Even the most monstrous of mankind's creations - war - is also life. With their own laws and regulations. And it has a place for everything that surrounds us in peaceful reality. Greatness and meanness, fear and courage, love and hate, light and darkness. Only brighter, more prominent, and more exposed. The Afghan war still causes different assessments of politicians, historians, and the military. And this can be considered quite normal. Something else is alarming. Over time, historical generalizations and the scale of conclusions displace a simple worker of the bitter and harsh hard times-a soldier of that unknown war. Regardless of his shoulder straps or even their complete absence (there are a lot of civilian personnel among the "Afghans"). About them, quite specific soldiers-internationalists, less and less is said, removed, written. And this is bad. What will we leave to our descendants, how and what will they say about the "Afghan" warriors? And will they even talk? If we convey to them only a trail of criminal proceedings on individual semi-criminal veteran funds, if we remain indifferent to disabled people sitting in wheelchairs in underground passages with an outstretched hand, if we allow ourselves to repeat only a political mistake and a military adventure to please the market. If we forget about the simple soldier of war, about the greatness and immortality of his military service, even on a foreign land, but to his Fatherland. He who has never known war, let him never know it. It is bitter and painful to know it from the inside. But how important it is, even in a small fraction, even in a thousandth part, to come into contact with it, to get into the feelings, thoughts, and actions of those who fought there, Of course, the archival photographs of a front-line correspondent can tell very little. War has many faces. But one thing is immediately clear in these unsophisticated plots: war is the hardest work. So, it is impossible to treat its simple worker ... Read more