Afghanistan - Chechnya

8 hrs. 23 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Narrators Ignatyev Dmitry (digig), Igor Knyazev, Semyon Yanishevsky, Alexander Rayder, Dmitry Faynshteyn, Lev Preobrazhenskiy, Evgeny Ostrovnoy, Alexander Gergel, Sergey Belchikov, Yulia Degtyarenko

Narrator Ignatyev Dmitry (digig)

Narrator Igor Knyazev

Narrator Semyon Yanishevsky

Narrator Alexander Rayder

Narrator Dmitry Faynshteyn

Narrator Lev Preobrazhenskiy

Narrator Evgeny Ostrovnoy

Narrator Alexander Gergel

Narrator Sergey Belchikov

Narrator Yulia Degtyarenko

Description

Afghanistan and Chechnya. Two wars. So different: one in distant Central Asia, the other on the threshold of home, in Russia. And at the same time so similar: unfamiliar climate and landscape, strange customs and traditions of the locals, an incomprehensible enemy armed and trained by foreign instructors. Similar in the suffering of those who, willingly or unwillingly, were touched by them — the grief of mothers of killed soldiers, shattered families, and orphaned children. But those who returned — did they truly return from their war? Was home ready for the return of its sons, wounded and maimed in body and soul? And for those who went through war, they are also alike in that in battle everyone sees only their own part of the “mosaic,” yet about that part they can speak with absolute certainty.
In this collection you will not find political assessments of the situation, armchair analysis, strategy, or tactics. Here is war through the eyes of its participants, frontline fighters — soldiers and officers who walked it with their own feet, and in places crawled on their bellies, just as our grandfathers and great-grandfathers once covered the dangerous miles of their terrible war. Perhaps that is the connection of times: that each generation tries to reach those who come after them, trying to convey the horror of wartime hardship, to teach something, to warn, to give a chance to survive and win.

Contents

01. Afghanistan. Foreword (read by Dmitry Ignatyev) (1:27)
02. Alexander Gergel — The Wonderful Gardens of Badakhshan (read by Igor Knyazev) (17:02)
03. Alexander Kartsev — The Great French Writer (read by Semyon Yanishevsky) (14:56)
04. Igor Negoruy — Death (read by Alexander Ryder) (19:21)
05. Alexander Gergel — Go West (read by Dmitry Faynshteyn) (43:59)
06. Sergey Skripal, Gennady Rytchenko — Symphony Valhalla (read by Lev Preobrazhensky) (20:46)
07. Igor Negoruy — Portrait (read by Igor Knyazev) (5:32)
08. Gleb Bobrov — Torn Souls (read by Lev Preobrazhensky) (64:39)
09. Andrey Voroshen — The Mountains Stood to the Death (read by Yevgeny Ostrovnoy) (26:01)
10. Pavel Andreyev — The Unwritten Letter (read by Lev Preobrazhensky) (31:47)
11. Alexander Gergel — The Devil's Mill (read by Alexander Gergel) (49:03)
12. Chechnya. Foreword (read by Dmitry Ignatyev) (1:03)
13. Vlad Ismagilov — A Question Without an Answer (read by Lev Preobrazhensky) (11:42)
14. Arkady Babchenko — Fly (read by Sergey Belchikov) (30:40)
15. Denis Butov — In August of '96 (read by Alexander Ryder) (20:15)
16. Alexey Muratov — Album (read by Lev Preobrazhensky) (8:57)
17. Denis Butov — How Dreams Do Not Come True (read by Alexander Ryder) (14:17)
18. Alexey Skver — The Second Courage (read by Lev Preobrazhensky) (16:51)
19. Yekaterina Nagovitsyna — Mi-24 (read by Yulia Degtyarenko) (46:29)
20. Vlad Ismagilov — Fool (read by Lev Preobrazhensky) (3:06)
21. Yekaterina Nagovitsyna — Thin String (read by Lev Preobrazhensky) (30:26)
22. Igor Mariukin — No Greater Love (read by Dmitry Faynshteyn) (16:46)
23. Nikolai Ivanov — Remember, O Lord (read by Dmitry Ignatyev) (8:22)