How Chechens mocked Russian prisoners. Mercenaries cut out the hearts of Russian soldiers. Why were prisoners needed?

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The British newspaper The Sunday Times published excerpts from the personal diary of a high-ranking Russian special forces officer who participated in the second Chechen war. Columnist Mark Franchetti, who independently translated the text from Russian into English, writes in his commentary that nothing like this has ever been published.

“The text does not pretend to be a historical review of the war. This is the author's story. A testimony that took 10 years to write, a blood-curdling chronicle of executions, torture, revenge and despair over 20 business trips to Chechnya,” he characterizes this publication in the article “The War in Chechnya: Diary of a Killer”, which InoPressa refers to.

Excerpts from the diary contain descriptions of military operations, the treatment of prisoners and the death of comrades in battle, impartial statements about command. “In order to protect the author from punishment, his personality, the names of people and geographical names omitted,” says Franchetti.

The author of the notes calls Chechnya “damned” and “bloody”. The conditions in which they had to live and fight drove even such strong and “trained” men as special forces crazy. He describes cases when their nerves gave out and they began to rush at each other, arranging brawls, or mocked the corpses of militants, cutting off their ears and noses.

At the beginning of the above entries, apparently related to one of the first business trips, the author writes that he felt sorry for the Chechen women, whose husbands, sons and brothers joined the militants. So, in one of the villages where the Russian unit entered and where wounded militants remained, two women turned to him with a plea to release one of them. He accepted their request.

“I could have executed him on the spot at that moment. But I felt sorry for the women, ”the commando writes. “Women did not know how to thank me, they shoved money into my hands. I took the money, but it settled on my soul like a heavy burden. I felt guilty before our dead guys.”

The rest of the wounded Chechens, according to the diary, were treated quite differently. “They were dragged outside, stripped naked and stuffed into a truck. Some walked on their own, others were beaten and pushed. One Chechen, who lost both feet, climbed out on his own, walking on his stumps. After a few steps he lost consciousness and sank to the ground. The soldiers beat him, stripped him naked and threw him into a truck. I didn't feel sorry for the prisoners. It was just an unpleasant sight, ”the soldier writes.

According to him, the local population looked at the Russians with hatred, and the wounded militants - with such hatred and contempt that the hand itself involuntarily reached for the weapon. He says that the departed Chechens left a wounded Russian captive in that village. They broke his arms and legs so that he could not escape.

In another case, the author describes a fierce battle during which the special forces drove the militants out of the house where they sat down. After the battle, the soldiers ransacked the building and found several mercenaries in the basement who fought on the side of the Chechens. “They all turned out to be Russians and fought for money,” he writes. “They started screaming, begging us not to kill them because they have families and children. Well, so what? We ourselves didn’t end up in this hole straight from the orphanage either. We executed everyone."

“The truth is that the courage of people fighting in Chechnya is not appreciated,” the commando says in his diary. As an example, he cites a case about which the soldiers of another detachment told him, with whom they spent one of the nights together. In front of one of their guys, his twin brother was killed, but not only was he not demoralized, but he desperately continued to fight.

"This is how people go missing"

Quite often in the records there are descriptions of how the military destroyed traces of their activities related to the use of torture or executions of captured Chechens. In one place, the author writes that one of the dead militants was wrapped in polyethylene, thrust into a well filled with liquid mud, covered with TNT and blown up. “This is how people go missing,” he adds.

They did the same with a group of Chechen suicide bombers who were captured on a tip from their shelter. One of them was in her 40s, the other was barely 15. “They were stoned and smiled at us all the time. On the basis of all three interrogated. At first, the eldest, a recruiter of suicide bombers, refused to speak. But this changed after beatings and exposure to electric shocks,” the author writes.

As a result, the suicide bombers were executed, and the bodies were blown up to hide the evidence. “So, in the end, they got what they dreamed of,” says the soldier.

"The upper echelons of the army are full of mud**ov"

Many passages of the diary contain sharp criticism of the command, as well as politicians who send others to their deaths, while they themselves remain in complete safety and impunity.

“Once I was struck by the words of an idiot general: he was asked why the families of the sailors who died on the Kursk nuclear submarine were paid large compensation, and the soldiers killed in Chechnya are still waiting for theirs. “Because the losses at the Kursk were unforeseen, while they are predicted in Chechnya,” he said. So we are cannon fodder. The upper echelons of the army are full of wits like him, ”the text says.

On another occasion, he tells how his unit was ambushed because they were deceived by their own commander. “The Chechen, who promised him several AK-47s, persuaded him to help him commit a blood feud. There were no rebels in the house that he sent us to clean up, ”the commando writes.

“When we returned to the base, the dead guys were lying in bags on the runway. I opened one of the bags, took my friend's hand and said: "I'm sorry." Our commander did not even take the trouble to say goodbye to the guys. He was drunk as hell. At that moment, I hated him. He always didn't care about the guys, he just used them to make a career. Later, he even tried to blame me for the failed purge. Mu**k. Sooner or later he will pay for his sins,” the author curses.

“It’s a pity that you can’t go back and fix something”

The notes also talk about how the war affected the soldier's personal life - in Chechnya he constantly missed home, his wife and children, and returning, he constantly quarreled with his wife, often got drunk with colleagues and often did not spend the night at home. Going on one of the long business trips, from where he could no longer return alive, he did not even say goodbye to his wife, who had rewarded him with a slap in the face the day before.

“I often think about the future. How much more suffering awaits us? How much longer can we hold out? For what?" - writes the commando. “I have a lot of good memories, but only of guys who really risked their lives for a part. Too bad you can't go back and fix things. All I can do is try to avoid the same mistakes and try my best to live a normal life.”

“I gave spetsnaz 14 years of my life, lost many, many close friends; for what? At the bottom of my heart, I am left with pain and a feeling that I was treated dishonestly,” he continues. And the final phrase of the publication is as follows: “I regret only one thing - that maybe, if I behaved differently in battle, some guys would still be alive.”

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Andrey Veselov
Russians were humiliated by all means in Grozny, a poster hung at the House of Press: Russians, do not leave, we need slaves
In 1991-1992, tens of thousands of Russians were slaughtered 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 in the real estate business. And for this, a whole system of signs was developed. Human intestines wound on a fence meant: the owner is no more, there are only women in the house, ready for "love". Women's bodies, planted on the same fence: the house is free, you can move in ...
I saw columns of buses, which, because of the stench, could not be approached for a hundred meters, because they were packed with the bodies of slaughtered Russians. I saw women neatly sawn lengthwise with a chainsaw, children impaled on poles from road signs, guts artistically wound around a fence. We Russians have been cleaned from our own land like dirt from under fingernails. And it was 1992 - before the "first Chechen" there were still two and a half years left ...
During the first Chechen war, videos were captured of underage Vainakhs having fun with Russian women. They put women on all fours and threw knives as if at a target, trying to get into the vagina. All this was filmed and commented ...

