Soldiers are being slaughtered in Chechnya. Memory. Tukhcharskaya Golgotha ​​of the Russian outpost. About these same events from the press

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This video is recommended for viewing by people from the human rights society "Memorial", in particular S.A. Kovalev, foreign citizens who are interested in the Chechen war, as well as Western journalists covering the topic of the war in Chechnya.

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

The court found that a native of the village of Gekhi Dashaev, as part of an armed gang commanded by the notorious thug Islam Chalayev, 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 bandits recorded the crime on video, which later became the starting point for investigators from the Republican Prosecutor's Office.

At one time, many shocking recordings circulated around Chechnya. But then the investigators were faced with the fact that the bandits had kidnapped a family in which the husband Khasan Edilgireev was a Chechen, and the wife Tatyana Usmanova was Russian. Her friend Lena Gaevskaya was also Russian. Later at the trial, the only accused Dashaev - the rest of the gang members, along with the leader, had been killed by that time - tried to imagine that the family was kidnapped for allegedly collaborating with the federal authorities. But the state prosecutor thought differently. The footage of the terrible video captures the last moments of the lives of the unfortunate women, and anyone who has the nerve to watch the video to the end will understand that the murders were committed only because the Russian, in the opinion of the bandits, should not have lived with the Chechen in peace and as one family .

By the beginning of the 2000s, the situation in Chechnya had changed greatly compared to the mid-nineties. If during the first Chechen campaign the Chechens did not need 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 authorities establish a peaceful life in the destroyed republic. This gave Chalaev’s bandits no rest. Therefore, after killing his wife and her friend, they released the Chechen. The prosecutor's office is confident that the Chechen Edilgireev was left alive not because he cooperated with the authorities less than his wife. The bandits needed to demonstratively pit the Russian population against the Chechens. Therefore, they filmed everything, and then replicated the 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 woman by the arms and legs. Arbi Khaskhanov was the first to approach the victim with a knife. He made several cuts on the woman's neck. Then Adlan Baraev took up the knife and, with a real butcher’s movement, slashed him in the throat. The job was completed by Dashaev, who separated the woman’s head from her 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 well-known Khamzat Tazabaev, nicknamed Tazik, happily filmed the terrible action. Edilgireev still cannot remember without a shudder the cruelty with which they killed his wife. The video shows that the executioners enjoy their “job.”

The prosecutor's office at the trial demanded life imprisonment for Dashaev, but the court did not agree with the arguments of the state prosecutor. Although the judge considered Dashaev’s guilt proven, he gave the defendant 25 years. The prosecutor's office did not agree with the verdict and is planning to file an appeal in the next few days.

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

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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 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 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 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.” I wish you success.
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 the Jew Berezovsky and company were fine. 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, from the window of my apartment in Grozny, I saw 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. A.F. Tarasov. 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, Nayp 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 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, pushed me into the car, drove me to the field, there 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 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. After that, under threat of murder, I was forced to perform 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 Dudaev’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 Dudayevites 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, even the 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 and 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 from a machine gun.”

V. Makharin, born in 1959:
“On November 19, 1994, the Chechens committed a robbery against 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 Chechens shoot 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 a sexual act 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 pursuers 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, smashed 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.

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.

Let's go back three years. Let us remember that, having seized power, the Dudayev regime began not only to train and arm militants, but also to psychologically indoctrinate the local population. Day after day there was a thick stream of materials in the media, where there was undisguised hostility towards the Russians, hatred towards Moscow, which was allegedly trying to once again “enslave” the Chechen people.
These seeds of mistrust and anger, sown over three years in the souls of many residents of Chechnya, have borne fruit. Anti-Russian sentiments began to appear more and more clearly. An increasing number of residents of non-Chechen nationality were subjected to humiliation, violence and simply physical extermination. The tone of this campaign of terror was set by punitive forces from illegal armed groups.
With the beginning of military operations of the federal troops, the bestial face of Dudayevism was completely exposed. Brutal murders, rape, torture, mockery of the bodies of the dead - this is the flood of evil that the militants unleashed on the civilian population, on Russian military personnel. Chechnya seemed to have become the victim of a gigantic terrorist act, a sort of explosion in Oklahoma City, but raised to the nth degree.
Thus, the Dudayev regime pursued several goals. Firstly, to demoralize Russian soldiers and officers, sow panic among them, and suppress their will. Secondly, to provoke a response from the federal troops in order to later accuse the Russian army of cruelty and at the same time aggravate the feeling of revenge among the militants. And thirdly, to discourage field commanders from negotiating the voluntary surrender of weapons.
The Dudayev regime skillfully manipulated public opinion. Foreign and Russian journalists were freely allowed into the places where they were being held

