Black Sea Marine Corps in Chechnya. Chechen war through the eyes of a resident of Grozny From the explanatory of private Andrey Padyakov

In one of the posts, a dispute erupted over the war in Chechnya. Now comes the post-war period, when Russians and Chechens point fingers at each other, proving who is to blame for the war. The war has already ended and in order to turn this gloomy page, it is necessary to find an option for peaceful coexistence, and not fight in epilepsy proving who is to blame more. There is a wonderful proverb "don't wave your fists after a fight."

In this regard, I asked one Chechen girl (I would prefer to leave her identity anonymous) to tell her version of the events that took place. Her opinion is interesting, because judging by the communication, the girl did not give the impression of a fundamentalist or radical. I was not present in the area of \u200b\u200bhostilities, therefore my opinion was formed exclusively on those materials in the press to which an ordinary Russian citizen had access. In some ways, I do not agree with the opinion of the author of the story, because her opinion is also the opinion of the layman, in addition, she was de facto on the other side of the hostilities, but nevertheless I quote her story and expect from all thoughtful comments:

“I do not justify the actions of some of my compatriots, but you don’t just need to point your finger at us. We lived in a civilized manner, but according to our traditions, many Russians, especially Armenians and Jews, really liked our traditions.

Everyone knows very well that Dudayev was a man of the Kremlin and in a couple of days in the republic he set up his own self-government. His election was pure falsification. While the people sat in confusion and blinked their eyes in surprise and could not understand what was happening at all, Dudayev and his bunch of scum settled in the government with confidence. Until 1991 everything was quiet and peaceful. There was nothing that could portend danger. Then abruptly began conversations about teips (clans), such as which is the best and which is the worst. And off we go, disagreements between the Chechens. Before that, there was nothing like it. Everyone knew that this or that clan has its own sheep, but one clan is better than the other - it just did not fit in my head. This was done on purpose and the old people tried to keep the youth, which they did very skillfully, but not always.
It was not only the Russians in the 90s who suffered, but also the Chechens themselves. There were quite a few cases of seizure of houses and apartments of the Russian-speaking population, but criminal cases were also opened against the invaders, where Chechens gave testimony to help their Russian-speaking neighbors or friends. They tried not to give offense.

My aunts bought houses from Russian old people, helped them to leave - they took them with money so that someone would not take them away on the way even in Russia.
The Russians themselves complained to us that in Russia they were called Chechens and told to go back, and who was waiting for us then? Are we Chechens?
When my teacher in 1992 said that many were going to leave the republic, we were surprised. The Russian-speaking population was slowly leaving the republic, selling their houses and apartments not for low prices, and once in 1993 from my Chechen acquaintances who were leaving for the United States, I "in great secrecy" learned that there would be a war, but no one knows when. Since 1993, real estate prices have dropped because there were no salaries, and you yourself know that there was a mess everywhere, not only here.
The war was planned long ago and we were not asked anything.
I know that since 1994 in the Nadterechny region, where the bulk consisted of Cossacks, Nagays and Dagestanis, they got into the habit of robbing trains at the border. It was a sensation for us! Chechen thief - it was just an insult. They began to suppress and punish this business.
The Labazanov gang appeared at the end of 1992, which terrorized everyone without exception. I also experienced a case when my Chechen friend was almost dragged by stoned "Labazanovites" (as they were called) into the car. She was just lucky.

In 1993, Dudayev staged a massacre to capture this gang, after which Labazanov fled to Russia, and the gang disappeared (some were shot). Then Labazanov surfaced as an FSB colonel in the first war ... there are a lot of things that you Russians don't know. Instead of smearing us with dirt, it would be better to dig a little ourselves and understand what the reason was.
You cannot call the whole people "terrorists and murderers", this is not fair.
Now my people are embittered and there are many reasons for this.

How many Russian old grannies and oldies remained in Chechnya. The youth left and left their parents. How much they went and asked for alms. After the first war, a fat, sick old woman, Marya Ivanovna, lived in our entrance. Our parents forced us to take turns to carry water to her apartment, and she lived on the 5th floor. They shared food with her, and her daughter did not care about her. Her one-room apartment was worth nothing, and she herself had nothing, and she died alone. The Chechen neighbors were buried according to the Christian rite. I will not list all the neighbors and acquaintances, it just hurts me when we are all accused of something that we did not do, and specifically me, my relatives and friends.
How many Russian residents died in the first war, you can’t even imagine. Only from my group at the university, two guys died under the bombing at the very beginning of the war, and how many neighbors.

The Chechens did not need independence, everyone knew perfectly well that we would not get it. We just couldn't understand what kind of game we were being drawn into. No one believes to the last that there will be a war. When, after the meeting between Dudayev and Grachev, it was announced live on Chechen television that the troops would not be brought in and Dudayev was ready to resign allegedly, everyone sighed, but a day later the troops began to enter. The women boycotted, lay down on the roads, asked and begged, as I remember these shootings now, but some military man said: "We have been ordered to enter." it was December 10-11.