Then came the "fun times". Russians began to be slaughtered in the streets in broad daylight. In front of my eyes, in line for bread, one Russian guy was surrounded by Vainakhs, one of whom spat on the floor and offered the Russian to lick the spit off the floor. When he refused, they cut open his stomach with a knife. Chechens burst into a parallel class right during the lesson, chose the three most attractive Russian high school girls and dragged them away. Then we learned that the girls were given as a birthday present to the local Chechen authority.
And then it got really fun. The militants came to the village and began to clean it from the Russians. At night, the screams of people who were being raped and slaughtered in their own home were sometimes heard. And no one came to their aid. Everyone was for himself, everyone was shaking with fear, and some managed to bring an ideological basis to this matter, they say, “my house is my fortress” (yes, dear Rodo, I heard this phrase right then. The person who uttered it was already not alive - his guts were wound by the Vainakhs on the fence of his own house). This is how we, cowardly and stupid, were cut out one by one. Tens of thousands of Russians were killed, several thousand fell into slavery and Chechen harems, hundreds of thousands fled Chechnya in their shorts.
This is how the Vainakhs solved the "Russian question" in a single republic.
The video was filmed by militants in 1999 during the invasion of Basayev's group into Dagestan. On the way of the grouping was our checkpoint, the personnel of which, seeing the militants, crap 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. For the rest, fate gave one more chance to die like a human being. Any of them could stand up and make the last sharp movement in their lives - if not to cling to the enemy with their teeth, then at least take a knife or an automatic burst on 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 sheep's death.
This is a one-on-one situation with Russians in Chechnya. There we behaved in exactly the same way. And we were cut out the same way.
By the way, I always showed trophy Chechen videos to every young recruit in my platoon, and then in the company, and even less glamorous than the one presented. My fighters looked at torture, and at ripping open the stomach, and at sawing off the head with a hacksaw. Looked carefully. After that, none of them could even think of surrendering.
In the same place, in 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 communication was lost with the 131st Motorized Rifle Brigade and the 81st Motorized Rifle Regiment, we were sent to help. We broke through to the location of 8 AK, commanded by General Rokhlin, and arrived at his headquarters. That was the first time I saw him in person. And he somehow didn’t seem to me at first glance: hunched, with a cold, with cracked glasses ... Not a general, but some kind of tired agronomist. He set us the task of gathering the scattered remnants of the Maikop brigade and the 81st regiment and bringing them to the air defense of the Rokhlin reconnaissance battalion. This is what we did - we collected meat that had pissed from fear in the cellars and took it to the location of the Rokhlin scouts. There were about two mouths 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 encirclement in the city center. Against all militants! And then Rokhlin built this "army" opposite the formation of his fighters and addressed them with a speech. I will never forget this speech. The most affectionate expressions of the general were: "fucking monkeys" and "p @ daras." In 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 down here, let each of us be found under a pile 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 - he was dealt with without you. One less Jew, isn't it?
And then there was a terrible, terrible battle, in which six of my platoon of 19 people survived. And when the Chechens broke into the location and it came to the grenades, and we realized that we all got p@zdets - I saw real Russian people. There was no more fear. There was some kind of cheerful anger, detachment from everything. There was one thought in my head: "dad" asked me not to let you down. The wounded bandaged themselves, themselves were chipped with promedol and continued the fight.
Then the Vainakhs and I got into hand-to-hand combat. And they ran. It was a 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 could do it. We have this solid core, it only needs to be cleaned of adhering shit. We took prisoners in hand-to-hand combat. Looking at us, they did not even whine - they howled in horror. And then they read the radio intercept to us - Dudayev's order went through the radio networks of the militants: "The scouts from 8AK and the special forces of the Airborne Forces should not be taken prisoner and not tortured, but immediately finished off and buried like soldiers." We are very proud of this order.
Then comes the understanding that neither the Chechens, nor the Armenians, nor the Jews, in fact, are to blame. They only do to us what we allow ourselves to do to ourselves.
Think what you are doing and study history. And the excuse that you need to follow the order is complacency, there is always a way to refuse to follow the order, to resign, so to speak. And if everyone responsibly approached the decision of the fate of the Motherland and resigned, then there would be no Chechen massacre.
I am grateful to the Chechens as teachers for the lesson taught. They helped me see my true enemy - the cowardly ram and pi @ aras, who firmly settled in my own head.
And you continue to fight the Jews and other "untrue Aryans." I wish you success.
If the Russians were men, no troops would be needed. The population of Chechnya by 1990 was approximately 1.3-1.4 million people, of which 600-700 thousand were Russians. Grozny has about 470,000 inhabitants, of which at least 300,000 are Russians. In the original Cossack regions - Naursky, Shelkovsky and Nadterechny - Russians were about 70%. On our own soil, we have merged with the enemy, who is inferior to us in numbers two or three times.
And when the troops were brought in, there was practically no one to save.
Yeltsin - Aklash could not do this, but here is the Jew Berezovsky with the company completely. And the facts of his cooperation with the Chechens are well known. As the grandfather said, the generalissimo was captured.
This does not justify the performers. Weapons were handed out to the Vainakhs not by the Jew Berezovsky, but by the Russian Grachev (by the way, he was a paratrooper, a hero of Afghanistan). But when “human rights activists” dragged themselves to Rokhlin and offered to surrender to the Chechens under their guarantees, Rokhlin ordered to put them on cancer and kick them to the front lines. So it does not 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 have affected each of us in particular, and our entire former Country as a whole. This is from an economic point of view.
But I also have non-economic questions for him. In January 1995, the aforementioned gentleman, as part of a large delegation of "human rights activists" (headed 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, as if not more intense than Kovalev. Under Gaidar's "personal guarantees" 72 people surrendered. Subsequently, their mutilated, with traces of torture, corpses were found in the area of ​​the cannery, Katayama and Sq. Minute.
This Smart and beautiful hand in blood not to the elbow, but to the very ears.
He was lucky - he died on his own, without trial or execution.
But the moment will come when, according to Russian traditions, his rotten offal is 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 the fallen soldiers who lost the battle.
Our ancestors handed us a great country, and we pissed it off. And in fact, we are all not even sheep, but just fucking sheep. Because our country has perished, and we, who took an oath to defend it "to the last drop of blood", are still alive.
But. Awareness of this unpleasant fact helps us "squeeze a slave out of ourselves drop by drop", develop and temper character. http://www.facebook.com/groups/russian.region/permalink/482339108511015/
Further facts:
Chechnya Excerpts from testimonies of internally displaced persons who fled from Chechnya
Russians! Don't leave, we need slaves!
http://www.facebook.com/groups/russouz/p ermalink/438080026266711/
“Excerpts from the testimonies of forced migrants who fled from Chechnya in the period from 1991-1995. The vocabulary of the authors has been preserved. Some names have been changed. (Chechnya.ru)
A. Kochedykova, lived in Grozny:
“I left the city of Grozny in February 1993 due to constant threats of action from armed Chechens and non-payment of pensions and wages. I left the apartment with all the 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 hit her head, broke her ribs, and raped her.
A war veteran Elena Ivanovna was also killed from an apartment nearby.
In 1993, it became impossible to live there, they were killed all around. Cars were blown up right with people. Russians were fired from work for no reason.
A man born in 1935 was killed in the apartment. Nine stab wounds were inflicted on him, 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 they couldn’t, because it was being repaired. They shot over my head.
In the autumn 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. Gakyryany, lived in Grozny:
"In November 1994, Chechen neighbors threatened to kill with a gun, and then kicked out of the apartment and settled in it 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. Dapkylinets, lived in Grozny:
"On December 6 and 7, 1994, he was severely beaten for refusing to participate in Dydayev's militia as part of Ukrainian militants in the village of Chechen-Aul."