captured Russian servicemen willingly allowed us to talk with them. Some soldiers were even returned to their parents.
And at the same time, trying to intimidate the federal troops, Dudayev’s militants showed incredible cruelty to the prisoners.
Let's take a closer look at these real eyewitness accounts. What is it - Babi Yar, Auschwitz, Treblinka? No, this is Chechnya in early 1995, where Dudayev’s militants seem to have set out to surpass the sadistic records of the Nazis.
...After an unsuccessful New Year’s attack in the Neftyanka area, on the outskirts of Grozny, two infantry fighting vehicles with seven fighters fell into the hands of Dudayev’s men. The three wounded were immediately laid on the ground, doused with gasoline and set on fire. Then, in front of the eyes of the townspeople, numb from this wild spectacle, the militants stripped the remaining four soldiers naked and hung them by their feet. Then they began to methodically cut off their ears, gouge out their eyes, and rip open their stomachs.
The mutilated corpses hung there for three days. Local residents were not allowed to bury the dead. When one of the men began to especially insistently ask that the remains of the soldiers be interred, he was immediately shot. The rest were warned: “This will happen to everyone who approaches the bodies.”
...Not far from the checkpoint of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Staropromyslovsky district of Grozny there is a grave of an unknown soldier. Eyewitnesses say: when the militants set fire to an infantry fighting vehicle, one of the Russian soldiers pulled out a wounded comrade and, firing back, carried him to the basement. Dudayev's men were able to take the soldier prisoner only after he ran out of ammunition. The Russian guy was dragged to a bathhouse, where he was brutally tortured for more than two days. Having achieved nothing, the bandits in a rage broke his arms and legs with machine gun fire and cut off his ears. They tried to carve a bloody star on his back. Already dead, the soldier was thrown onto the road, and, as usual, he was forbidden to bury him. But under the cover of darkness, local residents nevertheless buried his body.

