Analysis of the indictment against Nikolai Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh (Part 3, “Torture and murder of captured Russian military personnel”)

The "Caucasian Knot" publishes the third part of the analysis of the indictment in the case of Nikolai Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh, conducted by the Memorial Human Rights Center. The third part of the analysis examined the actual circumstances of the crimes against captured Russian military personnel, set out in the indictment. All four parts of the analysis of the indictment were published on the "Caucasian Knot" in the "Documents of Organizations" section.

Since October 27, the Supreme Court of Chechnya has been considering the case of Ukrainian citizens Nikolai Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh, accused of participating in battles on the territory of the republic. According to the investigation, Karpyuk and Klykh were members of the UNA-UNSO organization created in the early 1990s, which was recognized as extremist in Russia. The defendants are accused of leading and participating in a gang, murder and attempted murder of two or more people during the first Chechen war. Karpyuk and Klykh deny their participation in the conflict in Chechnya and alleged torture during the investigation.

Analysis of the indictment in the case of members of the UNA-UNSO in Grozny. Part three: Torture and murder of captured Russian military personnel.

1. Torture and murder: indictment, 2015

The most serious crime described in the indictment is the torture and murder of captured Russian military personnel in Grozny in early January 1995. The description of this episode is repeated in the indictment many times and almost verbatim (pp. 20,31-32,85, 133, 144, 198,246, 257, 379, 383,440, 492, 496, 553, 605, 609-610, 666), and leaves the most difficult impression on any person who reads this document.

Below we present, as fully as possible, these truly horrifying descriptions of torture, abuse and murder set out in the indictment - but only insofar as this is important for subsequent analysis and comparison with other documents.

Here is a fragment from the testimony of Nikolai Karpyuk (quote from page 20, repeated on pp. 133, 246, 383, 496, 609-610):

« …He[Nikolai Karpyuk] took one of the captured Russian servicemen, took him out of the indicated room and, clasping his head with his left hand, while bending his arm at the elbow, held the soldier so that he could not resist. At this time, Igor Mazur pulled down the said soldier’s pants and, taking in his hands the handle of a shovel that was in this room, inserted its free end into the anus of this soldier. When Igor Mazur inserted this cutting into the soldier’s anus, the latter screamed. He (Karpyuk N.A.) at that time took out the knife he had with him (a blade approximately 10-12 cm long, sharpened on both sides, the knife had no blood flow, the knife had a stop) and, holding it in his right hand, delivered one blow (blade down) to the ridge between the shoulder blades of this soldier. After being stabbed with a knife, the soldier immediately stopped showing signs of life. After which, he (Karpyuk N.A.) went into the same room where the rest of the captured Russian soldiers were, and took out the first one standing closer to him. Next, he took a knife with a curved blade from one of the guys from UNA-UNSO who was there and with this knife struck one blow in the stomach of this soldier and, having turned the knife inside the stomach of this soldier, pulled it back, after which the soldier immediately fell and stopped serving signs of life. After which, Mazur I. brought out another soldier and mocked him in the same way, namely inserted a shovel handle into his anus. He (Karpyuk N.A.), in turn, together with someone from the UNA-UNSO, with whom he does not remember exactly, held the hands of this soldier on both sides when Mazur I. mocked him, thrusting a handle into his anus. At the indicated time, Mazur I. mocked one of the captured Russian soldiers, and it was he who put a home-made clamping ring on his finger, which he tightened by twisting and when squeezed around the finger, it was amputated. Thus, Mazur I. amputated all the fingers on both hands of this soldier, after which, using a knife he had with him, he cut the neck of this soldier and he died there. They shot all the other captured Russian soldiers. All the persons there, as well as he (N.A. Karpyuk), personally took part in the execution of these captured soldiers. ...»

The same is stated in the testimony of Stanislav Klykh ( With tr. 30-31, repeated on pp. 144, 257, 379, 492, 605):

« ...Muzychko Alexander began to interrogate and torture military personnel whose ranks he does not remember, he does not remember their regions either, they were there from the internal regions, i.e. Volga region, as it seems to him. The servicemen with their hands tied were forced to their knees, Alexander Malofeev began to hold one in a bent position, Muzychko picked up shovel handle, took off his pants, and that’s how he “realized” himself. After this, Malofeev killed this serviceman with a knife, but does not remember how, he cut his throat or his heart. In total, about thirty military personnel were captured, including those who were wounded, had minor injuries and were able to move independently. Those who could not move were shot, saved and used edged weapons. They were taken to the Presidential Palace building and were kept in the basement there. Captured soldiers and officers were interrogated there and military personnel were tortured until mid-January 1995. Muzychko Alexander, Malofeev, Mazur, Bobrovich, Karpyuk took direct part in the torture. In his tortures, Muzychko cut his fingers and ears, crushed his hands with the butt of a machine gun, and killed with shots from a machine gun. ...»

The key witness in the case, Alexander Malofeev, speaks about the same thing (page 85, repeated on pages 198, 311, 440, 553, 666):

« ...Malofeev A.V. in the presence of his defense lawyer, he testified that in January 1995 the said street was called Pervomaiskaya; instead of the Pension Fund building, in its place stood a five-story apartment building, in one of the empty apartments of which, in February 1995, he saw N.A. Karpyuk. and Mazur I.P. killed captured servicemen of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, driving knife blades into the spine by inserting wooden cuttings into the anus, firing shots to the head from a firearm...»

Let us note a strange circumstance: the terrible crimes described in detail in the testimony of the accused and the witness, as a result, the accused are FOR SOMEHOW NOT INCRIMINATED, and will not become the subject of trial in court. However, this testimony, when read at trial, will undoubtedly have an impact on the judge and jury.

So, according to the indictment, unknown Russian servicemen were tortured: in particular, several by rape with the handle of a shovel in the anus, and at least one by amputation of all fingers, and then killed. Is there any way to check this?

2. Torture and murder: official statements and media reports, 1995

The first reports from state media and statements by Russian officials about Chechen atrocities against captured Russian military personnel appeared quite late - in the second ten days of January. Such a long absence of statements on this “strong” topic might, at first glance, seem surprising.

These descriptions of the “atrocities of Chechen militants” were dominated by reports of the castration of prisoners.

The first message known to us appeared in the “Time” program of the ORT television channel on January 11, 1995 with reference to the “Disaster Medicine - Protection” hospital located in Mozdok:

“...at the ZASCHITA hospital... the day before... a helicopter delivered a terrible cargo - 22 Russian soldiers in plastic bags with cut out genitals. In the symbolic language of medieval cruelty, this means: we will slaughter you and your families. Dead, they were thrown into the location of our troops.

Together with representatives of the government press center, we stood there for about... 2 hours. We saw the tent where those 22 soldiers were at that time... All this is here, very close. After long negotiations and appeals to more and more senior authorities, we were not allowed to film. ...

The chief doctor here, Oleg GEVELING... took on that terrible load.

GEVELING: I went into this 26th helicopter, there were 22 plastic bags with boys. I can't. It was simply impossible to see it. ..."

Let us note that the head physician of the Zashchita hospital himself does not say anything about the nature of the injuries of the soldiers delivered by helicopter - an ORT journalist speaks about this behind the scenes.

The response appeared two days later: in the Vesti program, Deputy Minister for Nationalities and Regional Policy of the Russian Federation Kim Tsagolov said, in particular:

“……they recaptured our prisoners - they were all castrated. Every single one of them is castrated.”

The next day, January 14, 1995, during an emergency plenary meeting of the State Duma, dedicated to finding ways to politically resolve the Chechen crisis, Alexander Nevzorov said the same thing:

“The doctors who examined our prisoners of war whom we managed to recapture, military personnel from the internal troops, the doctors of the Ministry of Military Affairs found that all 12 prisoners of war whom we recaptured were castrated. Why are they silent about this?

Both statements apparently refer to those released on January 11 “as a result of military counterintelligence operations in GROZNY” 13 prisoners of war from the 503rd motorized rifle regiment. There were no other liberations in those days.

Nevzorov is either mistaken in attributing those released to the internal troops, or he is referring to prisoners taken from Grozny by human rights activist Viktor Popkov, among whom were two VV soldiers.

“...According to the testimonies of officers who went through Afghanistan, they did not hear about many of the atrocities committed in this war, even there. On the outskirts of the airfield there are three tents in which the bodies of the dead lie. It is impossible to look at this without shuddering. Throats were cut, noses and ears were cut off, scalps were removed, hands were chopped off, bodies were charred. (...)

ANDREY, his battalion of the 98th Ivanovo Airborne Division stormed the presidential palace and the Council of Ministers: There were 400 of us. ... Now less than a hundred people remain from the battalion. Two of my friends were captured wounded. A few hours later their bodies were thrown to us. One had his heart cut out. And the second one had his stomach ripped open and stuffed with shell casings. The guys who were in the battles confirm that our wounded were hung by their feet in the windows of the Council of Ministers and targeted fire was fired from behind their bodies. ..."

The day before, on January 23, the famous propagandist Mikhail Leontyev reported in an interview with the Ekho Moskvy radio station about the same thing - about the use of prisoners as “human shields”:

“... QUESTION: You say that... On January 9, the Chechens hung crucified Russian prisoners, it is unknown, alive or dead, on the windows of the Council of Ministers building. Please tell me, did you personally see it... or not?

LEONTIEV: The hanging prisoners were seen by officers from the division command post...”

Thus, from the second decade of January 1995, from Grozny (more precisely, from the “rear” of the Russian group of troops, from Mozdok and Severny airport) reports were received about “atrocities by Chechen militants.” However, we were talking about actions of a different kind than those described in the indictment in the case of Karpyuk and Klykh: about castration of prisoners (both bodies and living freed ones!), about crucifixion on window frames for use as a “human shield”, and etc.

3. Torture and murder: a critical analysis, 1995

A look at Russian media reports from January 1995 reveals that they have done much of the work necessary to analyze reports of torture and self-harm of Russian military personnel by militants.

Some journalists appealed to the reader’s intelligence:

“...These conversations are most similar to an internal defensive reaction. (...) The latest trend in self-justification is stories about the atrocities of the Chechens and mercenaries. None of the soldiers I met personally saw them, but their best friends told them: Chechens cut their ears and noses, castrate them, and crucified prisoners on the windows of the presidential palace. (...)

And I recommend that everyone who believes in crucifixions on windows try to perform a useless and risky operation themselves. Take five-inch nails, a hammer, a prisoner, go up to at least the third floor of a bullet-ridden and burning building, go to the window and quickly nail the resisting (how could it be otherwise?) person to the broken window frame. ..."

This is convincing reasoning cannot, however, serve proof m. Another thing is more important: it is known that ALL 19 prisoners held in the basement of the Council of Ministers were transferred from there unharmed to the basement of the hairdresser on Avenue. Lenin between January 13 and 16, 1995, after the bombing of the Council of Ministers building with concrete-piercing bombs, when the basement ceilings began to collapse

Concluding this purely preliminary analysis of the plot with the crucified prisoners, we present excerpts from Sergei Kovalev’s interview with the NTV channel “Itogi” program on January 29, 1995:

“...QUESTION: Do you have self-confidence in the sense that you are confident that you have a full amount of information, comprehensive information in order to categorically state that... that there are no cases of human rights violations by Chechens against Russian prisoners and so on? ... It is not by chance that I ask you this question, because they very often talk about castrated Russian soldiers, about the fact that mutilated corpses were found, about the fact that they saw crucified Russian prisoners in the windows of the presidential palace.

KOVALEV: Even CHERNOMYRDIN told me this. ... And yet this is not true. ...

I was in the presidential palace at the same time that people were allegedly crucified there.I cannot vouch that I saw and examined all the windows of the presidential palace, but I met hundreds of people there, I could not help but know this if it were so.

I admit that there are such cases on the Chechen side, but no one knows them for certain.

...I will talk now to the mutilated corpses. By the way, I was the one who found them. It was not they, but me, our group that discovered them, those three corpses of border guards that were found in the village of ASSINOVSKAYA. It was we who informed the military command, in particular the command of the border troops, that there were dead.