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

G. Tarasova, lived in Grozny:
"On May 6, 1993, my husband went missing in the city of Grozny. A.F. Tarasov. I suppose 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 at the moment when they were cleaning up the corpses of Russian soldiers in the street."

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

V. Ageeva, lived in Art. Petropavlovskaya, Grozny district:
"On January 11, 1995, in the village on the square, Dydayev's militants shot Russian soldiers."

M. Khrapova, lived in the city of Gudermes:
"In August 1992, our neighbor, R. S. Sargsyan, and his wife, Z. S. Sarkisyan, were tortured and burned alive."

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

T. Aleksandrova, 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 had to leave Grozny."

T. Vdovchenko, lived in Grozny:
“A neighbor in the stairwell, a KGB officer V. Tolstenok, was pulled 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 this (address K. not specified, the event took place in Grozny in 1991)".

V. Nazarenko, lived in Grozny:
“He lived in the city of Grozny until November 1992. Dydayev condoned the fact that crimes were openly committed against the Russians, and for this no one from the Chechens was punished.
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 his position."

O. Shepetilo, born in 1961:
"She lived in Grozny until the end of April 1994. She worked in the village of Kalinovskaya, Nayrsky p-by director music school. At the end of 1993, I was returning from work from Art. Kalinovskaya in Grozny. There was no bus, and I went to the city on foot. A Zhiguli car drove up to me, a Chechen with a Kalashnikov assault rifle got out of it and, threatening to kill me, shoved me into the car, drove me to the field, mocked me for a long time, raped and beat me.

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

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

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

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

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

Y. Pletneva, born in 1970:
“In the summer of 1994, at 1 pm, I witnessed the execution on Khrushchev Square of 2 Chechens, 1 Russian and 1 Korean. The execution was carried out by four Dydaev’s guards, who brought victims in foreign cars.
At the beginning of 1994, a Chechen was playing with a grenade on Khrushchev Square. The check jumped off, the player and several other people who were nearby were injured.
There were many weapons in the city, almost every inhabitant of Grozny was a Chechen.
The Chechen neighbor got drunk, made noise, threatened with perverted rape and murder."

A. Fedyushkin, born in 1945:
"In 1992, unknown persons armed with a pistol took away the car from my godfather, who lives in the village of Chervlennaya.
In 1992 or 1993, two Chechens, armed with a pistol and a knife, tied up his wife (b. 1949) and eldest daughter (b. 1973), committed violent acts against them, took away the TV set, gas stove and disappeared. The attackers were wearing masks.
In 1992 in Art. Scarlet my mother was robbed by some men, taking away the icon and the cross, causing bodily harm.
Brother's neighbor, who lived in St. Chervlennaya left the village in his car VAZ-2121 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, the granddaughter was taken away in a car, but was soon released.
In Art. In Nizhnedeviyk (Assinovka), armed Chechens raped all the girls and teachers in the orphanage.
Neighbor Yunys threatened my son with murder and demanded that he sell the house to him.
At the end of 1991, armed Chechens broke into my relative's house, demanded money, threatened to kill, and killed my son."

S. Akinshin (born 1961):
"August 25, 1992 at about 12 o'clock on the territory suburban area 4 Chechens entered 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):
"August 25, 1992, at about 12 o'clock at a dacha near the 3rd city hospital in Grozny, four Chechens aged 15-16 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. After that, under the threat of murder, I was forced to have sexual intercourse with my dog."

H. Lobenko:
"In the entrance of my house, persons of Chechen nationality shot 1 Armenian and 1 Russian. The Russian was killed for standing up for an Armenian."

T. Zabrodina:
“There was a case when my bag was torn out.
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 how the neighbor's house was robbed. At this time, the residents were in a bomb shelter.

O. Kalchenko:
“My employee, a 22-year-old girl, was raped and shot by Chechens in the street near our work in front of my eyes.
I myself was robbed by two Chechens, under the threat of a knife they took away the last money.

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

E. Dziuba:
"Everyone was forced to take citizenship of the Chechen Republic, if you don't, you won't get food stamps."

A. Abidzhalieva:
"They left on January 13, 1995, because the Chechens demanded that the Nogais protect them from 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."

H. Kolesnikova, born in 1969, lived in Gudermes:
“On December 2, 1993, at the stop “plot 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 drove me around the apartments, where they raped me and injected 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 fighting in Grozny, I saw female snipers among Dydayev's fighters."

L. Davydova:
“In August 1994, three Chechens entered the house of the K. family (Gydermes). Myzha was pushed under the bed, and a 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 the city of Grozny near the railway station, every day I watched trains being robbed.
On the night of the new year, 1995, Chechens came to me and demanded money for weapons and ammunition."

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

Ya. Rudinskaya, born in 1971:
“In 1993, Chechens armed with machine guns committed a robbery attack on my apartment (Novomaryevskaya station). Valuable things were taken out, my mother and I were raped, tortured with a knife, causing bodily injuries.
In the spring of 1993, my mother-in-law and father-in-law were beaten on the street (Grozny).

V. Bochkarev:
"The Dydayevites took hostage the director of the school in the village of Kalinovskaya Belyaev V., his deputy Plotnikov V.I., 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."

Ya. Nefedova:
"On January 13, 1991, my husband and I were subjected to a robbery attack by Chechens in my apartment (Grozny) - they took away all valuable things, right down to the earrings from my ears."

V. Malashin, born in 1963:
“On January 9, 1995, three armed Chechens broke into the apartment of T. (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 the Dudayevites for not fighting on their side."

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

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

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

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

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

N. Kovpizhkin:
"In October 1992, Dydayev announced the mobilization of militants aged 15 to 50.
While working on the railway, Russians, including me, were guarded by Chechens as prisoners.
At the Gydermes station, I saw how the Chechens shot a man I did not know from machine guns. The Chechens said that they had killed a blood lover."

A. Bypmypzaev:
"On November 26, 1994, I was an eyewitness to how Chechen fighters burned 6 opposition tanks along with their crews."

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

E. Dydina, born in 1954:
“In the summer of 1994, Chechens beat me up on the street for no reason. They beat me, my son and husband. They took off my son’s watch.
One woman I knew told me that when she was traveling to Krasnodar in 1993, the train was stopped, armed Chechens entered and took away money and valuables. In the vestibule they raped and threw out of the car (already at full speed) a young girl.

I. Udalova:
"On August 2, 1994, at night, two Chechens broke into my house (Gydermes), my mother cut her neck, we managed to fight back, I recognized a schoolmate in one of the attackers. I filed a complaint with the police, after which they began to persecute me, threaten my life son. I sent my relatives to the Stavropol Territory, then left on my own. My persecutors blew up my house on November 21, 1994."

V. Fedorova:
"In mid-April 1993, the daughter of my friend was dragged into a car (Grozny) and taken away. Some time later she was found murdered, she was raped.
My friend at home, whom a Chechen tried to rape at a party, was caught by the Chechens on the way home the same evening and raped her all night.
On May 15-17, 1993, two young Chechens tried to rape me in the entrance of my house. Repulsed neighbor on the entrance, an elderly Chechen.
In September 1993, when I was driving to the station with a friend, my friend was dragged out of the car, kicked, and then one of the attacking Chechens kicked me in the face."