No matter how painful it is to read about this, let’s continue the chronicle of horrors. If we do not tell this terrible truth here, then it is unlikely that we will hear anything similar from other human rights activists like “Serge” Kovalev, who are anti-patriotic in their zeal.
...Taking advantage of the calm, the marines, including senior sailor Andrei Belikov, began to take the wounded and dead to safety. In the evening they went to the outskirts of the village, where, according to intelligence information, a local woman was hiding the seriously wounded.
As the car approached the house, the headlights caught the soldier hanging from the gate from the darkness. A second one lay nearby in a pool of blood. The owner of the house was found on the floor behind the stove. Naked, disfigured beyond recognition, with a piece of paper on her forehead. On the piece of paper was written: “Russian pig.”
It has been documented that Dudayev’s militants tortured captured soldiers and officers. Thus, during the autopsy of the body of border guard lieutenant A. Kurylenko, military doctors discovered traces of cauterization of the skin of the chest, multiple chopped and incised wounds, as well as symmetrical puncture holes on the forearms - the result of hanging. The bodies of his two comrades, Lieutenant A. Gubankov and Private S. Ermashev, were mutilated in approximately the same way. They did not take a direct part in the hostilities, but were abducted by militants in the area of ​​​​the village of Assinovskaya.
Near Assinovskaya, two officers from the crew of a helicopter intended to transport the wounded were brutally killed. There are traces of mockery on the bodies.
As you know, they don’t shoot at the Red Cross. But during the operation in Chechnya, 9 medical workers were killed and many were wounded. Moreover, at a time when they were either providing assistance to the wounded or were in ambulances with a clearly marked red cross. Thus, militants disguised as children and women attacked a convoy with medical equipment near the city of Nazran and severely beat three female army medical workers.
General Lev Rokhlin, commander of the 8th Corps, confirmed the information that during the capture of the Council of Ministers building in Grozny, crucified bodies of Russian servicemen were found in the window openings. Soldiers' corpses were often mined, which led to losses among doctors and orderlies.
Here is more terrible evidence in meager telegraph lines:
Soldier (unidentified). The left eye was cut out. Raped. Killed by two shots at point blank range.
Private V. Dolgushin. Died from blast injury. When examining the body, it was discovered that after death the soldier’s right testicle was cut off.
Junior Sergeant F. Vedenev. There is a cut wound on the neck. The larynx and carotid arteries are damaged. The right ear was cut off.
Among the most disgusting crimes of the Dudayevites is their use of the civilian population, children and women in hostilities. Sometimes they created some kind of Japanese kamikaze from living people.
Warrant Officer Eduard Shakhbazov from the 74th Motorized Rifle Brigade says:
“On January 31, I was sitting in an ambush when I saw a short Chechen running towards us. I cocked the trigger of the machine gun and took aim. But looking closer, I saw that he was just a boy. I involuntarily lowered the machine gun. He was about fifteen meters away from our infantry fighting vehicle when he heard the cry “Allah Akbar!” and a shot from a Chechen sniper clicked. It turned out that the boy was covered all over with plastic, a viscous explosive, whose destructive power is many times more powerful than TNT. The impact of the bullet on the guy’s back triggered a detonator. He was torn into pieces. At the same time, three of my soldiers were wounded and damaged our infantry fighting vehicle. The blast wave knocked me to the ground. Jumping up, I saw about a dozen more teenagers running towards our cars, the same “live shells.”
As noted above, local residents were often used by the Dudayevites as human shields.
Militants often installed guns and tanks under the cover of hospitals, schools, and residential buildings, thereby inviting artillery and mortar fire from federal troops on them.
In this way, the Dudayevites are trying in every possible way to drag the civilians of Chechnya into the conflict, to instill fear in them, to arouse hatred of the federal army. Moreover, sometimes the most savage methods are used. So, dressed in the uniform of Russian soldiers, bandits attack peaceful villages, rob, kill people - just to stain the enemy with innocent blood.
For example, on January 6, on one of the streets of Grozny, militants burned a small child. The killers were dressed as Russian soldiers. The crime was filmed. Apparently, the organizers of this wild provocation intended to carry it out somewhere abroad in order to accuse the Russian army of cannibalistic crimes.
It is significant that during the fighting in Grozny, Dudayev’s snipers fired at civilians, aiming mainly at the legs. There were cases where men and women had their tendons cut or chained. In such inhumane ways they wanted to prevent civilians, primarily Russians, from leaving the city and thereby, to some extent, protect themselves from shelling.
The mercenaries were no less cruel. During interrogation, one of them, a resident of Volgograd O. Rakunov, said that, together with Dudayev’s militants, he more than once carried out attacks on Russian residents both in Grozny itself and in the village of Pervomaisky. Rakunov admitted: they put the girls in cars, took them to the city of Shali, to the headquarters, raped them there, and then shot them.
To some extent, Dudayev’s militants managed to achieve their goal. Some of the Russian residents of Grozny were intimidated to such an extent that they did not even dare to approach the federal soldiers if there were Chechens nearby. They feared that revenge would follow. Everyone in the city knows how Dudayev’s men took revenge on one woman who hid wounded Russian soldiers in her home for several days. Soon after she handed over the fighters to the hospital, she was shot. Apparently, for the edification of others...
It’s hard to believe that all this happened on the soil of Chechnya, where the concepts of honor and dignity are not empty words. Where insulting a woman, hitting a child, shooting an enemy in the back was once considered a disgrace for a true highlander.

September 1999. Dagestan. For a month now, the flames of the “liberation” war unleashed in the mountains of the Botlikh, Tsumadinsky and Buinaksky regions have been burning. It arrived unexpectedly and insidiously from neighboring Chechnya.

There is a war going on in the mountains, but here, to the north, in the Novolaksky region, it is relatively calm. The day before, 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 green, 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 the small outpost, which only five days ago occupied a commanding height on the southwestern outskirts of the village of Tukhchar, senior lieutenant Vasily Tashkin did not guess and, having contacted Vershina, reported the situation to his command, adding that they were with that The parties are being monitored.