This is not the first time Russian troops have entered Chechnya. The very first was on November 26, 1994. Which I saw with my own eyes. I lived near the presidential palace, where the fighting took place for several hours.

The first Chechen won was pure in the minds of the Chechens, they simply defended their homes and villages, women and children. How would you react if your city was bombed indiscriminately with allegedly unknown planes, where children, women and old people would die, and no one would say anything about it? And not only would I not speak, but the Russian media would also report that no one is bombing anything ... everything is fine ...
Like it or not, you would take up arms, especially after you have looked at the actions of the contractors a little later.
The prisoners were given in the first war. Mothers of soldiers came and the Chechens gave them their sons just like that, without remuneration.
How much indignation was there when the Russian soldiers showed the exchange of prisoners of war, sleek, bandaged and themselves went over to their side, and the Chechens were carried in their arms, beaten, exhausted and could not stand on their feet. How to treat then?
The worst were contract soldiers, everyone hated them!
I remember an incident during the "truce" in the summer of 1995. Contractors walked around the bazaar (they could be identified by their faces and headscarves). So a 15-year-old boy cut the throat of one with a razor, who in front of his eyes had killed his entire family (father, mother, brothers and sisters) six months before and set the house on fire. He recognized him at the bazaar and decided to take revenge.
They wrote everything down to the contractors and the military, in Chechnya there was spontaneity on the part of the Russian military.
If in the first war women were not touched, then in the second they were killed and raped. An example with General Budanov is enough.
For a Chechen woman, being raped is equal to death. No one will ever marry her, and if there is no family, then there is no life ...
How many women and girls were raped in the second war, it's just a quiet horror ...

Dudaev did not have 30 thousand army, this is all a lie. There were a couple of thousand and was happy about it.
The militias fought and they were trained in the armies of the USSR, when they served for 2 years like everyone else. Everyone knew how to hold a weapon in their hands, but there was only a lack of weapons.
I know from the stories of my cousins \u200b\u200band uncles who fought in the first war. Their detachment at the very beginning consisted of 25 people, all relatives or friends among themselves. All of them have only 4-5 machine guns and a couple of pistols. When Grozny was assaulted on December 31, 1994, it was then that they took weapons from burning tanks and from killed soldiers. At the very beginning, they died and then the ranks were replenished in a detachment consisting of men from 18 to 40 years old. Then this detachment held negotiations in the summer with General Romanov, who was later undermined by rumors of their own. He treated the Chechens well and respected them. My relatives were famous and died mainly at the very end of the war from a mortar and artillery strike, when the civilian population of the city was given 24 hours to leave at the end of August 1996.

There was no army, and only later militia units began to contact each other.
I will never forget the tear-stained eyes of my relatives when they arrived at night in a mountain village where we (women and children) were. I have never seen even one man of my kind cry, but that's all. In early February, the Russian side gave a "white road" for the Chechens in the occupied territory to collect the corpses of people. The main part was children, women and old people. My relatives in a KAMAZ were collecting burnt and killed civilians, the corpses of Russian soldiers were gone. The next morning I ran to the center of the village, where they could identify the dead by documents or by faces, they were unloaded to prepare for the funeral. What I saw cannot be told and described in words.

After the Khasavyurt agreement, Chechnya received independence status and no one from the Kremlin was going to leave the republic. From the very first day they worked to resume hostilities and return the republic to Russia.
As Lebed once said: "Chechens are wolves, in order to defeat them, you need to raise wolfhounds." So wolfhounds were raised for 2 years, and in turn, they escalated the situation in Chechnya.
As soon as all Russian military prisoners were given after the signing of the agreement, after a while the Khachalaev brothers (mafiosi in Dagestan) arrive and offer $ 5,000 per soldier. Well, of course, the infrastructure has been destroyed, the city has also been rolled up, and here on a silver platter they bring such a surprise. They realized it, but there were no prisoners. What to do? And the Chechens are being told that it is possible to come to an agreement with the Russian military. So, the ensigns sent snotty soldiers somewhere to wave a shovel, and immediately they were lukewarm and grabbed the finished product for sale. The most interesting thing is that Berezovsky gave the Khachalaev brothers money for this case, and he gave 25 thousand for a soldier, knowing that they would steal. He needed to start the slave trade, and to show himself as a hero, like look, I'm saving our Russian soldiers. The slave trade went well until this shop with soldiers was closed even in Ossetia, where stolen soldiers from Mozdok were carefully transported. Money did everything. The chain worked perfectly!
But later the worst thing happened. In the course went their own (supposedly who were in opposition earlier or found some reasons there), and even later, they did not even disdain women.
The reason was simple - the Arabs trained. I hate Arabs! These are just finished creatures! It was they who began to say that Christians and Jews are not people, that the elders should not be respected (that all this does not fit into the head for a simple Chechen), that the soldiers should be killed - the throats should be cut. That's where it came from. Throughout my life and the life of my relatives and the history of my fellow tribesmen, I have never heard a Chechen cut someone's throat, never.
The cut throat footage was taken with a hidden camera by an Arab to account for his work in his home country. I saw these footage and remember conversations in Chechen before this massacre. The Chechen did not dare to do this for a long time until the Arabs pushed him with harsh words. And he did it because it was these soldiers who killed and raped his relatives. I understand that it was possible to kill, but not by the Arab method!
Berezovsky visited Chechnya more than once and met with all the "sex commanders" (I called them that), but he never met Maskhadov.
The most honest and legal election was the election of Aslan Maskhadov. This is the truly elected first Chechen president. He was a decent man, a good military man, but with a weak character. He could not cope with the sex commanders who did what they wanted. It was then that the Chechens really suffered between these wars.
Khattab is a man who hated Chechens and did not trust anyone, knowing his "burning tail" (as they say here). He lived for more than 5 years in Chechnya, knew Russian perfectly, but never once said even a greeting in Chechen. Only after that was it possible to be on the alert.