S. Grigoryants:
"During the reign of Dydaev, aunt Sarkis's husband was killed, the car was taken away, then my grandmother's sister and her granddaughter disappeared."

H. Zyuzina:
“On August 7, 1994, a work colleague Sh. Yu. Sh.'s body was found in the area of ​​the chemical plant."

M. Olev:
“In October 1993, our employee A.S. (1955, a train sender) was raped at 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 Chechen-style criminals and let them go."

V. Rozvanov:
"Three times the Chechens tried to steal Vika's daughter, twice she ran away, and the third time she was rescued.
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, smashed the TV set, ate, drank and left."

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

B. Yaposhenko:
"Repeatedly during 1992, Chechens in Grozny beat me up, robbed my apartment, smashed my car for refusing to take part in hostilities with the opposition on the side of the Dydayevites."

V. Osipova:
“She left because of harassment. She worked at a factory in Grozny. In 1991, armed Chechens arrived at the factory and forcibly expelled Russians to the elections. Then unbearable conditions were created for the Russians, general robberies began, garages were blown up and cars were taken away.
In May 1994, the son, Osipov V.E., was leaving Grozny, armed Chechens did not allow him to load things. Then it happened to me too, all things were declared "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, Khusein Dydaev tried to rape my daughter, beat me, threatened to kill me."

A. Rodionova:
"In the beginning of 1993 in Grozny they destroyed weapons depots, armed 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.
She was an eyewitness in October 1993 to the murder of a young guy who had his stomach ripped open right in the afternoon.

H. Berezina:
"We lived in the village of Assinovsky. My son was constantly beaten at school, he was forced not to go there. At his 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 (b. 1980), hit me, dragged her into his car and took her away. Two hours later she returned home, said that she was raped.
Russians were humiliated in every way. In particular, in Grozny, near the Press House, there was a poster: “Russians, don’t leave, we need slaves.”
Image taken from: Anger of the People and Sergey Ovcharenko shared a photo of Andrey Afanasiev.

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Supreme Court Chechen Republic sentenced a certain Ilyas Dashaev to 25 years in prison. Only one episode of the criminal activity of this young man, born in 1982, appears in the verdict. This case nevertheless goes beyond all limits both in its savagery and in its cruelty.

The court found that Dashaev, a native of the village of Gekhi, as part of an armed gang commanded by the infamous thug Islam Chalaev, kidnapped three people in early October 2001 - two women and a man. The bandits took them to the village of Alkhan-Kala. At first they were interrogated and beaten. Then one woman's head was cut off, the second was shot, and the man was released. The gangsters recorded the crime on video, which later became the starting point for the investigators of the republican prosecutor's office.

At one time, many shocking records circulated around Chechnya. But then the investigators were faced with the fact that the bandits abducted a family in which the husband Khasan Edilgireev was a Chechen, and his wife Tatyana Usmanova was Russian. Her friend Lena Gaevskaya was also Russian. Later, at the trial, the only defendant Dashaev - the rest of the gang members, along with the leader, had been destroyed by that time - tried to imagine that the family had been kidnapped, allegedly for cooperation with the federal authorities. But the prosecutor thought otherwise. The footage of the terrible video captures the last moments of the life of unfortunate women, and those who can stand the nerve to watch the recording to the end will understand that the murders were committed only because, according to the bandits, the Russian woman should not have lived with a Chechen in peace and one family .

By the early 2000s, the situation in Chechnya had changed a lot compared to the mid-nineties. If in the first Chechen campaign Chechens did not have to be persuaded to fight the federals, then after the attack of the Basayev and Khattab gangs on Dagestan, people began to look at the role of the so-called field commanders in a completely different way. Many Chechens realized that their real enemies were not in Russia at all, and began to help the federal government to establish a peaceful life in the ruined republic. It was the bandits of Chalaev who did not give rest. Therefore, after killing his wife and her friend, they released the Chechen. The prosecutor's office is sure that the Chechen Edilgireev was left alive not because he cooperated with the authorities less than his wife. The bandits had to defiantly play off Russian population with the Chechens. Therefore, they filmed everything, for this they later replicated terrible footage of Chechnya.

In front of the husband, his wife was laid on the ground and a hole was dug to drain the blood. Dashaev held the unfortunate hands and feet. Arbi Khaskhanov was the first to approach the victim with a knife. He made several incisions on the woman's neck. Then Adlan Baraev took up the knife, who also slashed the throat with a real butcher's movement. The work was completed by Dashaev, who separated the woman's head from the body, and then stood up and, holding her by the hair, began to pose for the camera with a satisfied look. The cameraman, another of the bandits, the notorious Khamzat Tazabaev, nicknamed Tazik, satisfied with filming the terrible action. Edilgireev still cannot recall without a shudder the cruelty with which they killed his wife. The video shows that the executioners like their "work".

The prosecutor's office at the trial demanded a life sentence for Dashaev, but the court did not agree with the arguments of the state prosecutor. The judge, although he considered Dashaev's guilt proven, gave the defendant 25 years. The prosecutor's office did not agree with the verdict and one of these days is going to file a cassation submission.

She believes that a demonstrative terrible murder requires the maximum punishment. The bandits who are trying to kindle the flames of ethnic hatred with such bloody acts should know that only one prospect awaits them - to sit behind bars for the rest of their days.

September 1999. Dagestan. It has been a month since the flames of the “liberation” war unleashed in the mountains of Botlikh, Tsumadinsky and Buynaksky regions have been blazing. She swooped in from neighboring Chechnya unexpectedly and treacherously.

There in the mountains there is a war, but here, to the north, in the Novolaksky district, it is relatively calm. On the eve, however, the militia commander shared information that several thousand militants had accumulated on the other side, but somehow it was hard to believe that such forces were gathered behind the verdant peaceful hills. The militants are already having a hard time. Most likely, a detachment of some local field commander simply became more active.

The head of a small outpost, which occupied a dominant height on the southwestern outskirts of the village of Tukhchar only five days ago, senior lieutenant Vasily Tashkin did not guess and, having got in touch with Vershina, he reported the situation to his command, adding that behind them with that parties are under observation.

In response, he was instructed to triple his vigilance and set up additional observation posts. Across the Aksai River is Chechnya, the large village of Ishkhoy-Yurt is a gangster's nest. The outpost is ready for battle. The position for the bempeshka was chosen well. The trenches are equipped, the firing sectors are targeted. And the garrison of the outpost is not green youth, but twelve proven fighters. Plus, the neighbors are the militia on the left and two posts of the Dagestan police below, to reinforce which the Kalachevskys arrived - servicemen of the operational brigade internal troops. Only ammunition would be enough: in addition to the BMP-2 with full ammunition, there is also a PC with seven hundred rounds of ammunition, SVD and 120 rounds for it, an old Kalashnikov handbrake with three hundred and sixty rounds and four magazines from machine gunners. From the platoon lock, he also has an underbarrel grenade launcher and four grenades each - ergedeshki. Not a lot, but in which case they promised to send help: the battalion is stationed in Duchi, it's not far.

However, in war as in war.

