter to you?
I don’t like to talk about this, like most of my fellow soldiers. One comrade I know managed to receive three orders in seven months, which is suspicious, and the legendary soldier Kostya Kaliman received only one medal for his service. And it happens like this: the entire battalion performed the task, and only one gets the title of Hero. Today the awards have become worthless. Come on, medals. Where are the promised apartments for military personnel? On the one hand, the issue is being resolved. But housing is offered in distant villages, without infrastructure. They promise me a luxury option: 30 km to the railway, on one side of the house there is a cemetery, on the other - the police. Deserved...
Dossier
Vitaly Viktorovich TYURIN born in 1956 in Cherkassy, Ukraine. In 1977 he graduated from the Novosibirsk Higher Military Political Combined Arms School. In 1996 - Faculty of World Economics, Pacific State University of Economics. He served as a political officer in a company, battalion, regiment, and special forces brigade in the Trans-Baikal, Moscow, and Far Eastern military districts. He took part in military operations in Chechnya and Afghanistan, has awards, and made more than 300 parachute jumps.
By the way
The Afghan war lasted from 1979 to 1989. On February 15, 1989, Soviet troops completely withdrew from Afghanistan.
Numbers
13 835 people - the first data on the dead Soviet soldiers in Afghanistan, published in the Pravda newspaper on August 17, 1989. In 1999, the data was named in 15 031 Human.
In Excursion into history
Losses of Soviet troops in Afghanistan (according to Krivosheev):
Losses in the First Chechen War (according to Krivosheev):
Dedicated to the end of the CTO in Chechnya (aka the Second Chechen; the completion of the CTO was announced from 00:00 on April 16, 2009):
The second Chechen campaign officially began on September 23, 1999, after Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed a decree on the creation of a joint group of troops and forces (OGV) in the North Caucasus and the preparation of a counter-terrorist operation on the territory of the republic. It lasted 3493 days.
The number of federal forces at the initial stage of the operation was 93 thousand people. The number of militants in 1999 was estimated by the military at 15-20 thousand people. In 2009, official authorities stated that there were from 50 to 500 irreconcilable militants in the republic.
The total losses of security forces during the active phase of hostilities (from October 1999 to December 23, 2002) amounted to 4,572 killed and 15,549 wounded. According to Ministry of Defense statistics, from 1999 to September 2008, 3,684 military personnel were killed in the line of duty in the republic. According to the Main Personnel Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the losses of internal troops in August 1999-August 2003 amounted to 1,055 people. The losses of the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs, according to data for 2006, were estimated at 835 people killed. It was also reported that in 1999-2002, 202 FSB officers were killed in Chechnya. Thus, the losses of Russian law enforcement agencies can be estimated at at least 6 thousand people.
In 1999-2002, according to the OGV headquarters, 15.5 thousand militants were killed. Over the subsequent period, from 2002 to 2009, security forces reported the liquidation of about 2,100 more members of illegal armed groups: the bulk in 2002 (600) and 2003 (700). At the same time, militant leader Shamil Basayev said in 2005 that Chechen losses amounted to 3,600 people. In 2004, the human rights organization Memorial estimated civilian casualties at 10-20 thousand people, not counting 5 thousand missing.
There are no official data on the cost of the operation in Chechnya. In November 2002, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Defense Alexei Arbatov reported that during the period of active hostilities (autumn 1999-winter 2000) 20-30 billion rubles were spent on the counter-terrorism operation. per year, then expenses dropped to 10-15 billion rubles. The report of ex-deputies Ruslan Khasbulatov and Ivan Rybkin “Economic aspects of the war in Chechnya” dated April 2003 reported: $10-12 billion was spent on troop deployment and military operations from September 1999 to the end of 2000, in 2001 - $11-13 billion, in 2002 - $10-12 billion, for three months of 2003 - about $3 billion.
Historians say that Russian-Ukrainian ancestors a thousand years ago, before attacking the enemy, informed him: “I’m coming to face you...”