During this examination, not only Lieutenant General BORDUZHA was present, but also a military doctor. I asked the doctor: can you tell me how these injuries were caused and when, during life or after death? He said: no, I can’t do it without a forensic medical examination..

QUESTION: Why do military doctors in MOZDOK refer to such cases?

KOVALEV: Those military doctors with whom I spoke in MOZDOK, when I asked them, they say castrated prisoners of war passed through your hospital, the chief doctor of the largest hospital in MOZDOK said: “This is not true, in general I have heard about such cases. I tried to address those who were named as witnesses to these cases. And not once to the question - you saw it yourself - never received the answer “yes.”

As we see, reports about “crucified prisoners” even then, in January 1995, were seriously doubted. The same can be said about statements about “castrated soldiers.”

Thus, the very next day after Alexander Nevzorov’s speech in the State Duma quoted above, Radio Russia journalist Valery Kuts tried to verify his information:

“...12 people, torn from Dudayev’s captivity, could have told about torture, and not only me, but the entire press and the public blinked. Where are victims treated? Who examined it, when? I asked the head of the regional health department, Nikolai SHIPKOV, to answer these questions. He listened in bewilderment several times to the quote I gave about castrated former prisoners of war who are or were in Minvody. After a thorough check, it turned out that in general Stavropol doctors in the region did not touch a single soldier wounded in CHECHNYA. …»

Likewise, the circumstances mentioned above in Kim Tsagolov’s statement on the castration of prisoners dated January 13, 1995 were not confirmed at the highest departmental level:

“...The facts of abuse of prisoners of war by Russian soldiers in CHECHNYA, the head of the main military medical department of the RF Ministry of Defense, Colonel General of the Military Medical Service Ivan CHIZH, did not confirm, but did not deny either.

CHIZH: We didn’t have people like that come to our hospital, if that happens…»

“On the ground” - in Mozdok, through which all the wounded servicemen and the bodies of the dead passed - such information (as well as reports of scalped corpses, etc.) was refuted by the head of the hospital, Colonel Popov:

“...When asked whether scalped and castrated people were taken to the hospital, the answer was negative. "The military prosecutor's office ordered us to monitor these facts... But so far there have been no such cases in two months." The doctor confirmed that there were no facts of intentional injury. ..."

Thus, we can say that then, in January 1995, the media fulfilled their mission. It turns out that journalists visited the main places where prisoners were kept (Reskom, Sovmin, Minutka), and the sum of their direct evidence gives a fairly complete picture. Journalists found out that all the wounded and the bodies of the dead passed through the military medical department, which was tasked with identifying all cases of torture or post-mortem mockery of corpses, and reporting this to the military prosecutor's office. Journalists interviewed many employees of this system and related structures, from the head of the State Military Medical University, General Chizh, to the head of the Zashchita hospital, Oleg Geveling (quoted by us at the beginning - it was his direct speech that the journalist accompanied with words about “castrated prisoners”):

“...Some media outlets are disseminating reports of alleged cases of abuse (gouging out eyes, castration, etc.) of wounded and captured Russian military personnel in Chechnya.

Such statements were made by journalist Alexander Nevzorov and Deputy Minister for National Affairs Kim Tsagolov. We turned to military doctors and officers and soldiers released from captivity for confirmation.

The head of the Main Military Medical Directorate, Major General of the Medical Service Ivan CHIZH, said that doctors have not encountered a single similar case.

The head of the Burdenko hospital, Major General of the Medical Service Vyacheslav KLYUZHEV, and the chief physician of the EMERCOM hospital located in Mozdok, Oleg GEVELING, told our correspondents by phone that they “did not find such injuries in the wounded and dead Russian military personnel.”

Lieutenant Colonel Yuri KLOPTSOV, Captain Viktor MYCHKO, Lieutenant Maxim YASCHENKO, Junior Sergeants Gafuan MUKHAMADIEV and Ivan GOLIKHIN, Private Marat BAIMUKHAMEDOV, recently released from captivity, responded that they had not encountered such facts, they had not heard stories about it.

Similar answers were given by Galina SEVRUK, deputy chairman of the Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers, who had just returned from Chechnya, and Viktor POPKOV, who spent three weeks in Grozny as a free journalist.” .

Thus, it can be argued that the statements of Messrs. Nevzorov and Tsagolov, the reports of Channel One and other media, not only did not receive confirmation, but were convincingly refuted. Information about the “castration of prisoners” and other similar horrors is refuted, including by those to whom Channel One refers.

More importantly, there is no information about the bodies, the injuries of which correspond to the testimony of the defendants Karpyuk and Klykh, or the convicted Malofeev.

However, was something similar found later? After all, bodies were removed from the ruins of Grozny until March 1995.

It turns out there is an answer to this question.

4. Torture and murder: official information, 1995

After statements by officials and propagandists about torture and brutal murders of Russian military personnel in Grozny, deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation sent relevant requests to the competent departments.

Subsequently, we managed to receive an official response from the Main Military Medical Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, from the above-mentioned Ivan Chizh:

GVMU MO RF No. 161/2/1/1425 dated 03/15/1995

on No. 5.6/183 dated 03/02/1995

FS RF, State Duma, ZOLOTUKHIN B.A.

Dear Boris Andreevich!

I inform you that there have been no registered cases of military personnel from troops stationed in Chechnya entering military medical units and institutions of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation who were subjected to self-harm (including castration).

At the same time, as of March 10 this year. there were 9 cases of receipt of bodies of dead military personnel with traces of torture, torture and castration (of which 5 were from military units of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation).

Head of Main Department

Colonel General of Medical Service

The response received by Boris Zolotukhin from the military medical department of the North Caucasus Military District clarifies this general statement from a higher authority:

VMU SKVO No. 30/243 dated 03/22/95

FS RF, State Duma, ZOLOTUKHIN B.A.

In response to your appeal to the commander of the North Caucasian Military District for No. 5.6/182 dated March 2, 1995, on behalf of I inform you: a list of military personnel whose forensic medical examination revealed signs of mockery of a corpse.

1. Date of study: 01/10/1995

Damage found:

Intravital single through bullet wound of the right half of the chest with damage to the lung and hemorrhage into the pleural cavity.

Two post-mortem perforating gunshot wounds to the abdomen, caused by shots from a point-blank range.

The left eyeball was posthumously excised with a sharp object.

Sperm cells were found in the rectum [as in the text of the answer – Human Rights Center “Memorial”].

2. Date of research: 01/15/95

Rank, full name of the deceased: row. military unit 83483 engineer battalion XXX

Damage found:

Lifetime mine-explosive injury with damage to the internal organs of the chest and abdomen.

The right testicle was excised posthumously.

3. Date of research: 01/16/1995

Damage found:

Two intravital gunshot through bullet wounds of the chest with damage to the lungs and heart.

Both testicles were excised posthumously with a sharp object, and incisions were made into the penis. Multiple post-mortem gunshot injuries to the torso and limbs. Post-mortem through and through stab injuries on the forearms with crushing of soft tissues by a hard object under the influence of the gravity of one’s own body (traces of hanging on hooks). Multiple chopped post-mortem injuries on the body. Traces of intravital contact burns on the chest and lumbar region.

4. Date of research: 01/17/1995

Rank, full name of the deceased: row. ks military unit 2446 XXX

Damage found:

Two intravital gunshot wounds to the chest.

Multiple post-mortem gunshot injuries to the torso, head and limbs.

Post-mortem through and through stab wounds on the forearms (traces of hanging on hooks).

5. Date of research: 01/18/1995

Military rank, full name of the deceased: lt of military unit 2446 XXX

Damage found:

A single through-and-through gunshot wound to the head with a doublet from a hunting rifle from a point-blank range.

Multiple post-mortem gunshot injuries to the torso and limbs.

Through-stab post-mortem injuries on the legs [(traces of hanging on hooks)].

6. Date of research: 02/16/1995

Military rank, full name of the deceased: military unit 11731 ХХХ

Damage found:

Severe damage to the pelvic and abdominal organs as a result of a direct hit from a shot from an under-barrel grenade launcher.

Both ears were excised posthumously with a sharp object.

7. Date of research: 02/07/1995

Rank, full name of the deceased: ml.s-t 129 MSP XXX

Damage found:

Mine blast injury.

8. Date of research: 02/07/1995

Rank, full name of the deceased: ml.s-t 129 MSP...

Damage found:

Mine blast injury.

The right ear was excised posthumously.

9. Date of research: 03/06/1995

Rank, full name of the deceased: unidentified

Damage found:

Mine blast injury.

The right ear was excised posthumously.

The military medical department of the North Caucasus Military District does not have any other data.

Sincerely

head of the military medical department of the North Caucasus Military District

medical colonel

A.DEVIATKIN

An analysis of these responses shows that all bodies of military personnel delivered from Chechnya - both the Armed Forces, the Internal Troops, and the Federal Border Service - were examined in the system of the Military Medical Directorate of the North Caucasus Military District. Thus, before us exhaustive list of bodies with traces of intravital torture and posthumous mockery as of March 1995

The first of the examined bodies seems to belong to the victim of some maniac. Let us note an important circumstance for us: the pathologists of the VMU conscientiously examined, in particular, the condition of the anus of the corpses.

About castration - but posthumous! - can be said in relation to the second and third examined bodies.

Regarding bodies Nos. 3-5 with traces of “hanging on hooks,” one could assume that they belong to “crucified paratroopers.” In fact, we are talking about border guards whose bodies were discovered on January 13, 1995 in Art. Assinovskaya, the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation S.A. Kovalev, who accompanied him E.M. Albats, M.A. Gessen and A.Yu. Daniel. As it turned out, these three border guards mistakenly drove into Assinovskaya, where they were shot point-blank from an ambush (two of them with a hunting rifle). They continued to shoot at the bodies of the dead lying on the ground from various types of weapons, stabbed them with bayonets, and mocked the corpses. Then the bodies were dragged with the help of a tractor (hence the “traces of hanging on hooks”) to the outskirts of the village.

Thus, all these nine people died in battle or during an ambush attack, had intra-life gunshot wounds or mine-explosive injuries, and traces of post-mortem mockery.

Bodies with traces of intravital torture, in particular, the amputation of fingers, or bodies with signs of rape with the handle of a shovel (which could not but lead to damage, if not rupture, to the rectum), did not pass through the system of the military medical department of the North Caucasus Military District.

We can say with a high degree of confidence that such bodies simply did not exist during the period we are considering.

This casts doubt on the reliability of the testimony of the accused, who exposed themselves in brutal torture - testimony that Karpyuk and Klykh later refused, stating that they gave it under the influence of violence applied to them.

The investigation acted very carefully, not charging Nikolai Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh for these episodes, and thus avoiding their examination in court. Above we partly tried to correct this misunderstanding.

Thus, there is reason to believe that the accused were forced to incriminate themselves and take credit for the torture and murder of a group of Russian servicemen. It is for this reason that for this episode, described in detail in the testimony of the accused, the investigation did not provide any objective evidence in the indictment, did not qualify it in any way, and did not impute it to the accused. It is obvious that these testimonies of the accused are present in the indictment solely for the purpose of giving Klykh and Karpyuk the most negative image and characterization.