- Tyulenev, - Tashkin called the sergeant, - Vershina again asks to increase vigilance. I'll check the posts tonight!
The night was stuffy and moonlit. Two kilometers away, the ominous lights of a Chechen village shone, there was a strong smell of mint, and restless grasshoppers chirped in the grass until morning, making it difficult to listen to the silence of the night.

As soon as dawn broke, Tashkin picked up the resting fighters and with a sniper moved to the neighboring hill, from where, from the positions of the militia, what was happening on the adjacent side could be seen much better even without optics. From here it was clearly visible how the Chechens, almost without hiding, were fording a shallow river. The last doubts were dispelled, this is war. When the militants, marching in a dense line, became visible to the naked eye, Tashkin gave the command to open fire. The silence was broken by a burst of machine-gun fire, two militants walking in front fell, and other guns rumbled and rattled after them. The outpost accepted the battle when the sun barely appeared from behind the mountains. The day promised to be hot.

As it turned out, the militants still outwitted the Kalachevites. For the same reasons that the outpost could not be taken head-on, with the main forces they hit it from the rear, from the Dagestan village of Gamiyakh. I immediately had to forget about all the carefully calibrated sectors of fire and leave the equipped position for the infantry. She turned into a nomadic, causing effective damage to the enemy "shaitan-arba".

The militants realized that it was not possible to bring down the fighters from a height, and without this it was risky to enter the village. Having entrenched themselves on its outskirts, in the area of ​​​​the village cemetery, they tried to get soldiers out of there. But it was not easy for them to do so. No less steadfastly, supported from a high-rise by fire, the Dagestan policemen fought below. But the poorly armed militias were forced to leave their positions, which were immediately occupied by militants.

Field commander Umar, who was in charge of operations from nearby Ishkhoy-Yurt, was noticeably nervous. For the second hour, his detachment, which was part of the so-called Islamic Special Purpose Regiment, was actually marking time.

But the unequal battle could not last forever. Ammunition was running out, strength was fading, the number of wounded was increasing. The militants have already captured one checkpoint, and then the village police department. Now they broke into the village and almost surrounded the hill. And soon the BMP was also shot down, which only lingered for a minute longer in the field of view of the enemy, aiming at the ZIL crossing the river with bearded men. The crew of the heroic "kopeck piece" managed to get out, but the gunner of the Siberian private Alexei Polagaev was severely burned by fire.

The sight of burning equipment with exploding ammunition caused the militants to rejoice, diverting their attention from the servicemen who continued to hold the height for some time. But the commander, realizing that now it was not only dangerous, but also impossible, and most importantly, inexpedient, decided to leave. There was only one way - down to the policemen holding the defense of the second checkpoint. Under the cover of a smoky car, they were able to go down the hill, taking all the wounded with them. Thirteen more people were added to the eighteen defenders of the now only point of resistance in the village of Tukhchar.

The Russian officer managed to save the lives of all his subordinates by leading them off the hill. At 7.30 am on September 5, the connection between Vershina and the Tukhchar outpost was interrupted. Realizing that it was not possible to destroy the federals, and during the next assault there would be losses, to the last defenders who sat behind the concrete blocks
village militants sent elders:

The militants were told to come out without weapons, guaranteed life.
“We won’t give up,” came the reply.

There is still a chance to get out of the battle, they thought, saving their lives, weapons and honor. After counting and dividing the cartridges, fraternally embracing in the end, the soldiers and policemen, covering each other with fire, rushed to the nearest houses. The wounded were dragged along. Having fallen under heavy fire from the militants, Senior Lieutenant Tashkin and four other soldiers jumped into the nearest building.

A few seconds before that, police sergeant Abdulkasim Magomedov died here. At the same moment, the semi-collapsed building was surrounded, and it was not possible to leave. Ammunition was running out. The militants again offer to surrender. However, they themselves do not risk going to storm the temporary building, where only a handful of armed people have settled. They put pressure on the psyche. They promise to burn them alive if they refuse. Gasoline is ready. Give time to think. In the end, they send in a truce, the owner of the temporary hut, who turned gray in one day. Did our guys have any hesitation at that moment?

Everyone wants to live forever. This is especially acute in a moment of calm, when you realize that life is so beautiful! And the sun, so gentle, now already at its zenith, was so bright, so life-affirming. The day was really hot.

Vasily Tashkin did not believe in the sweet speeches of the militants. The prophetic heart and some experience told the officer that these nonhumans would not leave them alive. But looking at his boys, in whose eyes HOPE was read, the officer nevertheless made up his mind and left the shelter ...

Having instantly disarmed the fighters, roughly pushing them in the back with butts, the fighters drove the soldiers towards the smoking ruins of the checkpoint. The burnt and wounded BMP gunner, private Alexei Polagaev, was also soon brought here. The soldier, dressed in civilian clothes, was hidden in her house by Gurum Dzhaparova. Did not help. The militants were told about the guy's whereabouts by local Chechen boys.

The meeting about the fate of the servicemen was short-lived. Amir Umar on the radio station ordered the "execution of Russian dogs", they put too many of his soldiers in battle.

- The first to be brought to execution was Private Boris Erdneev from Kalmykia. The blade cut his throat. The inhabitants of Tukhchar, numb with horror, watched the massacre. The soldiers were defenseless, but not broken. They passed away undefeated.


They died in Tukhchar

Execution of Russian soldiers Chechen fighters filmed on a video camera, which dispassionately recorded the last minutes of the life of the soldiers.

Someone accepts death silently, someone escapes from the hands of the executioners.

Now, not far from the place of execution, there is again a checkpoint of the Dagestan police, covering the road to the Chechen village of Galayty. Five years have passed, much has changed in relations between neighboring republics. But the inhabitants of Tukhchar also look with apprehension and distrust in the direction of a restless and unpredictable neighbor.

There is no more military outpost on the high-rise. Instead, rises Orthodox cross, a symbol of the eternal victory of life over death. There were thirteen of them, six died, ascending to Golgotha. Let's remember their names:

"Cargo - 200" arrived on the Kizner land. In the battles for the liberation of Dagestan from bandit formations, a native of the village of Ishek of the Zvezda collective farm and a graduate of our school Alexei Ivanovich Paranin died. Alexey was born on January 25, 1980. Graduated from Verkhnetyzhminsk basic school. He was a very inquisitive, lively, courageous boy. Then he studied at the Mozhginsky GPTU No. 12, where he received the profession of a bricklayer. True, he did not have time to work, he was drafted into the army. He served in the North Caucasus for more than a year. And so - .

Went through several fights. On the night of September 5-6, the infantry fighting vehicle, on which Alexey served as a gunner, was transferred to the Lipetsk OMON, and guarded a checkpoint near the village. The militants who attacked at night set fire to the BMP. The soldiers left the car and fought, but it was too unequal. All the wounded were brutally finished off. We all mourn the death of Alexei. Words of consolation are hard to find. On November 26, 2007, a memorial plaque was installed on the school building.

The opening of the memorial plaque was attended by Alexei's mother, Lyudmila Alekseevna, and representatives from the youth department from the district. Now we are starting to make an album about him, there is a stand at the school dedicated to Alexei.

In addition to Alexei, four other students of our school participated in the Chechen campaign: Kadrov Eduard, Ivanov Alexander, Anisimov Alexei and Kiselev Alexei, who was awarded the Order of Courage. It is very scary and bitter when young guys die. The Paranin family had three children, but the son was the only one. Ivan Alekseevich, Alexei's father, works as a tractor driver on the Zvezda collective farm, his mother, Lyudmila Alekseevna, is a school worker.