In response, I received instructions to triple my vigilance and set up additional observation posts. Beyond the Aksai River is Chechnya, the large village of Ishkhoy-Yurt is a gangster nest. The outpost is ready for battle. The position for the weapon 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 militia neighbors on the left and two Dagestan police posts below, to reinforce which the Kalachevites - servicemen of the operational brigade of internal troops - arrived. There would only be enough ammunition: in addition to the BMP-2 with full ammunition, there is also a PC with seven hundred rounds of ammunition, an SVD and 120 rounds of ammunition for it, an old Kalashnikov handbrake with three hundred and sixty rounds of ammunition, and four magazines each for machine gunners. He and the platoon commander also have an under-barrel grenade launcher and four ergedash grenades. Not a lot, but if something happened they promised to send help: the battalion is stationed in Duchi, which is not far.

However, in war it’s like in war.

“Tyulenev,” Tashkin called the sergeant, “Vershina again asks to increase vigilance.” I'll check the posts myself 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 the morning, making it difficult to listen to the silence of the night.

As soon as it was dawn, Tashkin raised the resting soldiers and with a sniper moved to a nearby 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 wading a shallow river. The last doubts were dispelled, this is war. When the militants walking in a thick chain became visible to the naked eye, Tashkin gave the command to open fire. The silence was broken by a machine-gun burst, two militants walking in front fell, and then other guns began to thunder and attack. The outpost took 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 they couldn’t take the outpost head-on, they attacked it with their main forces from the rear, from the direction of the Dagestan village of Gamiakh. Immediately I had to forget about all the carefully calibrated sectors of fire and leave the equipped position for the infantry fighting vehicle. She turned into a nomadic “shaitan-arbu” that inflicts effective damage on the enemy.

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

Field commander Umar, directing operations from nearby Ishkhoy-Yurt, was visibly nervous. For the second hour, his detachment, which was part of the so-called Islamic Special Purpose Regiment, was practically marking time.

But the unequal battle could not last indefinitely. Ammunition ran out, strength dwindled, and the number of wounded increased. The militants have already captured one checkpoint, and then the village police department. Now they burst into the village and almost surrounded the hill. And soon the BMP was also knocked out, which lingered in the enemy’s field of view for only a minute longer, targeting the ZIL with bearded men crossing the river. The crew of the heroic “kopeck piece” managed to get out, but the fire severely burned the gunner of the vehicle, Siberian Private Alexei Polagaev.

The sight of burning equipment with exploding ammunition caused the militants to rejoice, diverting their attention for some time from the military personnel who continued to hold the height. But the commander, realizing that now it was not only dangerous, but also impossible, and most importantly, impractical, decided to leave. There was only one way - down to the defending policemen of the second checkpoint. Under the cover of a smoking 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 on the morning of September 5, communication 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, the last defenders sat behind the concrete blocks
The militants sent village elders:

The militants were told to go out without weapons and to guarantee their lives.
“We won’t give up,” came the answer.

There was still a chance to get out of the battle, they thought, saving their lives, weapons and honor. Having counted and divided the cartridges, hugging each other in a brotherly manner at the end, the soldiers and policemen, covering each other with fire, rushed to the nearest houses. They carried the wounded on themselves. Having come under heavy fire from the militants, Senior Lieutenant Tashkin and four other soldiers jumped into the nearest building.

A few seconds earlier, police sergeant Abdulkasim Magomedov died here. At the same moment, the half-collapsed building was surrounded and it was impossible to escape. Ammunition was running low. The militants again offer to surrender. However, they themselves do not risk storming a temporary shelter where only a handful of armed people are holed up. They put pressure on the psyche. They promise to burn you alive if you refuse. Gasoline is ready. They give you 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 hesitations at that moment?

Everyone always wants to live. This is felt especially acutely in a moment of calm, when you realize that life is so beautiful! And the sun, so gentle, now standing at its zenith, was so bright, so life-affirming. The day turned out to be really hot.

Vasily Tashkin did not believe the sweet speeches of the militants. The prophetic heart and some experience told the officer that these non-humans would not leave them alive. But looking at his boys, in whose eyes one could read HOPE, the officer nevertheless made up his mind and came out of hiding...

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

The meeting about the fate of the military personnel was short-lived. Amir Umar ordered on the radio to “execute the Russian dogs”; they killed too many of his soldiers in battle.