Notes:

1. Ostankino, “Time”, January 11, 1995, 21:00, report by Prokofieva.
2. Russian television, Vesti, January 13, 1995, 20:00, report by Panova.
3. Russian television, “Parliamentary Week”, January 14, 1995, 10:00.
4. There were no large-scale exchanges of prisoners or forcibly held persons that day, but this group of prisoners can be confidently identified. According to Professor Benik Bagratovich Bagdasaryan, who was transporting released prisoners from Grozny on January 11, 1995, the day before about a dozen captured Russian soldiers remained in the basement of the 2nd boarding school, among them seven wounded. There were no militants there - they retreated after the battle (information from O.P. Orlov, see 2nd Grozny diary, l. 17). On the same day, a number of information programs (Radio Russia, “News”, January 11, 1995, 13:00; Russian Television, “Vesti”, January 11, 1995, 20:00; Ostankino, “Vremya”, January 11 1995, 21:00) with reference to an interview with the head of the Public Relations Center of the Federal Counterintelligence Service, Alexander Mikhailov, to the INTERFAX agency that “last night, as a result of military counterintelligence operations in GROZNY, 13 prisoners of war from the 503rd motorized rifle regiment of the 19th motorized rifle division were released Russian army." The names of those liberated by the Memorial Human Rights Center are known.
5. “Komsomolskaya Pravda”, January 24, 1995, p.1. Olga Gerasimenko, Vasily Ustyuzhanin. “On the 41st day of the war, the first wedding took place in Grozny”
6. “Echo of Moscow”, “Interview”, January 23, 1995, 20:30, 22:10.
7. “Obshchaya Gazeta”, January 26, 1995, p.5. Alexander Mnatsakanyan. "More difficult than death"
8. Wed. two journalistic testimonies, the first about a meeting with 19 prisoners in the Council of Ministers: “...in the building of the Council of Ministers down the steps, to where, as I find out as we move along, the Russian prisoners are placed. It turns out there are 19 of them, ... It’s pitch black, I light a match to talk with them, but the flame immediately highlights the face of a man in an astrakhan hat, who suddenly categorically refuses to allow us to talk with the soldiers. Thirty-eight eyes look at us with longing and hope. “Are there any wounded or beaten among you?” - I ask. “No,” they answer. “And what will happen to them?” - I transfer the question to the astrakhan hat. “In any case, we guarantee their lives, but the Russian authorities hardly,” he answers sharply. I bring the match closer to the prisoners. Boys, 18-19 years old, with animal fear in their eyes. ..." (Moskovsky Komsomolets, January 19, 1995, p. 2. A. Kolpakov, "War and Cheer") ... and at Minutka, in the basement of the hairdresser's, where on January 16, 1995 Alexander spoke with 19 prisoners Minkin and Vyacheslav Grunsky: "...before that they sat in the basement of the Council of Ministers until three vacuum bombs broke through the basement. They had to urgently evacuate. Now they are here, on Lenin Avenue, under the hairdresser. According to Usman Imaev, he has already called the parents of these soldiers more than once , offering to personally pick up his sons from captivity...” (“Moskovsky Komsomolets,” January 18, 1995, A. Minkin, “The Prime Minister is in an interesting position”; Moskovsky Komsomolets, January 20, 1995, pp. 1-2, A. Minkin, “Honest Yeltsin said what he thought”; NTV, “Segodnya”, January 16, 1995, 22:00, report by V. Grunsky). Thus, a group of prisoners of 19 people was taken out of the basement of the Council of Ministers. for a Minute. None of them were “crucified on the window frames.” Regarding all the captured soldiers mentioned in these reports, it is known that they were subsequently released.
9. Members of Kovalev's group were in the area of ​​the Presidential Palace and the Council of Ministers in Grozny in January 1995, when negotiations were underway and during a 48-hour ceasefire
10. NTV, “Itogi”, January 29, 1995, 21:00.
11. Radio Russia, “News”, January 15, 1995, 15:00.
12. Russian television, Vesti, January 17, 1995, 14:00.
13. “Moskovsky Komsomolets”, February 2, 1995, A. Kolpakov, “The first operation was appendicitis. White robes of war and peace."
    
14. “Obshchaya Gazeta”, January 19-25, 1995, p.2, “No one has heard about this, except...”
15. For obvious reasons, we have omitted information about the identities of the victims.
16. Similar requests were sent to official structures in the future.
17. It should be noted that here we were talking only about the initial period of the First Chechen War, about its first weeks and months. Subsequently, brutality occurred, and, for example, in May 1996, captain of the second rank Vladimir Shcherbakov, head of the 124th Special Medical Laboratory, where the bodies of all military personnel killed in Chechnya were delivered, recorded 42 cases when the heads and genitals were cut off from the bodies of dead military personnel organs, hands, gouged out eyes, etc. In conclusion, let us quote the response to State Duma deputy Rybakov from the Main Military Prosecutor's Office for No. SU-300 dated June 20, 1996, to ref. No. 3.1-1361 dated June 13, 1996: The Caucasian Interregional Prosecutor's Office is investigating criminal cases of murders of federal troops, involving facts of abuse and mockery of victims committed by members of armed gangs. On March 5, 1995, on the territory of the UPTK "Spetsstroy RF" in Grozny, an armed attack was committed on military personnel of military unit 54249. Lieutenant M. and junior sergeant P. were taken hostage, and servicemen K., G., A. and V. were shot on the spot. Subsequently, the headless bodies of M. and P. were discovered outside the city. In July 1995 At the market in GROZNY, unidentified persons killed private military unit 22033 G., on whose corpse traces of cruel torture were found, including traumatic amputation of the genital organ. Deputy Chief Military Prosecutor, Lieutenant General of Justice S.E. GAVETO

Today, the Federal Security Service reported that as a result of an operation in the Shchatoi region of Chechnya, an FSB special group captured a huge video archive. The militants scrupulously recorded all their actions on film. While preparing this material for broadcast, we tried to reduce all the scenes of violence captured

action films, to a minimum, however, we do not recommend watching this material for people with weak nerves and children.

This is only a small part of the videotapes captured by FSB special forces in one of the villages of the Shatoi region of Chechnya. There are 400 tapes in total: 150 from the archive of an unknown Chechen television studio and 250 from the personal archive of Aslan Maskhadov. 1200 hours of video footage: torture and execution of Russian soldiers, interrogations with bias, attacks on convoys of federal forces. This is a look from the inside, through the eyes of militants.

We have deliberately declined to make any comments on what you are about to see. It is impossible to comment on this. The films speak for themselves. We will add words to what you cannot watch from a certain point, either for ethical or moral reasons: after seeing the excerpts, you will understand why.

Footage from three years ago: this shooting covered television screens around the world. Execution of the verdict of the Sharia court. After the Shariah security investigation. Public shooting. This is just what made it to the screens.

Now let's go back: This man is accused. The investigator asks him a series of questions. What he is accused of is unknown, we are showing the system itself. The system of inquiry that foreign mercenaries brought with them.

Personnel: interrogation with special passion.

Everything is recorded on camera. Details. The investigation did not last long. Same cassette. You can see from the dates on the screen: from the investigation to the verdict exactly 10 days. The verdict is public execution.

Footage: execution. Autumn 1999. It is impossible to say where exactly the action takes place. According to some signs, this is near the village of Tukhchar in Dagestan. There are 6 federal soldiers under the militants' feet. In a few minutes everyone will be killed: the murder weapon is in the hands of this bearded man in camouflage. Only one tries to escape. They catch up and shoot.

Shots: resisting, running away, catching up, shots are heard.

For us, these shots are medieval savagery. But for those who kill Russian soldiers, this is a routine, an everyday occurrence. For 2 Chechen companies, this became the rule of law for them. The Russian investigation and trial will not be so cruel. The maximum that the executioners face is life imprisonment. The court can sentence a sadist, murderer and war criminal to death. But in the Russian Federation there is a moratorium on its implementation; this was one of the main conditions for Russia’s admission to the Council of Europe.

Be careful! People with weak mental health should not read this post!
These are the same soldiers, dear Russian boys, about whom the abomination Shevchenko said that they were not Russian, but Yeltsin.

Original taken from uglich_jj in Tukhchar massacre (18+).

1.Forgotten Platoon

It was September 5, 1999. Early in the morning, a gang of Chechens attacked the village of Tukhchar in Dagestan. The militants were commanded by Umar Edilsultanov, also known as Umar Karpinsky (from the Karpinka district in Grozny). Opposing them was a platoon of senior lieutenant Tashkin from the 22nd brigade of internal troops: an officer, 12 conscripts and one infantry fighting vehicle.

They dug in on a commanding height above the village. In addition to the soldiers, there were 18 more Dagestani policemen in Tukhchar. They were dispersed throughout the village: at two checkpoints at the entrances and at the local police station.

One of the Dagestani checkpoints was right next to Tashkin, at the foot of the high-rise building. True, Russians and Dagestanis hardly communicated or interacted. Everyone for themselves. Muslim Dakhkhaev, head of the local police department, recalled:

“Upstairs, at the height, are the positions of the internal troops, and below is our police post. They - two posts - seemed to exist separately. For some reason, the military did not really make contact with the local population and the local police. They were suspicious of our attempts to establish contacts... There was no interaction between the police and the military. They buried themselves in the ground and protected themselves.".

They buried themselves in the ground and protected themselves...

Umar had about 50 people in his gang, all Wahabbis were fanatics waging jihad. By fighting “for faith,” they hope to go to heaven. Unlike Christianity, in Islam paradise has an erotic meaning. A man in heaven will have 72 wives: 70 earthly women and 2 houris (special virgins for afterlife sex). The Quran and Sunnah repeatedly describe these wives with all the details. For example, here:

“Allah will not allow anyone into Paradise without marrying him to 72 wives, two will be virgins (gurias) with large eyes, and 70 will be inherited from the inhabitants of Fire. Each of them will have a vagina that gives pleasure, and he (the man) will have a sexual organ that will not descend during intercourse.”(Sunan Ibn Majah, 4337).

But a Muslim still needs to get to heaven with vaginas. It's not easy, but there is a sure way - to become a martyr. Shahid goes to heaven with a guarantee. All his sins are forgiven. The funeral of a martyr is often held as a wedding, with expressions of joy. After all, consider the deceased to have gotten married. He now has 72 vaginas and a perpetual erection. The cult of death and afterlife sex in the untouched brains of a savage is a serious matter. This is already a zombie. He goes to kill and is ready to die himself.

Umar's gang enters Dagestan. The journey to heavenly vaginas has begun.

One of the militants walked with a video camera and filmed everything that was happening. The film, of course, is terrible... Three life sentences have already been handed down based on it.

On the left is the leader (Umar), on the right is one Arab from his gang:

At 6:40 am the militants attacked the village. First, the farthest (from the high-rise) checkpoint, then the village police department. They quickly occupied them and went to the height where Tashkin’s platoon was. The battle here was hot, but also short-lived. Already at 7:30 the BMP was hit by a grenade launcher. And without its 30-mm automatic cannon, the Russians lost their main trump card. The platoon left its position. Carrying the wounded, they went down to the checkpoint to the Dagestanis.

The post was the last center of resistance. The Chechens attacked it, but could not take it. It was well fortified and allowed to defend for some time. Until help arrives or the ammunition runs out. But there were problems with this. No help was forthcoming that day. The militants crossed the border in several places, the Lipetsk riot police were surrounded in the village of Novolakskoye, and all forces were thrown into rescuing him. The command had no time for Tukhchar.

The defenders of the village were abandoned. There was also no ammunition for a long battle in Tukhchar. Soon envoys from among the local residents came from the Chechens. Let the Russians leave the checkpoint, otherwise we will start a new assault and kill everyone. Time to think - half an hour. The commander of the Dagestanis, Lieutenant Akhmed Davdiev, had already died in a street battle in the village at that time; junior sergeant Magomedov remained in charge.

Dagestani commanders: Akhmed Davdiev and Abdulkasim Magomedov. Both died that day.

After listening to the Chechens' ultimatum, Magomedov invites everyone to leave the checkpoint and take refuge in the village. Local residents are ready to help - give them civilian clothes, hide them in their homes, take them outside. Tashkin is against it. Magomedov is a junior sergeant, Tashkin is an officer of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Tashkin is much older in rank. A conflict arises, escalating into a fight...

In the end, Tashkin agreed to leave the checkpoint. Tough decision. At this point, the organized defense of the village stopped. The defenders split into small groups, hiding in attics, basements, and corn fields. Then everything depended on luck, some were lucky to leave, others were not...