Erdneev Boris Ozinovich (a few seconds before death)

(The essay “Defending Tukhchar” was used)

Of the Chechen murderers, only three fell into the hands of justice: Tamerlan Khasaev, Islam Mukaev, Arbi Dandaev

Tamerlan Khasaev was the first of the thugs to fall into the hands of law enforcement agencies. Sentenced to eight and a half years for kidnapping in December 2001, he was serving a term in a strict regime colony in the Kirov region, when the investigation, thanks to a videotape seized during a special operation in Chechnya, managed to establish that he was one of those who participated in the massacre on the outskirts of Tukhchar.

Khasaev ended up in the detachment at the beginning of September 1999 - one of his friends seduced him with the opportunity to get captured weapons on a campaign against Dagestan, which could then be sold at a profit. So Khasaev ended up in the gang of Emir Umar, who was subordinate to the notorious commander of the ‘Islamic Special Purpose Regiment’ Abdulmalik Mezhidov, Shamil Basaev’s deputy…

In February 2002, Khasaev was transferred to the Makhachkala pre-trial detention center and shown a recording of the execution. He did not retract. Moreover, the case already contained testimonies from residents of Tukhchar, who confidently identified Khasaev from a photograph sent from the colony. (The militants did not particularly hide, and the execution itself was visible even from the windows of houses on the edge of the village). Khasaev stood out among the militants dressed in camouflage with a white T-shirt.

The Khasaev trial took place in the Supreme Court of Dagestan in October 2002. He pleaded guilty only partially: ‘I admit participation in illegal armed formations, weapons and invasion. But I did not cut the soldier ... I just approached him with a knife. So far, two have been killed. When I saw this picture, I refused to cut, gave the knife to another.

“They started first,” Khasaev said of the battle in Tukhchar. - The BMP opened fire, and Umar ordered the grenade launchers to take up positions. And when I said that there was no such agreement, he assigned three militants to me. Since then, I myself have been with them as a hostage.

For participation in an armed rebellion, the militant received 15 years, for the theft of weapons - 10, for participation in an illegal armed formation and illegal possession of weapons - five. For the encroachment on the life of a serviceman, Khasaev, according to the court, deserved the death penalty, however, in connection with the moratorium on its use, an alternative measure of punishment was chosen - life imprisonment.

Islam Mukaev (25 years in prison - in 2005)

It is known that in July 1999, Mukaev joined the Karpinsky jamaat (named after the Karpinka microdistrict in Grozny), headed by Emir Umar, and already in September took part in a raid on Dagestan. After the battle, the bandits captured the post, losing four people in the process. Among them was Mukayev's cousin.

He, like other relatives of the dead militants, was offered to take part in the execution of soldiers in order to ‘take a blood feud’. Mukaev said that he would not be able to cut his throat. However, during the execution he helped to kill the platoon commander Vasily Tashkin. The officer struggled, and then Mukaev hit him and held his hands until another militant finally finished off the senior lieutenant.

Arbi Dandaev (for life in 2009). The remaining participants in the massacre are still on the “federal wanted list”. April 2009

In the Supreme Court of Dagestan, the third trial on the case of the execution of six Russian servicemen in the village of Tukhchar, Novolaksky District, in September 1999, was completed. One of the participants in the execution, 35-year-old Arbi Dandaev, who, according to the court, personally cut the throat of senior lieutenant Vasily Tashkin, was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment in a special regime colony.

Former member of the national security service of Ichkeria, Arbi Dandaev, according to the investigation, took part in the gangs of Shamil Basayev and went to Dagestan in 1999. In early September, he joined a detachment led by Emir Umar Karpinsky, who on September 5 of the same year invaded the territory of the Novolaksky district of the republic.

From the Chechen village of Galayty, the militants went to the Dagestan village of Tukhchar - the road was guarded by a checkpoint where Dagestani policemen were serving. On the hill, they were covered by an infantry fighting vehicle and 13 soldiers from the brigade of internal troops. But the militants entered the village from the rear and, having captured the village police department after a short battle, began to fire at the hill.

An infantry fighting vehicle buried in the ground inflicted considerable damage on the attackers, but when the encirclement began to shrink, Senior Lieutenant Vasily Tashkin ordered the armored vehicle to be driven out of the trench and open fire across the river at the car that brought the militants.

A ten-minute hitch turned out to be fatal for the soldiers: a shot from a grenade launcher near the infantry fighting vehicle demolished the tower. The gunner died on the spot, and the driver Alexei Polagaev was shell-shocked. The surviving defenders of the checkpoint reached the village and began to hide - some in basements and attics, and some in corn thickets.

Half an hour later, on the orders of Emir Umar, the militants began to search the village, and five servicemen who hid in the basement of one of the houses had to surrender after a short firefight - a grenade launcher shot sounded in response to a machine gun burst. After some time, Aleksey Polagaev joined the captives - the militants "figured out" him in one of the neighboring houses, where the hostess hid him.

By order of Emir Umar, the prisoners were taken to a clearing next to the checkpoint. What happened next was meticulously recorded on camera by the cameraman of the militants. Four executioners appointed by the commander of the militants in turn carried out the order, cutting the throats of an officer and three soldiers (one of the soldiers tried to escape, but he was shot dead). Emir Umar dealt with the sixth victim personally.

Umar Karpinsky (Edilsultanov) in the center. Amir of the Karpinsky jamaat. He personally dealt with Alexei Polagaev - he died 5 months later while trying to break out of Grozny.

Arbi Dandaev was hiding from justice for more than eight years, but on April 3, 2008, Chechen policemen detained him in Grozny. He was charged with participation in a stable criminal group (gang) and its attacks, an armed rebellion in order to change the territorial integrity of Russia, as well as an encroachment on the lives of law enforcement officers and illegal arms trafficking.

According to the materials of the investigation, the militant Dandaev turned himself in, confessed to the crimes committed and confirmed his testimony when he was taken to the place of execution. In the Supreme Court of Dagestan, however, he pleaded not guilty, saying that the appearance took place under duress, and refused to testify.

Nevertheless, the court recognized his previous testimony as admissible and reliable, since they were given with the participation of a lawyer and no complaints were received from him about the investigation. The court examined the video recording of the execution, and although it was difficult to recognize the defendant Dandaev in the bearded executioner, the court took into account that the recording of Arbi's name was clearly audible.

Residents of the village of Tukhchar were also interrogated. One of them recognized the defendant Dandaev, but the court reacted critically to his words, given the advanced age of the witness and the confusion in his testimony.

Speaking in the debate, lawyers Konstantin Sukhachev and Konstantin Mudunov asked the court to either resume the judicial investigation by conducting expert examinations and calling new witnesses, or to acquit the defendant. The accused Dandaev last word stated that he knew who led the execution, this man is free, and he can give his last name if the court resumes the investigation. The judicial investigation was resumed, but only in order to interrogate the defendant.

As a result, the examined evidence did not leave the court in doubt that the defendant Dandaev was guilty. Meanwhile, the defense believes that the court hastened and did not investigate many important circumstances for the case.