— The first to be taken out for execution was Private Boris Erdneev from Kalmykia. They cut his throat with a blade. Residents of Tukhchar, numb with horror, watched the massacre. The fighters were defenseless, but not broken. They left this life undefeated.

They died in Tukhchar

The execution of Russian soldiers by Chechen militants was filmed on a video camera, which dispassionately recorded the last minutes of the soldiers’ lives.

Some people accept death in silence, others escape 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 residents of Tukhchar also look with caution and distrust towards their restless and unpredictable neighbor.

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

"Cargo - 200" arrived on Kizner land. In the battles for the liberation of Dagestan from bandit formations, Alexey Ivanovich Paranin, a native of the village of Ishek of the Zvezda collective farm and a graduate of our school, died. Alexey was born on January 25, 1980. He graduated from Verkhnetyzhminsk primary school. He was a very inquisitive, lively, brave boy. Then he studied at Mozhginsky State Technical University No. 12, where he received the profession of a mason. However, I didn’t have time to work; I 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, an infantry fighting vehicle, on which Alexey served as an operator-gunner, was transferred to the Lipetsk OMON, and guarded a checkpoint near the village. The militants who attacked at night set the BMP on fire. 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 region. Now we are starting to design an album about him, there is a stand at the school dedicated to Alexey.

In addition to Alexey, four more students from our school took part in the Chechen campaign: Eduard Kadrov, Alexander Ivanov, Alexey Anisimov and Alexey Kiselev, awarded the Order of Courage. It is very scary and bitter when young guys die. There were three children in the Paranin family, but the son was the only one. Ivan Alekseevich, Alexey’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 his death)

(Used the essay “Defending Tukhchar”)

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

The first of the thugs to fall into the hands of law enforcement agencies was Tamerlan Khasaev. Sentenced to eight and a half years for kidnapping in December 2001, he was serving time in a maximum security 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 bloody massacre on the outskirts of Tukhchar.

Khasaev found himself in the detachment at the beginning of September 1999 - one of his friends tempted him with the opportunity to get captured weapons during the campaign against Dagestan, which could then be sold at a profit. So Khasaev ended up in the gang of Emir Umar, subordinate to the notorious commander of the ‘Islamic special-purpose regiment’ Abdulmalik Mezhidov, Shamil Basayev’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 deny it. Moreover, the case already contained testimony from residents of Tukhchar, who confidently identified Khasaev from a photograph sent from the colony. (The militants did not hide especially, 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 trial in Khasaev's case took place in the Supreme Court of Dagestan in October 2002. He pleaded guilty only partially: ‘I admit participation in an illegal armed formation, weapons and invasion. But I didn’t cut the soldier... I just approached him with a knife. Two people had been killed before. When I saw this picture, I refused to cut and gave the knife to someone else.’

“They were the first to start,” Khasaev said about the battle in Tukhchar. “The infantry fighting vehicle opened fire, and Umar ordered the grenade launchers to take positions. And when I said that there was no such agreement, he assigned three militants to me. Since then I myself have been their hostage.”

For participation in an armed rebellion, the militant received 15 years, for stealing weapons - 10, for participation in an illegal armed group and illegally carrying weapons - five each. For an attack on the life of a serviceman, Khasaev, according to the court, deserved the death penalty, but due to a moratorium on its use, an alternative 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. Among them was Mukaev’s cousin.

He, like other relatives of the dead militants, was offered to take part in the execution of soldiers in order to ‘take blood feud’. Mukaev said that he could not cut his throat. However, during the execution he helped 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 (life sentence in 2009). The remaining participants in the massacre are still on the federal wanted list. April 2009

The Supreme Court of Dagestan completed the third trial in the case of the execution of six Russian servicemen in the village of Tukhchar, Novolaksky district in September 1999. 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 employee of the National Security Service of Ichkeria Arbi Dandaev, according to investigators, took part in Shamil Basayev’s gangs in Dagestan in 1999. At the beginning of September, he joined a detachment led by Emir Umar Karpinsky, who on September 5 of the same year invaded the territory of the Novolaksky region of the republic.