Of the Dagestan policemen, most were unable to leave Tukhchar. They were captured. According to some sources: 14 people out of 18. They were herded to a village store:

And then they took me to Chechnya. From there, from the zindans, their relatives and intermediaries bought them out months later.

The police commander Abdulkasim Magomedov, who insisted on leaving the checkpoint, died. He did not want to give up and was killed in battle. In Tashkin’s platoon of 13 people, 7 survived. They were sheltered by local residents and helped to reach their own. Tashkin himself and four soldiers with him were blocked in the barn of local resident Chelavi Gamzatov. They were asked to surrender. They guaranteed life or they would throw grenades at us. They believed. On his way out, Tashkin gave Gamzatov a photograph of his wife and daughter, which he carried with him...

Photo from the local school museum. The same barn (with a burnt roof) is in the background.

The Chechens took another (sixth) prisoner from the house of local resident Attikat Tabieva. It was the shell-shocked and burnt mechanic-driver of the BMP Alexei Polagaev. Finally, Alexey gave the Dagestan woman a soldier’s badge and said: “What will they do to me now, mother?...”

This monument stands today on the outskirts of the village of Tukhchar in memory of the six fallen Russian soldiers. Stella, cross, barbed wire instead of a fence.

This is a “people's memorial” created on the initiative of village residents, primarily teachers from the local high school. Neither the Russian Ministry of Defense nor the federal authorities participated in the creation of the monument. Relatives of the victims did not respond to letters and never came here. Information was collected by local residents bit by bit.

There are errors on the monument: grammatical (from the point of view of the Russian language) and factual. Tashkin’s birthplace is indicated as the village of “Valadyarka”:

In fact, this is Volodarka near Barnaul. The future commander attended school there. And he was originally from the neighboring village of Krasnoyarka.

Also, one of the dead is incorrectly indicated on the monument:

Anisimov is a guy from the Armavir special forces (Vyatich detachment), he also died in Dagestan in those days, but in a different place. They fought at the TV Tower height, 10 kilometers from Tukhchar. The infamous height where, due to the mistakes of the generals at the headquarters, an entire special forces detachment died (including from attacks by their own aircraft).

There were no special forces in Tukhchar, there were ordinary motorized rifles. One of them, Lesha Paranin, the gunner of that same infantry fighting vehicle on the high-rise, looked similar to Anisimov.

Both met a terrible death; the militants violated their bodies both here and there. They earned money for their vaginas. Well, then, thanks to the light hand of one journalist, confusion arose, which migrated to monuments and memorial plaques. The mother of special forces soldier Anisimov even came to the trial of one of the militants from Umar’s gang. I watched the video of the massacre. Naturally, she did not find her son there. The militants killed the other guy.

This guy, Alexey Paranin, was a good shot from an infantry fighting vehicle in that battle. The militants had losses. A 30mm automatic cannon shell is not a bullet. These are severed limbs, or even cut in half. The Chechens executed Paranin first during the massacre of prisoners.

Well, the fact that Anisimov is on the monument instead of him is not so scary for a people's memorial. There is no monument at the “Televyshka” height, and Private Anisimov from the “Vyatich” detachment is also a hero of that war. Let him be remembered this way at least.

By the way, speaking of May 9... Here is the emblem of the Vyatich detachment, where Anisimov served. The emblem was invented in the 2000s.

The squad's motto: “My honor is loyalty!” A familiar phrase. This was once the motto of the SS troops (Meine Ehre heißt Treue!), which was a quote from one of Hitler's sayings. On May 9, in Armavir (as well as in Moscow) there is probably a lot of talk about how we preserve traditions, etc. Whose traditions?

2. The bright holiday of Kurban Bayram.

After the Chechens took six Russian prisoners in the village, they were taken to a former checkpoint on the outskirts of the village. Umar radioed the militants to gather there. The public execution began, filmed in great detail.

Muslims have the holiday of Kurban Bayram... This is when, according to custom, they slaughter rams, as well as cows, camels, etc. This is done publicly, in the presence (and with the participation) of children, who have become accustomed to such pictures since childhood. Cattle are slaughtered according to special rules. The animal's throat is first cut with a knife and the blood is waited until the blood drains.

Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. October 2013

While the blood is draining, the animal is still alive for some time. With its trachea, esophagus and arteries cut, it wheezes, chokes on blood, and tries to breathe. It is very important that when making an incision, the animal’s neck is directed towards Mecca, and “Bismillahi, Allahu Akbar” (in the name of Allah, Allah is Great) is pronounced over it.

Kedah, Malaysia. October 2013. The agony does not last long, 5-10 minutes.

Faisalabad, Pakistan. Eid al-Fitr 2012. This is a photo from the holiday, if anything.

After the blood has drained, the head is cut off and the cutting of the carcass begins. A reasonable question: how is this different from what happens every day at any meat processing plant? - Because there the animal is first stunned with electric shock. The next step (cutting the throat, draining the blood) occurs when he is already unconscious.

The rules for preparing “halal” (clean) meat in Islam do not allow stunning the animal during slaughter. It must bleed while conscious. Otherwise, the meat will be considered “unclean.”

Tver, November 2010. Kurban Bayram in the area of ​​the cathedral mosque on Sovetskaya street, 66.

Conveyor. While they are slaughtering there, other participants in the festival with their sheep arrive at the mosque.

Eid al-Adha comes from the biblical story about the temptation of Abraham (Ibrahim in Islam). God commanded Abraham to sacrifice his son, and specifically to cut his throat and burn him at the stake. And all to test his (Abraham’s) love for himself. Abraham tied up his son, laid him on top of the firewood and was already preparing to slaughter him, but at the last moment God changed his mind - he said (through an angel) to sacrifice an animal, not a person.

Michelangelo de Caravaggio. "Abraham's Sacrifice" 1601-1602
He's the one cutting his son, if anything.

In memory of the temptation of Abraham, Islam (as well as Judaism) ritually slaughters animals every year. Since in both cases they are cut without stunning, in full consciousness, in a number of countries (Scandinavia, Switzerland, Poland) this was banned as cruelty to animals.

Lahore, Pakistan, November 2009 If you think this is a slaughterhouse, you are mistaken. This is the courtyard of the local mosque on the day of the holiday.

Peshawar, Pakistan, November 2009 But cutting a camel's throat is not so easy.

Finally, the butcher gets a particularly good hit with the knife. Bismillahi, Allahu Akbar!

Rafah, Gaza Strip. 2015. Public observation of an animal slowly bleeding.

Ibid., 2012. Rare shot. The cow, doomed to slaughter, broke free and impaled her tormentors on the horns.

3. Paranin Alexey.

Tukhchar, 1999. Russian prisoners are collected at a checkpoint, then taken out into the street. They put it on the ground. Some have their hands tied behind their backs, some don't.

The first to be executed is Alexey Paranin, an infantry fighting vehicle gunner. His throat is cut and he is left to lie down.

Blood is pouring all around.

Alexey was seriously wounded when an infantry fighting vehicle exploded and was burned. He doesn’t offer any resistance, it seems like he’s unconscious. It was this gunman in black and with a beard who cut him up (who he is is still unknown).

Having started to cut, the killer goes somewhere, but soon comes again

And he begins to cut the victim’s throat completely

Almost beheading Alexei.

Alexey Paranin, a 19-year-old guy from Udmurtia. Graduated from vocational school as a bricklayer, was supposed to become a builder

This is his native village of Vernyaya Tyzhma, 100 km from Izhevsk. This is not the 19th century. This is a black and white photo taken by modern Izhevsk photographer Nikolai Glukhov while in these places.

4. Tashkin Vasily.

After Paranin, the militants were the second to execute senior officer Tashkin. The killer sat astride him, some kind of struggle is visible there...

But soon the lieutenant’s throat is also cut.

A Chechen cameraman takes sadistic pleasure in filming the death of an officer.

The face of the killer who cut the lieutenant's throat is not very clearly visible on the film, but you can hear that those around him call him Arbi, and in the process they give him a larger knife... Here he is in the crowd of spectators after Tashkin's execution.

This Chechen was later found. This is a certain Arbi Dandaev from Grozny. Here he is in court (in a cage):

At the trial, his lawyers, by the way, tried very hard. They said that the defendant repented of what he had done, realized everything, understood. They asked to take into account his severe “mental trauma” in the past and the presence of young children.

The court gave him a life sentence.

Officer Tashkin, who was stabbed by Arby's, was later criticized by some Internet analysts. For stupidity and cowardice. Why did he surrender, go under the knife and put people to death...

Vasily Tashkin is a simple guy from the village of Krasnoyarka in Altai.

In 1991 he entered the Military School in Novosibirsk, and from 1995 he joined the army. In those years, officers left the army in batches, cheap salaries, life, housing. Tashkin remained to serve. Vanka the platoon commander of our days...

Taking the oath at school

The village of Krasnoyarka, Topchikhinsky district, is about 100 km from Barnaul along a good (by local standards) road.

Beautiful places.

An ordinary village, huts, carts (the photos below were taken in this village in the summer)

Dagestan Tukhchar, where there are solid stone houses, looks richer...

In the fall of 1999, Tashkin was sent to Tukhchar to guard a dangerous section of the border with Chechnya. Moreover, he had to do this with extremely small forces. However, they accepted the battle and fought for 2 hours until the situation began to run out of ammunition. Where is the cowardice here?

As for captivity... One Englishman, a participant in the Anglo-Boer War at the beginning of the 20th century, wrote:

“I crawled ashore... A horseman appeared from the other side of the railway, called out to me and waved his hand. He was less than forty yards away... I extended my hand with my Mauser. But I left it in the locomotive box. There was a wire fence between me and the rider. Run again? But the thought of another shot from such a close distance stopped me. Death stood before me, gloomy and gloomy, death without its careless companion - chance. So I raised my hands and, like Mr. Jorrocks' foxes, I shouted, "I surrender."

Fortunately for the Englishman (and this was Winston Churchill), the Boers are civilized people and did not cut the throats of prisoners. Churchill later escaped from captivity and, after many days of wandering, managed to make his way to his own people.

Was Winston Churchill a coward?

5. Lipatov Alexey.

Having killed Anisimov and Tashkin, the Chechens ordered Private Lipatov to stand up. Lipatov looks around. To his right is Tashkin’s corpse, to his left is Paranin, wheezing, bleeding. Lipatov understands what awaits him.

On the orders of Umar, a certain Tamerlan Khasaev from the village of Dachu-Borzoi (with a knife in a blue T-shirt) was to slaughter the prisoner.

But Lipatov began to actively resist and Khasaev only wounded him. Then a militant in black, already familiar to us, who killed Paranin, came to Khasaev’s aid. Together they try to finish off the victim.

A fight ensues

And suddenly, bleeding Lipatov was able to get up, broke free and started running.

Alexey Lipatov is the only one of the prisoners whose throat was not cut. The Chechens chased after him, shooting after him. They finished him off in some ditch, riddled with machine guns. According to Lipatov’s mother, when her son was brought to his native village of Aleksandrovka near Orenburg, the military forbade opening the coffin: “There is no face.” So they buried it without opening it.

The regional authorities provided the soldier's parents with 10 thousand rubles.

The date of death is indicated as 09/06/1999, one day later. On that day, the militants handed over the corpses to the head of the Tukhchar village council, and he took them by truck to the nearest federal forces checkpoint (Gerzelsky Bridge). In reality, Lipatov and his comrades were killed on September 5.

The soldier’s parents were not told what happened to their son. They found out everything only in 2002, when the militant Khasaev was caught and the parents were summoned to trial. In complete silence, a video recording of the execution of prisoners was shown in the hall. “Here is my son!” - Lipatov’s father cried out at some point.

Tamerlan Khasaev.

Khasaev dodged as best he could during the trial. He said that he had just begun to kill Lipatov, but did not undercut, because... I couldn't psychologically. " I couldn't kill the soldier. He also asked: “Don’t kill me. I want to live." My heart started beating fast and I felt a little sick».

In addition, Khasaev stated that during the investigation they extorted testimony from him through threats. But he is embarrassed to say what they threatened to say.