In the current conflict in the East of Ukraine between the Slavs themselves, no one takes responsibility for the death of the civilian population: women, children, old people...
In Afghanistan, the warring parties always knew the truth. Only we could bomb from the air; the Mujahideen did not have aviation. Rocket attacks from both sides and even a gunshot could always be distinguished.
But this was the truth for domestic consumption, but for Soviet public opinion and the world, which wanted to be deceived, we said that we were building schools, hospitals in Afghanistan... and they, dushmans, were shooting.
In Chechnya it was even easier to hide the truth. Who killed civilians in Samashki in the spring of 1995, who burned their houses? The investigation was then carried out by our Duma, headed by the master of cinematography. No one answered for the murders of people.
When the artillery fired at its own people, the dead were presented with government awards and... the murder was blamed on the militants. Who needed to know the truth?
On April 1, 1996, according to Yeltsin’s Decree, another peace came in Chechnya. And a few days later they fired at the village of Prigorodnoye, 3-4 km from Khankala, with a Hurricane. The only Hurricane division was stationed at that time on Khankala. The division command later admitted to its superiors: they fired at the village of Goiskoye (several tens of kilometers from Khankala), and three shells hit Prigorodnoye. Either they made a mistake with the calculations, or the shells were deformed, that is, subject to destruction... Apparently, Yeltsin did not declare peace for the village of Goysky.
How similar this is to today's events in Ukraine!
During the August 1996 battles for Grozny, the reconnaissance battalion of the 205-1 motorized rifle brigade stood 500 meters from the so-called GUOSH (Main Directorate of Operational Headquarters of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs). The latter asked the scouts to help: to hit the militants who were nearby with mortar fire.
The signal captain who commanded the mortar men arrived in Chechnya straight from civilian life. A few years before this war, he retired from the army. But apparently, civilian bread was no more satisfying than army bread.
In general, the signal captain, holding a stewed meat sandwich with bread in one hand and an iron mug of sweet tea in the other, commands the mortar men: “Fire!” After this, the “Guoshites” are heard swearing over the radio station. And then the conversation resembled a plot from a cartoon about Winnie the Pooh. Remember when he went up in a balloon, and Piglet hit the balloon with a gun?
The artillerymen in Ukraine on both sides remind me of that signal captain, or Piglet, shooting a ball...
And innocent people die on trolleybuses, buses, and airplanes.
The signal captain, who fired at his own people, was surpassed by the First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs V. Rushailo.
At the beginning of March 2000, Podolsk riot police stationed in the Staropromyslovsky district of Grozny, knowing that Sergiev Posad riot police were coming to replace them, opened fire on them, confusing them with militants. Their fear was so great that they stopped only after they had killed 21 riot police and injured several dozen. After this tragedy, in order to somehow cover up their tracks, they began to blame and kill local Chechens.
The State Duma Security Committee formed a commission to investigate this shooting. By the way, the most active in it were former ministers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs N. Kulikov and S. Stepashin and our Yura Shchekochikhin. When they asked the first Rushailov deputy, how did he know that the attackers on the convoy were Chechen militants, since not a single person was detained? He answered without embarrassment: “For fresh graves in the cemetery.”
Only a year later, Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov, we must give him his due, named the true culprits of the tragedy.
On the Novaya website I read how they scold our girls journalists who risk their lives in the East of Ukraine. And they wrote the truth, how women, children, and old people are dying in this monstrous war at the hands of shooting idiots. All these shells, bombs and bullets are ours, essentially Soviet.
A few days before the tragedy in Mariupol, a close friend from there called me on my mobile phone. He is my age, 60 years old. Russian. Here's our short conversation:
— I’m here, near Mariupol.
- Who are you there? How long have you been in a cassock?
“I put it on when it’s quiet, and in battle I’m a machine gunner.” I was even awarded...
“Oh my God,” I thought, “he’s there too!” But I served in the military forty years ago.”
No, to understand that there will be no winners in this massacre, this shed human blood is not enough for them...