From the Chechen village of Galaity, the militants headed to the Dagestan village of Tukhchar - the road was guarded by a checkpoint manned by Dagestan policemen. On the hill they were covered by an infantry fighting vehicle and 13 soldiers from a 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 shelling the hill.

The BMP buried in the ground caused considerable damage to 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 on the car that was transporting the militants.

The ten-minute hitch turned out to be fatal for the soldiers: a shot from a grenade launcher on the BMP demolished the turret. The gunner died on the spot, and the driver Alexey 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, the militants, on the orders of Emir Umar, began to search the village, and five soldiers, hiding in the basement of one of the houses, had to surrender after a short firefight - in response to machine gun fire, a shot from a grenade launcher was fired. After some time, Alexey Polagaev joined the captives - the militants “located” him in one of the neighboring houses, where the owner was hiding him.

By order of Emir Umar, the prisoners were taken to a clearing next to the checkpoint. What happened next was scrupulously recorded on camera by the action cameraman. Four executioners appointed by the commander of the militants took turns following the order, cutting the throats of an officer and three soldiers (one of the soldiers tried to escape, but was shot). 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 hid from justice for more than eight years, but on April 3, 2008, Chechen police detained him in Grozny. He was charged with participation in a stable criminal group (gang) and attacks committed by it, armed rebellion with the aim of changing the territorial integrity of Russia, as well as encroachment on the lives of law enforcement officers and illegal arms trafficking.

According to the investigation materials, the militant Dandaev confessed, confessed to the crimes he had committed and confirmed his testimony when he was taken to the place of execution. In the Supreme Court of Dagestan, however, he did not admit his guilt, stating that his appearance took place under duress, and refused to testify.

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

Residents of the village of Tukhchar were also questioned. One of them recognized the defendant Dandaev, but the court was critical of his words, given the advanced age of the witness and the confusion in his testimony.

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

As a result, the examined evidence left no doubt in the court’s mind that the defendant Dandaev was guilty. Meanwhile, the defense believes that the court was hasty and did not examine many important circumstances for the case.

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

“Almost all the 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 one 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 defendant’s relatives, mental problems appeared in Arbi Dandaev in 1995, after Russian soldiers wounded his younger brother Alvi in ​​Grozny, and some time later the corpse of a boy was returned from a military hospital, whose internal organs had been removed (relatives attribute this to with 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 seeking punishment for those responsible for the death of his youngest son. These arguments were reflected in the verdict, but the court found that the defendant was sane, and the case regarding the death of his brother had been opened a long time ago and was not related to 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, defendant Dandaev acquired weapons alone, and not as part of a group, and participated in illegal armed groups, and not in a gang.

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

At the same time, the court took into account both mitigating circumstances (presence of young children and confession) and aggravating ones (the occurrence of grave consequences and the special 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 four dead servicemen for compensation for moral damage, 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 echoed tragic events in the Orenburg region, and in the Topchikhinsky district of the Altai Territory, and in other Russian villages. As the Lak saying goes, “war does not give birth to sons, war takes away born sons.” An enemy bullet that kills a son also wounds the mother’s heart.

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

Having taken up a perimeter defense and observing the village of Ishkhoyurt 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 uneasy. His task is to provide fire cover for two police checkpoints: at the entrance to Tukhchar and at the exit from it towards Galaity.

Tashkin knew that the police, armed only with small arms, were happy to see the appearance of his BMP-2 with soldiers on the armor. But he also understood the danger they, military personnel and police officers, were in. For some reason, the Novolaksky district was poorly covered by troops. They could only count on themselves, on the military partnership of the outposts of the internal troops and the Dagestan police. But thirteen military personnel on one infantry fighting vehicle - is this an outpost?

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

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

The enemy rejoiced. And it was a distraction. Covered by fire from the defenders of the police checkpoint, Senior Lieutenant Tashkin and his guys, dragging the wounded on themselves, managed to escape from the heights. BMP mechanic Alexey Polagaev, completely burned, 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 the wounded BMP driver-mechanic Alexei Polagaev. This story struck 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 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 and saw a guy standing there, a wounded soldier, staggering, holding on to the gate. Covered in blood, he was very badly burned: there was no hair, the skin on his face was torn. Chest, shoulder, arm - everything was cut by shrapnel. I sent my eldest grandson Ramazan to the doctor and brought Alexei into the house. All his clothes were covered in blood. My daughter and I burned his already burnt military uniform, and so that the militants would not interrogate what they were burning, we collected the remains from the fire in a bag and threw it into the river.

