There were three weeks left before the chimes of the New Year, 1980. Like millions of compatriots, twenty-four-year-old Alexander Zhagulo planned to celebrate the holiday with his family, together with his young wife. But the "battle alarm" broke into the plans of the Soviet citizen. From the then capital of the airborne troops, Borovukhi-1, the guy came to Kabul with a machine gun on his shoulder and an alarming suitcase in his hand. Zhagulo served in the legendary "fifty" as a technician of the parachute company.
- At that time, there were no mobile phones, and I received an alert about the alarm on the night of December 10 from a messenger. I immediately ran to the regiment, went up to the third floor to my company. Then I went to the park together with the drivers-mechanics of a combat vehicle of the airborne, - the man is transported to the events of that night. - To be honest, our regiment was expecting a training "battle alarm". In December 1979, on the basis of the 350th Guard Airborne regiment, the training of the commander of the Airborne Forces took place. And, as a rule, they ended with local exercises. Therefore, we thought that the regiment would march to one of the selected areas within the Soviet Union, hold a small exercise there, and in a few days, a week at most, return home...
But how wrong the Guard ensign Alexander Zhagulo was! Fate and the order of the Central Committee of the CPSU to send troops to Afghanistan was to separate him from his wife for six months. And fifteen days after the messenger's knock - the first news of the death of fellow soldiers. On December 25, 1979, a military-transport IL-76 crashed near Kabul. 6 crew members and 37 paratroopers died, among them a friend and a comrade of the Zhagulo - Guard Ensign Yevgeny Bulat.
- Yevgeny had a son in those anxious December days, and he did not have time to see him, - at this moment, with wrinkles on his forehead, Alexander Vladimirovich pauses, takes a breath. On the military jacket, in which the man came to the interview, the Order of the Red Star is visible. - The whole Borovukha then froze. The first corpses came to the village...
This film is about the war in Afghanistan and at the same time not about it. Our film crew did not try, and did not set out to whitewash those terrible events, putting a modern touch of heroism on the old pages of forgotten history (as the veterans themselves admit). Or find the culprits in this damn pit of pain, sufferings, broken destinies and obeyed orders. No. We just talked to those who were "over the river". We asked about everyday life, shelling, Mujahideen, death, funerals, and whether it was possible to refuse. We hope that the story turned out to be sincere, because the fate of a little man is at the center of the whole story.
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11 фев 2021