For example, he did not interrogate Islan Mukaev, already convicted in 2005, a participant in the execution in Tukhchar (another of the executioners, Tamerlan Khasaev, was sentenced to life imprisonment in October 2002 and died soon after in the colony).

“Practically all petitions significant for the defense were rejected by the court,” lawyer Konstantin Mudunov told Kommersant. “So, we repeatedly insisted on a second psychological and psychiatric examination, since the first was carried out using a falsified outpatient card. The court rejected this request. He was not sufficiently objective, and we will appeal the verdict.”

According to the relatives of the defendant, Arbi Dandaev developed mental disorders in 1995, after Russian servicemen wounded his younger brother Alvi in ​​Grozny, and some time later the corpse of a boy was returned from a military hospital, from whom internal organs(relatives attribute this to the trade in human organs that flourished in Chechnya in those years).

As the defense stated during the debate, their father Khamzat Dandaev achieved the initiation of a criminal case on this fact, but it is not being investigated. According to lawyers, the case against Arbi Dandaev was opened to prevent his father from punishing those responsible for the death of his youngest son. These arguments were reflected in the verdict, but the court considered that the defendant was sane, and that the case had long been initiated into the death of his brother and had nothing to do with the case under consideration.

As a result, the court reclassified two articles relating to weapons and participation in a gang. According to Judge Shikhali Magomedov, the defendant Dandaev acquired weapons alone, and not as part of a group, and participated in illegal armed formations, and not in a gang.

However, these two articles did not affect the verdict, since the statute of limitations had expired on them. And here is Art. 279 "Armed rebellion" and Art. 317 "Encroachment on the life of a law enforcement officer" was pulled for 25 years and life imprisonment.

At the same time, the court took into account both mitigating circumstances (the presence of young children and confession), and aggravating ones (the onset of grave consequences and the particular cruelty with which the crime was committed).

Thus, despite the fact that the state prosecutor asked for only 22 years, the court sentenced the defendant Dandaev to life imprisonment.

In addition, the court satisfied the civil claims of the parents of the four dead servicemen for moral damages, the amounts for which ranged from 200 thousand to 2 million rubles.

New details of the Tukhchar tragedy

... The battles of 1999 in the Novolaksky district responded with tragic events in the Orenburg region, and in the Topchikhinsky district of the Altai Territory, and in other Russian villages. As the Lak proverb says, "War does not produce sons; war takes away sons." The bullet of the enemy that kills the son also wounds the heart of the mother.

On September 1, 1999, the platoon commander, Senior Lieutenant Vasily Tashkin, received an order to advance to the Chechen-Dagestan border on the outskirts of the village of Tukhchar, Novolaksky district. Not far from the village, at a height, the fighters dug trenches, prepared a place for an infantry fighting vehicle. From the nearest Chechen village Ishkhoyurt to Tukhchar two kilometers. The border river is not a barrier for militants. Behind the nearest hill is another Chechen village of Galayty, where there were a lot of militants armed to the teeth.

Having taken up all-round defense and observing the village of Ishkhoyyurt through binoculars, Senior Lieutenant Vasily Tashkin, a graduate of the Novosibirsk School of Internal Troops, recorded the movement of militants, the presence of fire weapons, and surveillance of his post. The commander's heart was restless. His task is to provide fire cover for two police checkpoints: at the entrance to Tukhchar and at the exit from it in the direction of Galaita.

Tashkin knew that the militiamen, armed only with small arms, gladly accepted the appearance of his BMP-2 with soldiers on the armor. But he also understood the danger they, the military and policemen, were in. For some reason, the Novolaksky district was poorly covered by troops. It was possible to count only on themselves, on the military commonwealth of outposts of internal troops and the Dagestan police. But thirteen servicemen on one BMP - is this an outpost?

The BMP gun was aimed at a height behind which was the Chechen village of Galayty, but the militants early in the morning of September 5 did not hit where they were expected: they opened fire from the rear. The forces were unequal. With the very first shots, the BMP effectively hit the militants who were trying to knock out the fighters of the internal troops from a height, but the radio frequencies were clogged with Chechens, and it was not possible to contact anyone. Policemen at the checkpoint also fought in the ring. Poorly equipped with firepower, reinforced only by thirty military personnel of the internal troops, they were doomed to death.

Senior Lieutenant Tashkin, fighting at a height, did not expect help. The Dagestan militiamen were running out of ammunition. The checkpoint at the entrance to Tukhchar and the village police department have already been seized. Increasingly violent onslaught of militants on the surrounded height. In the third hour of the battle, the BMP was hit, caught fire and exploded. “The metal burned like a haystack. They would never have thought that iron could burn with such a bright flame, ”said eyewitnesses of that unequal battle.

The enemy rejoiced. And it diverted attention. Covered by the fire of the defenders of the police checkpoint, senior lieutenant Tashkin and his guys, dragging the wounded on themselves, managed to escape from the height. BMP mechanic Aleksey Polagaev, all burnt, ran into the first house he came across ...

Today we are in Tukhchar visiting a woman who ten years ago tried to save the life of a wounded BMP mechanic driver Alexei Polagaev. This story shocked us to the core. Several times we had to turn off the recorder: ten years later, Atikat Maksudovna Tabieva says, bursting into bitter tears:

“I remember this day like it was yesterday. September 5, 1999 When the militants entered the area, I firmly stated: “I won’t go anywhere, let those who came to our land with bad intentions leave.” We sat at home, waiting to see what would happen to us next.

I went out into the yard - I see a guy standing, a wounded soldier, staggering, holding on to the gate. Covered in blood, burned very badly: no hair, the skin burst on the face. Chest, shoulder, arm - everything is cut with fragments. I sent my eldest grandson Ramazan for a doctor, brought Alexei to the house. All his clothes were covered in blood. My daughter and I burned his already charred military uniform, and so that the militants would not interrogate what they had burned, they collected the remains of the fire in a bag and threw them into the river.

In the neighborhood lived with us a doctor, an Avar Mutalim, it was he who came, washed and bandaged the wounds of Alexei. The guy moaned terribly, it was clear that the pain was unbearable, because the wounds were deep. The doctor somehow removed the fragments, smeared the wounds. We gave Alexei diphenhydramine to help him fall asleep and at least calm down a little. The wounds oozed blood, the sheets had to be changed frequently and hidden somewhere. Knowing that the militants might come in and search the house, I nevertheless, without hesitation, rushed to help the wounded Alexei.

After all, it was not just a wounded soldier bleeding to death that got into our house, for me he was just a son, someone's son. Somewhere his mother is waiting for him, and it doesn’t matter what nationality or religion she is. She is also a mother, just like me. The only thing I asked Allah for was that the Almighty would give me the opportunity to save him. The wounded guy was asking for help, and all I thought about was that I had to save him.”

Atikat through the rooms leads us to the most remote. Here in this far room she hid Alyosha from Siberia, closing the door with a lock. As expected, the militants soon appeared. There were sixteen of them. A local Chechen showed the militants the Atikat house. In addition to her daughter, her young sons were at home. The militants searched the basement, ransacked the cellar, the shed.