“Were you not shy when you cut them?"- asked the prosecutor.
“They threatened to do to me what they do to a woman", answered Khasaev.
“So you’re saying that they wanted to screw you over?— the judge perked up. — Don’t be shy, we’re all doctors here.”.

Of course, criminal jargon from the lips of a judge does not decorate a Russian court, but Khasaev got his way. He was also given a life sentence. Shortly after the verdict, he died in prison. His heart started beating and he felt a little sick.

6.Kaufman Vladimir.

After Lipatov, it was the turn of Private Vladimir Kaufman. One of the militants, named Rasul, drags Kaufman into a clearing and demands that he lie face down. This makes cutting easier.

Kaufman begs Rasul not to kill him. He says that he is ready to hand over the wounded BMP gunner, who is “hiding in that white house over there.”

The proposal is of no interest to the militants. They had just killed the BMP gunner. The almost headless corpse of Alexei Paranin (his head rests on one spine) lies nearby. Then Kaufman promises to show where “the weapons are hidden.” Somewhere in the mountains.

Rasul is getting tired of the delay. Kaufman is ordered to remove his belt and place his hands behind his back. He understands that it is the end. “I don’t want to die, don’t kill, good people!” he shouts. “Kind, kind. Good guys!” says the video camera operator with a strong Chechen accent.

A fight ensues. Two other militants pounce on Kaufman and try to wring his hands.

They can't do it. Then one of them hits the victim on the head with a butt.

Kaufman is stunned and Rasul begins to stab him in the back of the head.

In the end, when the prisoner has already lost consciousness, his throat is cut.

The guy was 19 years old.

The militant Rasul, who cut Vladimir’s throat, was not found. According to one version, he died later during some special operation, as reported on the websites of Chechen separatists. Here is his photo:

But they caught two of Rasul’s assistants who were holding Kaufman before the murder.

This is Islan Mukaev. He wringed Kaufman's hands.

And Rezvan Vagapov. He held his head while Rasul cut his throat.

Mukaev received 25 years, Vagapov - 18.

The soldier they killed was buried thousands of kilometers from Tukhchar, in his native village of Aleksandrovskoye in the Tomsk region. A large ancient village on the banks of the Ob...

Everything is the same as everywhere else (photo of the village - 2011).

Vladimir Kaufman was born and raised here. He received his surname from his grandfather, a Volga German, who was exiled here under Stalin.

Vladimir's mother Maria Andreevna at her son's grave.

7. Erdneev Boris.

Having stabbed Kaufman, the militants took on Boris Erdneev, a Kalmyk who was a sniper in Tashkin’s platoon. Boris had no chance; his hands were tied in advance. The video shows one of the Chechens holding Erdneev by the chest with one hand.

Erdneev looks in horror at the Chechen’s other hand. It contains a large knife with traces of blood.

He tries to talk to the executioner:

“You respect Kalmyks, don’t you?”- he asks.
“We respect you very much, haha, - the Chechen says maliciously behind the scenes, - lie down".

The victim is thrown to the ground.

The Chechen who killed Boris Erdneev was later found. This is a certain Mansur Razhaev from Grozny.

In 2012 he received a life sentence.

During the execution, Razhaev was not at all embarrassed by the camera. But at the trial he really didn’t want to be filmed.

According to Razhaev, before his death, they invited Boris Erdneev to convert to Islam (Kalmyks are Buddhists). But he refused. That is, Erdneev repeated the feat of Yevgeny Rodionov, who also refused to convert to Islam in May 1996, during the first Chechen war. He refused and his head was cut off.

It was here, in the forest near Bamut.

There, three more prisoners were killed with him

The feat of Evgeniy Rodionov received quite wide publicity; many churches in Russia have icons in his honor. The feat of Boris Erdneev is much less known.

Boris Erdneev at the oath

A photo from a stand about him at his home school in the village of Artezian in Kalmykia (270 km from the capital of the republic, Elista).

8. Polagaev Alexey.

He was the last to be killed. This was done personally by the gang leader Umar. Here he comes up to Alexey with a knife, rolls up his sleeves

The prisoner's hands are tied, and he is shell-shocked, so Umar has nothing to fear. He sits astride the prisoner and begins to cut

Why does the half-cut off head begin to swing up and down, so that it can barely hang on to the body?

Then he releases the victim. The soldier begins to roll on the ground in his death throes.

He soon bled to death. The militants shout in unison “Allahu Akbar!”

Alexey Polagaev, 19 years old, from the city of Kashira, Moscow region.

The only city guy out of six dead. The rest are from villages. The army in the Russian Federation is a workers' and peasants' army, they say correctly. People who don't have money go to serve.

As for the killer of Alexei, gang leader Umar Karpinsky, he did not appear in court. Didn't make it. He was killed in January 2000 when militants were leaving encirclement in Grozny.

9. Epilogue.

Russian-Chechen war 1999-2000. was in favor of preserving Chechnya and Dagestan as part of Russia. The militants wanted to separate them, and Tashkin, Lipatov, Kaufman, Paranin and others stood in their way. And they gave their lives. Officially, this was then called an operation to “establish constitutional order.”

17 years have passed since then. Long term. What's new with us? What about the independence of Chechnya and the constitutional order in Dagestan?

Everything is fine in Chechnya.

By the way, what's on his head? He wears a maroon beret, but the cockade is somehow strange. Where did he even get it?

After the victory over the militants in 2000, the dictatorship of the Kadyrov father and son was organized in Chechnya. You can read what this is in any history textbook in the section "Feudalism". The appanage prince has complete independence in his inheritance (ulus), but is in a vassal relationship with a superior prince. Namely:

A. Gives him a percentage of his income;
B. Fields his private army against his enemies when necessary.

This is what we are seeing in Chechnya.

Also, if you read a history textbook, it will be written that the appanage system is unreliable, because of it Kievan Rus, the Arab Caliphate and many others collapsed. Everything is based on the personal loyalty of the vassal, and it is changeable. Today he is for some, tomorrow - for others.

It is clear that they will soon be passionately kissing in front of the camera...

But who will go to fight for the third time in Chechnya when Kadyrov’s despotism officially announces its secession from Russia? But this will happen on the second day, when Putin leaves and Kadyrov feels a threat to his power. In Moscow, he has a lot of “well-wishers” in the security forces. And he's hooked. A lot of things have accumulated there.

For example, this monkey:

Who will believe that Nemtsov was ordered to him by the driver of one of Kadyrov’s close associates for 5 million rubles? Himself personally, directly with your own money. And drivers earn good money in Chechnya.

Or this character:

He killed Colonel Budanov in 2011. Before this, I found out the address, followed for six months, got myself false documents under a different name, so that I could then hide in Chechnya. And also a pistol and a stolen foreign car with the wrong license plates. Allegedly, he acted alone out of hatred for all Russian military personnel who killed his father in Chechnya in the 90s.

Who will believe this? Before that, he had lived in Moscow for 11 years, in a big way, wasting money, and suddenly he was stuck. Budanov was released in January 2009. He was convicted of war crimes, deprived of awards and titles and served 9 years of a 10-year sentence. However, already in February 2009, Kadyrov publicly threatened him, stating that:

“...His place is in prison for life. And this is not enough for him. But a life sentence will at least ease our suffering a little. We do not tolerate insults. If a decision is not made, the consequences will be bad.”

This is Kadyrov's Chechnya. What's in Dagestan? - Everything is fine there too. The Chechen militants were driven out of there in 1999. But with the local Wahhabis it turned out to be more difficult. They are still shooting and exploding. Otherwise, life in Dagestan goes on as usual: chaos, mafia clans, cutting of subsidies. As elsewhere in the Russian Federation. Constitutional order, huh.

In interethnic relations, something has also changed in 17 years. With all due respect to the residents of the village of Tukhchar, who hid Tashkin’s soldiers and honor the memory of the dead, the general attitude towards Dagestanis in the country has become worse. A striking example: since 2012, conscription into the army has been stopped in Dagestan. They don’t call because they can’t cope with them. And it starts like this:

Or this:

These, by the way, are the defenders of the Motherland (who are). Polite people. And the one with a raised finger means “There is no god but Allah.” Favorite gesture of Islamists, incl. Wahhabis. They use it to express their superiority.

However, you can not only put Russians in cancer. You can sit on horseback:

Or you can put a live inscription on the parade ground. 05th region, i.e. Dagestan.

Interestingly, in most cases, finding participants in this chaos is not so difficult. They are not actually hiding. Here are photos of “horse riding” in 2012, posted on the Internet by a certain Ali Ragimov to the group “Dagi in the Army” on Odnoklassniki.

Now he lives calmly in St. Petersburg, respects Sharia law.

By the way, in his photo from the army there are chevrons with a lizard.

These are the Internal Troops, Ural District. The same BB guys who died in Tukhchar. I wonder if the guys he’s sitting on will go to defend Tukhchar next time? Or let Ali Ragimov do it himself somehow?

But the live inscription 05 DAG on the parade ground in military unit No. 42581 in Krasnoe Selo was posted by a certain Abdul Abdulkhalimov. He is now in Novorossiysk:

Together with Abdulkhalimov, a whole company of his Dagestani comrades frolicked in Krasnoe Selo.

Since 2012, the Abdulkhalimovs are no longer conscripted. The Russians do not want to serve in the same army with the Dagestanis, because... then they have to crawl around the barracks in front of the Caucasians. Moreover, both are citizens of the same state (for now), where the rights and responsibilities are the same for everyone. This is the constitutional order.

On the other hand, Dagestanis were not drafted into the army in 1941-45. (due to mass desertion). There were only small formations of volunteers. Dagestanis did not serve in the tsarist army either. There was one volunteer cavalry regiment, which in 1914 became part of the Caucasian Native Division. This "wild division" of the Highlanders in the First World War was actually no more than 7,000 people. So many volunteers were recruited. Of these, there are about 1000 Dagestanis. And that’s all for an army of 5 million. In both the Second and First World Wars, conscripts from Chechnya and Dagestan mostly stayed at home.

Why does this happen to the mountaineers, constantly, for more than 100 years and under any government? - And this not them army. AND not them state. They are kept there by force. Even if they want to live (and serve) in it, they do so by some of their own rules. That’s why funerals come to poor Krasnoyarsk and Alexandrovka cities. And apparently, they will continue to come.

Bombing of the village of Zakan-Yurt

Mass killings of civilians Throughout the war, in addition to indiscriminate bombing and artillery shelling, the Russian occupiers destroyed the Chechen people. The so-called “cleansing” of cities from “terrorists” took place with the execution of women, children and the elderly. In December, Russians killed 17 civilians in the village of Alkhan-Yurt in a robbery, burned many houses and raped many women, according to a report by the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee from Human Rights Watch. More than 50 murders are known in the Staropromyslovsky district of Grozny. The occupiers mocked people, burned them alive and killed civilians in front of their relatives, and also mocked the bodies of the dead. We know about an incident that occurred in the village of Novye Aldy on February 5, 2000. - On the evening of February 4, soldiers entered the village. These were 18-20 year old conscripts and several officers, they asked if there were any militants left. We gave them what we had to eat. They were friendly and warned that tomorrow they would “unleash the dogs” on us. We didn't understand them. On February 5, in the morning, shots and machine gun fire were heard. When the houses caught fire and people started screaming, we realized that the “dogs” had entered the village. They destroyed everything, killed and burned people without asking for documents. They only asked for gold and money, and then they shot,” recalls village resident Marina Izmailova. -Two brothers, elderly people, Abdulla and Salam Magomadov, remained in house 158 on Mazaev Street. They were burned alive in their home. Only a few days later it was difficult to collect their remains. They fit in a plastic bag. On Khoperskaya Street the same thing happened as on ours. Ali Khadzhimuradov, a pensioner, had his gold teeth knocked out with a butt. Three from the Ganaev family were killed on Voronezhskaya Street. Four from the Mussayev family died." Indiscriminate detentions and torture After the Russian military announced that all men between the ages of 10 and 60 had become potential terrorists for them, a riot swept across Chechnya a series of arrests among the civilian population. Men were often either killed on the spot or sent to filtration camps and prisons, where they were tortured. The Russians offered to release the detainees for a reward, and also sold the bodies of the dead to relatives. In addition, the blood-crazed military men. There were also women present, as federal troops were “looking for snipers.”