A doctor, an Avar named Mutalim, lived next door to us, and he came, washed and bandaged Alexei’s wounds. The guy was moaning terribly, it was clear that the pain was unbearable, the wounds were deep. The doctor somehow removed the fragments and lubricated the wounds. We gave Alexey diphenhydramine to help him fall asleep and calm down at least a little. The wounds oozed blood, the sheets had to be changed frequently and hidden somewhere. Knowing that the militants could come in and search the house, I nevertheless, without hesitation, rushed to help the wounded Alexei.

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

Atikat leads us through the rooms to the most distant one. It was in this far room that she hid Alyosha from Siberia, locking the door. As expected, the militants soon arrived. 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 and barn.

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

When the bandits pointed the 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 me, in the next room, there’s a Russian guy lying bleeding. His mother and relatives are waiting. Even if they kill us all, I won’t hand him over. Let's all die together. Realizing the futility of the threats, the bandits continued the search. They probably heard Alexei’s groans, started shooting at the locks, and broke down the door. The bandits shouted “Allahu Akbar!” with joy and jumped on the bed where the wounded Alexey lay.

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

I tell them: this is a wounded and burnt 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, who is wounded, trouble will come to you, and they will protect you.

I clung to their hands, asked, 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 based on their nationality. According to Sharia, it is a great sin to distinguish people based on nationality. We are all humans.

“Go away, grandma, and don’t teach us,” the bandits said, took Alexei, and left the yard. And I followed on his heels. It was very hard for me that I could not save him. I cried my eyes out and followed them. Even the Chechen who lived next door told the bandits: “Leave him alone, guys, he’s not a good guy!”

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

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

Atikat Tabiyeva closes her eyes in pain: “The bandits said that he would be exchanged for their prisoners. How could you believe their words? Even if they shot me, I wouldn’t 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. Just like that, she fell on her back at the gate and sobbed, and Alexei, surrounded by two dozen bandits, was taken away to be killed.

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

I didn’t have time to warn my sons that they couldn’t hand over Alexei, and I was amazed at how courageously my boys behaved. When the militants, pointing a machine gun at them, asked the boys: “Where are you hiding the Russian?”, the boys stubbornly answered: “We don’t know.”

Alexey, when he came to his senses, asked me to bring a mirror. There was no living space on his face, there were continuous traces of burns, but I began to console him: “You are as beautiful as before, the main thing is that you came out of trouble, did not burn, everything will be fine with you.” He looked in the mirror and said: “The most important thing is to be alive.”

When the bandits broke down the door and entered the room, sleepy Alexey at first did not understand what was happening. I told him that he was being taken to the hospital. When he woke up, he quietly told me: “Gulya, quietly take off my badge, if anything 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 and said to me: “Gulya, so that I don’t fall in front of them, hold me and put a shirt on me.”

In the yard, my mother ran up to him, it was impossible to look at her, she was crying, asking the bandits to let him go. “We must cure him,” the Chechens said. “I’ll cure him here myself,” I asked.
“Whoever hides a Russian will face the same fate,” said the militant. And in his own language one says to the other (I understand the Chechen language a little): “Are we going to kill him here?”...

Not far from Tukhchar, on the way to the Chechen village of Galayty, militants brutally dealt with six Russian children. Among them was BMP driver-mechanic Alexey 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. It was not people who came for Alexei, but animals. However, sometimes it is easier to save a human life even from animals.

Later, when one of the local accomplices of the militants appears in court, he admits that Atikat’s courageous behavior amazed even the militants themselves. This short, thin woman, risking her life and the lives of her loved ones, tried to save a wounded soldier during that cruel war.

“In cruel times, we must 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 Soldier Alyosha. “I’m not a hero, I’m not a brave woman,” she laments. “Heroes are those who save lives.”

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

...On the outskirts of the village, at the site of the execution of six Kalachevites, riot police from Sergiev Posad installed a good-quality metal cross. The stones stacked at its base symbolize Golgotha. Residents of the village of Tukhchar are doing everything possible to perpetuate the memory of Russian soldiers who died defending Dagestan land.