Then one of the militants pointed a machine gun at the children and yelled: “Show me where you hide the Russians!” The bandit grabbed the nine-year-old grandson of Ramazan by the collar and lifted him slightly: “Where did the mother and grandmother hide the Russian soldier? Tell!" They pointed weapons at Ramadan. I shielded the children with my body and said: "Don't touch the children." Tears welled up in the boy's eyes from pain, but he shook his head to all the questions and stubbornly answered: "There is no one in the house." The children knew that they could be shot at, but they did not betray Alexei.

When the bandits pointed their machine gun at me and their command sounded: “Show me where the Russian is!” I just shook my head. The bandits threatened to blow up the house. And I thought: right next to it, there, in the next room, lies a Russian guy, bleeding. His mother and relatives are waiting. Even if they kill us all, I won't betray him. Let's all die together. Realizing the futility of the threats, the bandits continued the search. They probably heard the groans of Alexei, started shooting at the locks, broke down the door. The bandits shouted “Allahu Akbar!” with joy, jumped on the bed where the wounded Alexei was lying.

Daughter Gurun ran to their room, she, sobbing, looked at Alexei. But I didn’t go into the room, I couldn’t look into his eyes ... When they took the guy out, I began to ask, beg not to take him away. One of the bandits pushed me away and said: “Grandma, don’t defend the Russians, if you defend, you will die the same death.”

I tell them: this is a wounded and burned soldier, the wounded are not divided into friends and foes. The wounded must always be helped! I am a mother, how can I not protect him, the wounded, trouble will come to you, and you will be protected.

I clung to their hands, begged, begged to let Alexei go. A frightened nineteen-year-old boy looks at me and asks: “What will they do to me?” My heart was breaking. I told them that I do not consider Russians to be enemies, and I never distinguish people by nationality. According to Sharia, a great sin is to distinguish people by nationality. We are all humans.

“Go away, grandma, and don’t teach us,” the bandits said, took Alexei away, and left the yard. And I followed him around. It was very hard for me that I could not save him. I wept bitterly and followed them. Even a Chechen who lived next door told the bandits: “Leave him guys, he’s not a tenant!”

Several Russian soldiers remained in one of the nearby houses, they opened fire, and the militants entered the battle, and Alexei was thrown near the wall under the supervision of one of their own. I ran to Alyosha, hugged him. We both wept bitterly...

Again and again he stands before my eyes: he is about to rise to his feet with difficulty, swaying, holding on to the wall and looking directly at the militants. Then he turns to me and asks: “What will they do to me, mother?”

Atikat Tabieva closes her eyes in pain: “The bandits said that they would exchange him for their prisoners. How could you trust their words? Even if they shot me, I would not let Alyosha go. And I shouldn't have let go."

Atikat shows us the route along which Alexei was taken away. When she reaches the gate, she falls to the ground and sobs. Like then, 10 years ago. In the same way, she fell on her back at the gate and sobbed, and Alexei, surrounded by two dozen bandits, was taken away for reprisal.

Atikat's daughter, Gurun, says: “Not far from Tukhchar, at a checkpoint, I, working as a cook, fed the policemen. Although this was not part of my duties, I also took care of the Russian guys who served on the border with Chechnya. The company was headed by senior lieutenant Vasily Tashkin, there were 13 Russian guys in total. When the wounded Alexei entered our house, the first question was: “Gulya, do you live here?”

I did not have time to warn my sons that it was impossible to extradite Alexei, and I was amazed at how courageously my boys behaved. When the militants pointed a machine gun at them and asked the guys: “Where are you hiding the Russian?”, the boys stubbornly answered: “We don’t know.”

Alexey, when he came to himself, asked me to bring a mirror. There was no living place on his face, solid burn marks, but I began to console him: “You are beautiful, as before, the main thing is that you got out of trouble, you didn’t burn out, everything will be fine with you.” He looked into the mirror and said: "The most important thing is that he is alive."

When the bandits broke down the door and entered the room, sleepy Aleksei did not understand at first what was happening. I told him that he was being taken to the hospital. When he woke up, he quietly said to me: “Gulya, discreetly remove the badge from me, if something happens to me, take it to the military registration and enlistment office.”

The militants shouted: "Get up quickly!" He was unable to get up. The guy was courageous, he tells me: “Gulya, so that I don’t fall in front of them, hold me and put a shirt on me.”

My mother ran up to him in the yard, it was impossible to look at her, she was crying, asking the bandits to let him go. “We must cure him,” said the Chechens. “I’ll cure him myself,” I pleaded.
“Whoever hides a Russian will face the same fate,” said the militant. And in their own language, one says to the other (I understand the Chechen language a little): “To kill, or something, is he here?” ...

Not far from Tukhchar, on the way to the Chechen village of Galayty, the militants brutally dealt with six Russian guys. Among them was the driver-mechanic of the BMP Alexei Polagaev. Aunt Atikat never looks in the direction where the soldiers were executed. She always mentally asks for forgiveness from Alexei's relatives, who live in distant Siberia. She is tormented that she could not save the wounded soldier. Not people came for Alexei, but animals. However, sometimes even from animals it is easier to save a human life.

Later, when one of the militant's local accomplices is put on trial, he admits that Atikat's courageous behavior surprised even the militants themselves. This short, thin woman, risking her life and the lives of her loved ones, tried to save a wounded soldier in that cruel war.

“In a cruel time, you need to save the wounded, show mercy, instill goodness in the hearts and souls of Russians and Caucasians,” Aunt Atikat says simply and wisely and grieves that she could not save the Soldier Alyosha. “I'm not a hero, I'm not a brave woman,” she laments. “Heroes are those who save lives.”

Allow me to object, Aunt Atikat! You have accomplished a feat, and we want to bow low to you, mother, whose heart does not divide children into their own and others.

... On the outskirts of the village, at the place of execution of six Kalachev soldiers, riot police from Sergiev Posad installed a solid metal cross. The stones piled at its base symbolize Golgotha. The inhabitants of the village of Tukhchar are doing everything possible to perpetuate the memory of Russian soldiers who died defending the Dagestan land.

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

militants, 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 video cassettes seized by the FSB special forces in one of the villages of the Shatoi region of Chechnya. There are 400 cassettes 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 prejudice, attacks on columns of federal forces. This is a view from the inside, through the eyes of militants.

We have deliberately declined to comment on what you are about to see. It is impossible to comment on this. The films speak for themselves. We will supplement with words what from a certain moment cannot be watched, neither for ethical nor for moral reasons: after seeing the excerpts, you will understand why.

Footage from three years ago: this execution went around the television screens around the world. Execution of the judgment of the Sharia court. After Sharia security investigation. Public shooting. This is just what hit the screens.

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

Personnel: interrogation with special predilection.

Everything is captured on camera. Detailed. The investigation did not last long. The same cassette. By the dates on the screen you can see: from the investigation to the verdict exactly 10 days. The verdict is a public execution.

Frames: execution. Autumn 1999. It is impossible to say exactly where the action takes place. According to some signs, this is near the village of Tukhchar in Dagestan. Under the feet of the militants are 6 soldiers of the federal forces. 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 chase and shoot.

Frames: resists, runs away, catch up, shots are heard.

For us, these shots are medieval savagery. But for those who kill Russian soldiers, this is a routine, everyday life. For 2 Chechen companies, this has become the rule of law for them. The Russian investigation and trial will not be so cruel. The maximum that threatens executioners is life imprisonment. The court can sentence a sadist, a murderer and a war criminal to death. But in 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.