Bombing of the village of Shaami-Yurt.

Another village through which the combatants went into the mountains came under fire for two days. Residents were not notified of the start of hostilities, and were not given the opportunity to leave the village. When trying to leave the village, many men were arrested by the Russians. Later they were found killed with signs of torture.

Bombing of the village of Zakan-Yurt

After the shelling that occurred in early November 1999, the rural community agreed to become a so-called “safe zone” controlled by federal troops. However, when on the night of February 2 the Russians opened a corridor for Chechen soldiers to leave Grozny, they walked through Zakan-Yurt. And the village was subjected to merciless shelling. At exactly midnight on the night of the 2nd, the bombing of the civilian population of the village began, where only part of the combatants were located. Witnesses say that the Chechens wanted to quickly leave the village, but the invaders decided to raze them to the ground along with the civilians. About 30 people died.

Ultimatum to local residents.

The leaders of the Russian troops presented the residents of Grozny with the fact that everyone needs to leave the city, otherwise anyone who is not outside its borders will be considered a terrorist and subject to destruction. We are talking about hundreds of thousands of people. The military promised to provide a humanitarian corridor to exit the besieged city, but did not do so. All roads leading from the capital were subject to regular bombing.

Airstrike on refugees

At the end of October, when it became clear to people that Russia was again starting a bloody war, local residents en masse tried to leave the country. Columns of refugees were blocked by the Russians at the checkpoint to Ingushetia. The soldiers raped women and killed those who tried to stop them. Old people and children died from the cold, but the ruthless Russians did not let anyone out. On October 29, a column of refugees heading to Nazran from Grozny was bombed. Several hundred people died.

Bombing of Grozny

In early August and September, detachments under the command of Basayev began operations in Dagestan. Russia responded to this with a counter-terrorism operation, after which a full-scale and incredibly cruel war began on the territory of Chechnya. On October 21, 1999, the occupiers launched a tactical missile at Grozny. The shell exploded over a market, a maternity hospital and a mosque. 150 people died. Five days later, the commander of the Western Front of the Russian Federation, General Shamanov, admitted that these deaths lay on the conscience of the Russian army.

Pavel Felgenhauer, who was still friends with Russian generals during the first war, recalled how one of the top military leaders shared his secret with him at that time: “We are working so ruthlessly on Grozny and other goals in Chechnya so that these NATO goats will finally understand if the Russians are capable to do this to their own city and to their own citizens is what they will be willing to do to Western cities and their inhabitants.” Thousands of people were held in “filtration camps” where they were subjected to torture and ill-treatment, while detainees were willingly sold (alive or dead) to their relatives whenever possible. According to Alexander Cherkasov, an employee of the Memorial Human Rights Center, Russia did not keep records of dead civilians. The center's expert estimates are frightening - up to 50 thousand civilian deaths.

April 1995

Targeted killing of civilians

Russian occupiers along the entire front line continue to shoot Chechens from all types of guns. Nozhai-Yurt, Ishkhoy-Yurt, Betty-Mokhk - villages whose population were shot in cold blood. From the memoirs of Patimat, a resident of the village of Ishkhoy-Yurt: “The old people agreed that the Russian military should not kill people and destroy the village. The Russian army said that they only plan to go through the village. They said they wanted to surround the forest. They came to the village and started shooting through us. Planes bomb, helicopters bomb, but they still end up in the village... 10-15 houses were demolished.” They worked with "Grads" and "Hurricanes". Incredible shelling continued until 1996 without respite. During the day, the main roads through which people could leave their cities and villages were bombed approximately once every 15-20 minutes, forcing the residents of Chechnya to remain in their homes under continuous air raids and artillery shelling. During the presidential elections in the Russian Federation, there were no military operations for almost a week, but immediately after the second round, the Russians began to use heavy weapons again. “All last night, the village of Makhkety was subject to intense shelling from Grad and Uragan multiple rocket launchers. The number of victims of the shelling is 18, several dozen residents were wounded. They cannot be taken out of the village, since yesterday afternoon federal units blocked the only road leading from this settlement. They tried to take some seriously wounded people out of Makhketa along mountain paths. Of the 8 people taken to the hospital in the Shalinsky district, four died from their wounds, the condition of the rest is assessed as critical. The only closest place where the victims can receive qualified assistance. Shali itself remains, but the city is again blocked. The soldiers at the checkpoints do not allow cars with the wounded to pass through the cordon,” noted an ITAR-TASS correspondent on July 11, 1996.

Using civilians as human shields

In March 1996, in the village of Samashki, Russian soldiers used civilians as a shield. After the shelling, the Chechens began to defend the village, and attempts by the Russians to enter the village led to heavy losses. Then the feds resorted to using a “human shield.” The occupiers turned around the column of refugees, lined up people near their armored vehicles and walked into the village. From the memoirs of Patimat, a resident of the village of Ishkhoy-Yurt: “The old people agreed that the Russian military should not kill people and destroy the village. The Russian army said that they only plan to go through the village. They said they wanted to surround the forest. They came to the village and started shooting through us. Planes bomb, helicopters bomb, but they still end up in the village... 10-15 houses were demolished.” They worked with "Grads" and "Hurricanes". From April 7 to 8, Russian law enforcement officers entered the village of Samashki. More than 100 civilians were shot in cold blood.

Application of vacuum bombs

The Russian military continues its crimes, targeting civilians with artillery and aviation. Hundreds of people die every day throughout Chechnya. At the same time, shelling is carried out mainly in residential areas. Here is the story of Zazu Tsuraeva, a participant in the events: On March 11 or 12, 68 houses were bombed in Shali. The men said that vacuum bombs were used. All that was left of the buildings was land. Many children died. For 4 days they tried to sort out the rubble, they found either a child’s hand or a head. By this time there were no militants in Shali. They left Arghun around March 15th. After that, there were none in Argun, Shali, or Mesker-Yurt."

Bombing of a refugee camp.

In the area of ​​Lake Kezenoyam, the Russian military allegedly discovered a “militant base” that was in fact a shelter for hundreds of refugees. An air strike targeted the building of the sports base where people were staying. It is reliably known that five women and children died, but witnesses speak of a much larger number of victims.

Death of 7 children.

The group of the Commissioner for Human Rights recorded the first case of the death of children at the hands of Russians on December 21. Near Grozny, in the village of Artemovskaya, there was artillery shelling. The Musaev and Selimkhanov families took refuge in the basement when a shell hit it. As a result of the explosion, five children were killed immediately and five more were injured. In Grozny they were never able to save the two Musaev sisters, aged five and six.

Destruction of 18 houses.

The Russian Air Force bombed Chechnya several times every day. At the same time, there were no targeted attacks, and the official Kremlin denied all the facts of the death of civilians. So, on the night of December 19-20, two bombs destroyed a residential building and partially destroyed 18 more. Witnesses talk about the death of a man, an elderly woman and two children.

December 1994.

First bombings

In December 1994, when the Russian occupiers began to trample Chechen soil, so-called “filtration camps” were created, where all people who seemed suspicious to the Russian military were taken. Illegal detention, torture, executions - all this has become a reality for both civilians and militias who have taken up arms. Already on December 12, in response to fire from the village of Assinovskaya, the entire populated area was shelled from artillery. In mid-December, federal troops began shelling Grozny with artillery. On December 17, the first bomb attack was carried out on the capital. Within two days, aviation carried out air raids on 40 settlements. The number of dead immediately exceeded 500 people.

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Andrey Veselov
Russians were humiliated in every way; in Grozny there was a poster hanging near the Printing House: Russians, don’t leave, we need slaves
In 1991-1992, TENS OF THOUSANDS of Russians were massacred in Chechnya.
In Shelkovskaya in the spring of 1992, the “Chechen police” confiscated all hunting weapons from the Russian population, and a week later militants came to the unarmed village. They were engaged in re-registration of real estate. Moreover, a whole system of signs was developed for this purpose. Human intestines wrapped around the fence meant: the owner is no longer there, there are only women in the house, ready for “love.” Women's bodies impaled on the same fence: the house is free, you can move in...
I saw columns of buses, which, due to the stench, could not be approached within a hundred meters, because they were filled with the bodies of slaughtered Russians. I saw women cut straight lengthwise with a chainsaw, children impaled on road sign posts, guts artistically wrapped around a fence. We Russians were cleaned out from our own land, like dirt from under our fingernails. And this was 1992 - there were still two and a half years left before the “first Chechen war”...
During the first Chechen war, video recordings were captured of minor Vainakhs having fun with Russian women. They put women on all fours and threw knives as if at a target, trying to hit the vagina. All this was filmed and commented on...

Then came the “fun times”. Russians began to be slaughtered in the streets in broad daylight. Before my eyes, in a line for bread, one Russian guy was surrounded by Vainakhs, one of whom spat on the floor and invited the Russian to lick the spit off the floor. When he refused, his stomach was ripped open with a knife. Chechens burst into a parallel class right during the lesson, chose the three prettiest Russian high school girls and dragged them away with them. Then we found out that the girls were given as a birthday present to a local Chechen authority.
And then it got really fun. Militants came to the village and began to clear it of Russians. At night, the screams of people being raped and slaughtered in their own home could sometimes be heard. And no one came to their aid. Everyone was for himself, everyone was shaking with fear, and some managed to provide an ideological basis for this matter, they say, “my home is my fortress” (yes, dear Rodo, I heard this phrase right then. The person who uttered it is already no longer alive - the Vainakhs wrapped his intestines around the fence of his own house). This is how we, cowardly and stupid, were slaughtered one by one. Tens of thousands of Russians were killed, several thousand ended up in slavery and Chechen harems, hundreds of thousands fled from Chechnya in their underpants.
This is how the Vainakhs resolved the “Russian question” in a separate republic.
The video was filmed by militants in 1999 during the invasion of Basayev’s group in Dagestan. On the way of the group there was our checkpoint, the personnel of which, upon seeing the militants, crap themselves from fear and surrendered. Our servicemen had the opportunity to die like a man, in battle. They did not want this, and as a result they were slaughtered like sheep. And if you watched the video carefully, you should have noticed that only the one who was stabbed last had his hands tied. Fate gave the rest another chance to die like humans. Any of them could stand up and make the last sharp movement in their lives - if not grab the enemy with their teeth, then at least take a knife or machine gun fire to the chest while standing. But they, seeing, hearing, and feeling that their comrade was being slaughtered nearby, and knowing that they would be slaughtered too, still preferred the death of a mutton.
This is a one-on-one situation with the Russians in Chechnya. There we behaved exactly the same. And we were cut out in the same way.
By the way, I always showed captured Chechen videos to every young recruit in my platoon, and then in the company, and they were even less glamorous than the one presented. My fighters looked at torture, and at the ripping open of the stomach, and at sawing off the head with a hacksaw. We looked carefully. After that, it would never have occurred to any of them to surrender.
There, during the war, fate brought me together with another Jew - Lev Yakovlevich Rokhlin. Initially, our participation in the New Year's assault was not expected. But when contact was lost with the 131st Motorized Rifle Brigade and the 81st Motorized Rifle Regiment, we were rushed to help. We broke through to the location of the 8th AK, commanded by General Rokhlin, and arrived at his headquarters. That was the first time I saw him in person. And at first glance he somehow didn’t seem to me: hunched over, with a cold, wearing cracked glasses... Not a general, but some tired agronomist. He set us the task of collecting the scattered remnants of the Maikop brigade and the 81st regiment and leading them to the airborne division of the Rokhlinsky reconnaissance battalion. This is what we did - we collected meat that had pissed itself from fear from the basements and brought it to the location of the Rokhlinsky scouts. There were about two companies in total. At first, Rokhlin did not want to use them, but when all the other groups retreated, 8 AK was left alone in the operational environment in the city center. Against all militants! And then Rokhlin lined up this “army” opposite the line of his fighters and addressed them with a speech. I will never forget this speech. The general’s most affectionate expressions were: “fucking monkeys” and “p@daras.” At the end, he said: “The militants outnumber us fifteen times. And we have nowhere to wait for help. And if we are destined to lie here, let each of us be found under a heap of enemy corpses. Let’s show how Russian soldiers and Russian generals know how to die! Don't let me down, sons..."
Lev Yakovlevich has been dead for a long time - they dealt with him without you. One less Jew, isn't it?
And then there was a terrible, terrible battle, in which out of my platoon of 19 people, six remained alive. And when the Chechens broke through to the location and it came down to grenades, and we realized that we were all going to hell - I saw real Russian people. There was no more fear. There was some kind of cheerful anger, detachment from everything. There was only one thought in my head: “dad” asked me not to let him down.” The wounded bandaged themselves, injected themselves with promedol and continued the battle.
Then the Vainakhs and I fought hand-to-hand. And they ran. This was the turning point in the battle for Grozny. It was a confrontation between two characters - Caucasian and Russian, and ours turned out to be stronger. It was at that moment that I realized that we can do this. We have this solid core within us; we just need to clear it of the stuck shit. We took prisoners in hand-to-hand combat. Looking at us, they didn’t even whine - they howled in horror. And then a radio intercept was read to us - an order from Dudayev passed through the militants’ radio networks: “reconnaissance officers from 8AK and special forces of the Airborne Forces should not be taken prisoner or tortured, but immediately finished off and buried as soldiers.” We were very proud of this order.
Then comes the understanding that neither the Chechens, nor the Armenians, nor the Jews are, in essence, to blame. They only do to us what we allow to be done to ourselves.
Think about what you are doing and study history. And the excuse that one must carry out the order is complacency; there is always a way out to refuse to carry out the order, to resign, so to speak. And if everyone had taken a responsible approach to deciding the fate of the Motherland and resigned, then there would have been no Chechen massacre.
I am grateful to the Chechens as teachers for the lesson they taught. They helped me see my true enemy - the cowardly sheep and p@aras, who firmly settled in my own head.
And you continue to fight the Jews and other “untrue Aryans.” Good luck to you.
If the Russians were men, no troops would be needed. By 1990, the population of Chechnya was approximately 1.3-1.4 million people, of which 600-700 thousand were Russian. Grozny has about 470 thousand inhabitants, of which at least 300 thousand are Russian. In the original Cossack regions - Naursky, Shelkovsky and Nadterechny - there were about 70% Russians. On our own soil, we lost to an enemy who was two to three times inferior to us in numbers.
And when the troops were brought in, there was practically no one to save.
Yeltsin, the Aklash, could not do this, but Berezovsky and his company are a Jew. And the facts of his cooperation with the Chechens are well known. As GRANDFATHER said, the Generalissimo was captured.
This does not justify the performers. It was not the Jew Berezovsky who distributed weapons to the Vainakhs, but the Russian Grachev (by the way, a paratrooper, hero of Afghanistan). But when “human rights activists” came to Rokhlin and offered to surrender to the Chechens under their guarantees, Rokhlin ordered them to be placed in cancer and kicked to the front lines. So it doesn’t matter whether the generalissimo was captured or not - the country is alive as long as its last soldier is alive.
forecast for Russia for 2010 from Gaidar.
This schmuck is directly related to the processes that affected each of us in particular, and our entire former Country as a whole. This is from an “economics” point of view.
But I also have questions for him of a non-economic nature. In January 1995, the above-mentioned gentleman, as part of a large delegation of “human rights activists” (led by S.A. Kovalev), came to Grozny to persuade our soldiers to surrender to the Chechens under their personal guarantees. Moreover, Gaidar shone in the tactical air no more intensely than Kovalev. 72 people surrendered under Gaidar’s “personal guarantees.” Subsequently, their mutilated corpses, with signs of torture, were found in the area of ​​the cannery, Katayama and Sq. Just a minute.
This Smart and Handsome man has blood on his hands not up to his elbows, but up to his ears.
He was lucky - he died on his own, without trial or execution.
But the moment will come when, in Russian traditions, its rotten entrails will be taken out of the grave, loaded into a cannon and shot to the west - IT is unworthy to lie in Our Land.
PS: Dear Lieutenant, “the dead have no shame” - it is said about fallen soldiers who lost the battle.
Our ancestors handed us a great Country, and we screwed it up. And in fact, we are all not even sheep, but just fucking sheep. Because our Country perished, and we, who took the oath to defend it “to the last drop of blood,” are still alive.
But. Awareness of this unpleasant fact helps us “squeeze the slave out of ourselves drop by drop,” develop and strengthen our character.” http://www.facebook.com/groups/russian.r egion/permalink/482339108511015/
Following are the facts:
Chechnya Excerpts from the testimony of forced migrants who fled from Chechnya Wind of Change
Russians! Don't leave, we need slaves!
http://www.facebook.com/groups/russouz/p ermalink/438080026266711/
“Excerpts from the testimony of internally displaced persons who fled Chechnya in the period from 1991 to 1995. The authors' vocabulary has been preserved. Some names have been changed. (Chechnya.ru)
A. Kochedykova, lived in Grozny:
“I left Grozny in February 1993 due to constant threats of action from armed Chechens and non-payment of pensions and wages. I left my apartment with all its furnishings, two cars, a cooperative garage and left with my husband.
In February 1993, Chechens killed my neighbor, born in 1966, on the street. They pierced her head, broke her ribs, and raped her.
War veteran Elena Ivanovna was also killed from the apartment nearby.
In 1993, it became impossible to live there; people were killing all over the place. Cars were blown up right next to people. Russians began to be fired from their jobs without any reason.
A man born in 1935 was killed in the apartment. He was stabbed nine times, his daughter was raped and killed right there in the kitchen."
B. Efankin, lived in Grozny:
“In May 1993, in my garage, two Chechen guys armed with a machine gun and a pistol attacked me and tried to take possession of my car, but could not, because it was being repaired. They shot over my head.
In the fall of 1993, a group of armed Chechens brutally killed my friend Bolgarsky, who refused to voluntarily give up his Volga car. Such cases were widespread. For this reason I left Grozny."

D. Gakuryany, lived in Grozny:
“In November 1994, Chechen neighbors threatened to kill me with a pistol, and then kicked me out of the apartment and moved in there themselves.”

P. Kuskova, lived in Grozny:
“On July 1, 1994, four teenagers of Chechen nationality broke my arm and raped me in the area of ​​the Red Hammer plant when I was returning home from work.”

E. Dapkulinets, lived in Grozny:
“On December 6 and 7, 1994, he was severely beaten for refusing to participate in Dudayev’s militia as part of Ukrainian militants in the village of Chechen-Aul.”

E. Barsykova, lived in Grozny:
“In the summer of 1994, I saw from the window of my apartment in Grozny how armed people of Chechen nationality approached the garage belonging to Mkrtchan N.’s neighbor, one of them shot Mkrtchan N. in the leg, and then took his car and drove away.”

G. Tarasova, lived in Grozny:
“On May 6, 1993, my husband went missing in Grozny. Tarasov A.F. I assume that the Chechens forcibly took him to the mountains to work, because he is a welder.”

E. Khobova, lived in Grozny:
“On December 31, 1994, my husband, Pogodin, and brother, Eremin A., were killed by a Chechen sniper while they were cleaning up the corpses of Russian soldiers on the street.”

N. Trofimova, lived in Grozny:
“In September 1994, Chechens broke into the apartment of my sister, O. N. Vishnyakova, raped her in front of her children, beat her son and took away her 12-year-old daughter Lena. She never returned.
Since 1993, my son was repeatedly beaten and robbed by Chechens."

V. Ageeva, lived in Art. Petropavlovskaya Grozny district:
“On January 11, 1995, in the village square, Dudayev’s militants shot Russian soldiers.”

M. Khrapova, lived in Gudermes:
“In August 1992, our neighbor, R.S. Sargsyan, and his wife, Z.S. Sargsyan, were tortured and burned alive.”

V. Kobzarev, lived in the Grozny region:
“On November 7, 1991, three Chechens fired at my dacha with machine guns, and I miraculously survived.
In September 1992, armed Chechens demanded to vacate the apartment and threw a grenade. And I, fearing for my life and the lives of my relatives, was forced to leave Chechnya with my family."

T. Alexandrova, lived in Grozny:
“My daughter was returning home in the evening. The Chechens dragged her into a car, beat her, cut her and raped her. We were forced to leave Grozny.”

T. Vdovchenko, lived in Grozny:
“My neighbor in the stairwell, KGB officer V. Tolstenok, was dragged out of his apartment early in the morning by armed Chechens and a few days later his mutilated corpse was discovered. I personally did not see these events, but O.K. told me about it (address K. not specified, the event took place in Grozny in 1991)".

V. Nazarenko, lived in Grozny:
“He lived in Grozny until November 1992. Dudayev condoned the fact that crimes were openly committed against Russians, and no Chechens were punished for this.
The rector of Grozny University suddenly disappeared, and after some time his corpse was accidentally found buried in the forest. They did this to him because he did not want to vacate the position he held."

O. Shepetilo, born 1961:
"I lived in Grozny until the end of April 1994. I worked in the Kalinovskaya station, Naypsky district, as the director of a music school. At the end of 1993, I was returning from work from the Kalinovskaya station to the city of Grozny. There was no bus, so I went "A Zhiguli car drove up to the city on foot, a Chechen with a Kalashnikov assault rifle got out of it and, threatening to kill me, pushed me into the car, drove me to the field, where he mocked me for a long time, raped and beat me."

Y. Yunysova:
“Son Zair was taken hostage in June 1993 and was held for 3 weeks, released after paying 1.5 million rubles.”

M. Portnykh:
“In the spring of 1992, in Grozny, on Dyakova Street, a wine and vodka store was completely looted. A live grenade was thrown into the apartment of the manager of this store, as a result of which her husband was killed, and her leg was amputated.”

I. Chekulina, born 1949:
“I left Grozny in March 1993. My son was robbed 5 times, all his outer clothing was taken off. On the way to the institute, the Chechens severely beat my son, broke his head, and threatened him with a knife.
I was personally beaten and raped only because I am Russian.
The dean of the faculty of the institute where my son studied was killed.
Before we left, my son’s friend, Maxim, was killed.”

V. Minkoeva, born in 1978:
“In 1992, in Grozny, a neighboring school was attacked. Children (seventh grade) were taken hostage and held for 24 hours. The entire class and three teachers were gang raped.
In 1993, my classmate M. was kidnapped.
In the summer of 1993 on the railway platform. station, before my eyes, a man was shot by Chechens.”

V. Komarova:
“In Grozny, I worked as a nurse in children’s clinic No. 1. Totikova worked for us, Chechen militants came to her and shot the whole family at home.
My whole life was in fear. One day, Dudayev and his militants ran into the clinic, where they pressed us against the walls. So he walked around the clinic and shouted that there was a Russian genocide here, because our building used to belong to the KGB.
I was not paid my salary for 7 months, and in April 1993 I left.”

Yu. Pletneva, born in 1970:
“In the summer of 1994, at 13:00, I was an eyewitness to the execution on Khrushchev Square of 2 Chechens, 1 Russian and 1 Korean. The execution was carried out by four guardsmen of Dudaev, who brought victims in foreign cars. A citizen passing by in a car was injured.
At the beginning of 1994, on Khrushchev Square, one Chechen was playing with a grenade. The check jumped off, the player and several other people nearby were injured.
There were a lot of weapons in the city, almost every resident of Grozny was a Chechen.
The Chechen neighbor was drinking, making noise, threatening rape in a perverted form and murder.”

A. Fedyushkin, born in 1945:
“In 1992, unknown persons armed with a pistol took away a car from my godfather, who lived in the village of Chervlennaya.
In 1992 or 1993, two Chechens, armed with a pistol and a knife, tied up their wife (born in 1949) and eldest daughter (born in 1973), committed violent acts against them, took away a TV, a gas stove and disappeared. The attackers were wearing masks.
In 1992, in Art. Chervlennaya was robbed by some men, taking away an icon and a cross, causing bodily harm.
Brother's neighbor who lived in the station. Chervlennoy, in his VAZ-2121 car, left the village and disappeared. The car was found in the mountains, and 3 months later he was found in the river."

V. Doronina:
“At the end of August 1992, my granddaughter was taken away in a car, but was soon released.
In Art. Nizhnedeviyk (Assinovka) in an orphanage, armed Chechens raped all the girls and teachers.
Yunus' neighbor threatened to kill my son and demanded that he sell him the house.
At the end of 1991, armed Chechens burst into my relative’s house, demanded money, threatened to kill me, and killed my son.”

S. Akinshin (born 1961):
“On August 25, 1992, at about 12 o’clock, 4 Chechens entered the territory of a summer cottage in Grozny and demanded that my wife, who was there, have sexual intercourse with them. When the wife refused, one of them hit her in the face with brass knuckles, causing bodily harm. ..".

R. Akinshina (born 1960):
“On August 25, 1992, at about 12 o’clock, at a dacha in the area of ​​the 3rd city hospital in Grozny, four Chechens aged 15-16 years old demanded to have sexual intercourse with them. I was indignant. Then one of the Chechens hit me with brass knuckles and I was raped, taking advantage of my helpless state, they forced me, under threat of murder, to have sexual intercourse with my dog."

H. Lobenko:
“In the entrance of my house, people of Chechen nationality shot 1 Armenian and 1 Russian. They killed the Russian because he stood up for the Armenian.”

T. Zabrodina:
“There was a case when my bag was snatched.
In March - April 1994, a drunken Chechen came into the boarding school where my daughter Natasha worked, beat his daughter, raped her and then tried to kill her. The daughter managed to escape.
I witnessed a neighboring house being robbed. At this time, the residents were in a bomb shelter."

O. Kalchenko:
“Before my eyes, my employee, a 22-year-old girl, was raped and shot by the Chechens on the street near our work.
I myself was robbed by two Chechens; they took away my last money at knifepoint.”

V. Karagedin:
“They killed their son on 01/08/95, earlier the Chechens killed their youngest son on 01/04/94.”

E. Dzyuba:
“Everyone was forced to accept citizenship of the Chechen Republic; if you do not accept, you will not receive food stamps.”

A. Abidzhalieva:
“They left on January 13, 1995 because the Chechens demanded that the Nogais protect them from the Russian troops. They took the cattle. They beat my brother for refusing to join the troops.”

O. Borichevsky, lived in Grozny:
“In April 1993, the apartment was attacked by Chechens dressed in riot police uniforms. They robbed and took away all valuables.”

N. Kolesnikova, born in 1969, lived in Gudermes:
“On December 2, 1993, at the stop “section 36” of the Staropromyslovsky (Staropromyslovsky) district of Grozny, 5 Chechens took me by the hands, took me to the garage, beat me, raped me, and then took me to apartments, where they raped me and injected me with drugs. They released me only on December 5 ".

E. Kyrbanova, O. Kyrbanova, L. Kyrbanov, lived in Grozny:
"Our neighbors - the T. family (mother, father, son and daughter) were found at home with signs of violent death."

T. Fefelova, lived in Grozny:
“A 12-year-old girl was stolen from neighbors (in Grozny), then they planted photographs (where she was abused and raped) and demanded a ransom.”

3. Sanieva:
“During the battles in Grozny, I saw female snipers among Dudayev’s fighters.”

L. Davydova:
“In August 1994, three Chechens entered the house of K.’s family (Gydermes). The husband was pushed under the bed, and the 47-year-old woman was brutally raped (also using various objects). A week later, K. died.
On the night of December 30-31, 1994, my kitchen was set on fire.”

T. Lisitskaya:
“I lived in Grozny near the station, and every day I watched trains being robbed.
On New Year's Eve 1995, Chechens came to me and demanded money for weapons and ammunition."

T. Sukhorykova:
“At the beginning of April 1993, a theft was committed from our apartment (Grozny).
At the end of April 1993, our VAZ-2109 car was stolen.
May 10, 1994 my husband Bagdasaryan G.3. was killed in the street by machine gun shots."

Y. Rudinskaya born in 1971:
“In 1993, Chechens armed with machine guns carried out a robbery at my apartment (Novomarevskaya station). They took away valuables, raped me and my mother, tortured me with a knife, causing bodily harm.
In the spring of 1993, my mother-in-law and father-in-law were beaten on the street (in Grozny).

V. Bochkareva:
“The Dudaevites took hostage the director of the Kalinovskaya school V. Belyaev, his deputy V. I. Plotnikov, and the chairman of the Kalinovsky collective farm Erin. They demanded a ransom of 12 million rubles... Having not received the ransom, they killed the hostages.”

Y. Nefedova:
“On January 13, 1991, my husband and I were subjected to a robbery by Chechens in our apartment (Grozny) - they took away all our valuables, including earrings.”

V. Malashin born in 1963:
“On January 9, 1995, three armed Chechens burst into T.’s apartment (Grozny), where my wife and I came to visit, robbed us, and two raped my wife, T., and E., who was in the apartment (1979 . r.)".

Yu. Usachev, F. Usachev:
“On December 18-20, 1994, we were beaten by Dudayev’s men because we did not fight on their side.”

E. Kalganova:
“My Armenian neighbors were attacked by Chechens, their 15-year-old daughter was raped.
In 1993, the family of P. E. Prokhorova was subjected to a robbery.

A. Plotnikova:
“In the winter of 1992, the Chechens took away warrants for apartments from me and my neighbors and, threatening with machine guns, ordered me to evict. I left my apartment, garage, and dacha in Grozny.
My son and daughter witnessed the murder of neighbor B. by the Chechens - he was shot with a machine gun.”

V. Makharin, born in 1959:
“On November 19, 1994, the Chechens committed a robbery attack on my family. Threatened with a machine gun, they threw my wife and children out of the car. They kicked everyone, broke their ribs. They raped my wife. They took away my GAZ-24 car and property.”

M. Vasilyeva:
“In September 1994, two Chechen fighters raped my 19-year-old daughter.”

A. Fedorov:
“In 1993, Chechens robbed my apartment.
In 1994, my car was stolen. I contacted the police. When I saw my car, in which there were armed Chechens, I also reported this to the police. They told me to forget about the car. The Chechens threatened and told me to leave Chechnya."

N. Kovrizhkin:
“In October 1992, Dudayev announced the mobilization of militants aged 15 to 50 years.
While working on the railway, the Russians, including me, were guarded by the Chechens as prisoners.
At the Gudermes station, I saw how the Chechens shot a man I didn’t know with machine guns. The Chechens said they killed a bloodline."

A. Byrmyrzaev:
“On November 26, 1994, I witnessed how Chechen militants burned 6 opposition tanks along with their crews.”

M. Panteleeva:
“In 1991, Dudayev’s militants stormed the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Chechen Republic, killing police officers, a colonel, and wounding a police major.
In Grozny, the rector of the oil institute was kidnapped and the vice-rector was killed.
Armed militants burst into my parents' apartment - three in masks. One - in a police uniform, at gunpoint and torture with a hot iron, they took away 750 thousand rubles... and stole a car."

E. Dudina, born in 1954:
“In the summer of 1994, Chechens beat me on the street for no reason. They beat me, my son and my husband. They took my son’s watch. Then they dragged me into the entrance and performed sexual intercourse in a perverted form.
One woman I know told me that when she was traveling to Krasnodar in 1993, the train was stopped, armed Chechens entered and took away money and valuables. A young girl was raped in the vestibule and thrown out of the carriage (already at full speed).

I. Udalova:
“On August 2, 1994, at night two Chechens burst into my house (the city of Gudermes), my mother was cut in the neck, we managed to fight off, I recognized one of the attackers as a schoolmate. I filed a statement with the police, after which they began to harass me and threaten my life son. I sent my relatives to the Stavropol region, then left myself. My persecutors blew up my house on November 21, 1994."

V. Fedorova:
“In mid-April 1993, my friend’s daughter was dragged into a car (Grozny) and taken away. After some time, she was found murdered and raped.
A friend of mine from home, whom a Chechen tried to rape while visiting, was caught that same evening on the way home by the Chechens and raped her all night.
On May 15-17, 1993, two young Chechens tried to rape me at the entrance to my house. The next door neighbor, an elderly Chechen, fought me off.
In September 1993, when I was driving to the station with an acquaintance, my acquaintance was pulled out of the car, kicked, and then one of the Chechen attackers kicked me in the face.”

S. Grigoryants:
“During Dudayev’s reign, Aunt Sarkis’s husband was killed, his car was taken away, then my grandmother’s sister and her granddaughter disappeared.”

N. Zyuzina:
“On August 7, 1994, work colleague Sh.Yu.L. and his wife were captured by armed bandits. On August 9, his wife was released, she said that they were beaten, tortured, they demanded a ransom, she was released for money. On September 5, 1994, mutilated Sh.’s body was found in the area of ​​the chemical plant.”

M. Olev:
“In October 1993, our employee A.S. (born 1955, a train dispatcher), was raped for about 18 hours right at the station and several people were beaten. At the same time, a dispatcher named Sveta (b. 1964) was raped. The police talked to criminals in Chechen style and released them."

V. Rozvanov:
“The Chechens tried to steal their daughter Vika three times, twice she ran away, and the third time they saved her.
Son Sasha was robbed and beaten.
In September 1993, they robbed me, took off my watch and hat.
In December 1994, 3 Chechens searched the apartment, broke the TV, ate, drank and left."

A. Vitkov:
“In 1992, T.V., born in 1960, mother of three young children, was raped and shot.
They tortured neighbors, an elderly husband and wife, because the children sent things (container) to Russia. The Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs refused to look for the criminals."

B. Yaroshenko:
“More than once during 1992, Chechens in Grozny beat me, robbed my apartment, and smashed my car because I refused to take part in hostilities with the opposition on the side of the Dudayevites.”

V. Osipova:
“She left because of oppression. She worked at a plant in Grozny. In 1991, armed Chechens came to the plant and forced Russians out to vote. Then unbearable conditions were created for the Russians, widespread robberies began, garages were blown up and cars were taken away.
In May 1994, my son, Osipov V.E., was leaving Grozny; armed Chechens did not allow me to load my things. Then the same thing happened to me, all things were declared the “property of the republic.”

K. Deniskina:
“I was forced to leave in October 1994 due to the situation: constant shooting, armed robberies, murders.
On November 22, 1992, Dudayev Hussein tried to rape my daughter, beat me, and threatened to kill me."

A. Rodionova:
“At the beginning of 1993, warehouses with weapons were destroyed in Grozny, they were arming themselves. It got to the point that children went to school with weapons. Institutions and schools were closed.
In mid-March 1993, three armed Chechens broke into the apartment of their Armenian neighbors and took away valuables.
I was an eyewitness in October 1993 to the murder of a young guy whose stomach was ripped open during the day.”

H. Berezina:
“We lived in the village of Assinovsky. Our son was constantly beaten at school, he was forced not to go there. At my husband’s work (local state farm), Russians were removed from leadership positions.”

L. Gostinina:
“In August 1993 in Grozny, when I was walking down the street with my daughter, in broad daylight a Chechen grabbed my daughter (born in 1980), hit me, dragged her into his car and took her away. Two hours later she returned home, she said that she was raped.
Russians were humiliated in every way. In particular, in Grozny, near the Printing House there was a poster: “Russians, don’t leave, we need slaves.”
Picture taken from: Wrath of the People and Sergey Ovcharenko shared a photo of Andrey Afanasyev.