I remember very well the "attack" on Dagestan. This was a trap to start another war in Chechnya. In Dagestan, riots began (which only now began to be officially shown on central television), and then everything began. So, the local "Wahhabists" allegedly asked for help from the Muslim brothers from Chechnya.
The most interesting thing is that those who shouted the most did not go to the rescue, but went completely unsuspecting regular suckers. A couple of detachments entered, and there Russian troops were waiting for them. So much for the attack. A lot of simple and honest guys died.
Aslan Maskhadov ordered no one to enter Dagestan, but Basayev did not listen to anyone, he always worked for the Kremlin and did his job. And when he became dangerous and knew too much, he was simply removed like everyone else.
The explosions in Moscow and Volgodonsk have nothing to do with the Chechens. This has even been proven. Not a single Chechen was caught in this "high-profile case." The trial was closed. About Ryazan sugar, I hope you know about the incident in parliament, too, when a piece of paper was presented to the speaker of the Russian parliament on the air and he said that “they just handed over there was an explosion at home,” which did not follow that day, but an explosion occurred a couple of days later. in another area of \u200b\u200bMoscow.

In the second war, things were happening a thousand times worse than in the first. The first was flowers ...
It was just mesevo. Dirty commanders who had already fought not only with the Russian army, but also feared revenge from the Chechens. They had nothing to lose, so the jackals fought to the last, continuing to involve the common people. In turn russian army the green light was shown for outrage, atrocity, murder and rape. They were patted on the head for this and awarded orders and medals in front of their fatherland. GLORY TO THE RUSSIAN TROOPS AND GENERALS! But for some reason the people get the most optleuh. "

During the first assault on Grozny, when our guys-tankers were driven into the narrow streets and burned hard (why - there is a special conversation about this), many cars were lost. Some were completely burned out, some were captured by the "Czechs", some disappeared along with the crews.

Soon, rumors began to circulate among various units that some special secret tank unit began to participate in the battles, in service with only one serviceable vehicle, the T-80, with a white stripe on the turret and without a tactical number. This tank appeared in different places - in the mountains, on passes, in "greenery", on the outskirts of villages, but never in the settlements themselves, even completely destroyed.

How he got there, from where, in what way, by whose order - no one knew. But as soon as a unit of our guys, especially conscripts, got into trouble - in an ambush, under flanking fire, etc., suddenly a T-80 tank appeared from somewhere, with a white smoky stripe on the tower, burnt paint and shot down blocks of active armor ...

The tankers never got in touch, they did not open the hatches. At the most critical moment of the battle, this tank appeared out of nowhere, opened surprisingly accurate and effective fire, and either attacked or covered, allowing its own to withdraw and take out the wounded. Moreover, many saw how the cumulative grenade launchers, shells, and ATGMs fell into the tank, without causing any visible harm.

Then the tank disappeared in the same incomprehensible way, as if it were dissolving into the air. The fact that there were "eighties" in Chechnya is widely known. But what is less known is that soon after the start of the campaign they were withdrawn from there, since the gas turbine engine in these parts is exactly the same engine that corresponded to the theater of operations and the conditions of hostilities.

Personally, I was told about their meeting with the "Eternal Tank" by two people whom I unconditionally trust, and if they tell anything and vouch for their story, it means that they themselves consider it the TRUTH. This is Stepan Igorevich Beletsky, the story about "The Eternal" from which we squeezed out almost by force (the man is a realist to the bone and to tell what he himself could not find a rationalistic explanation - for him it is almost a feat) and one of in the past, officers of the Novocherkassk SOBR, a direct witness to the battle of the "Eternal Tank" with the Czechs.

Already at the very end of the First Campaign, their group ensured the withdrawal of the medical personnel of the District Hospital of the North Caucasus Military District who remained with the "heavy" ones. They waited an extra day for the promised air cover - the weather was fine - the "turntables" never came. Either they felt sorry for the fuel, or forgotten - in the end, they decided to go out on their own. They went out in the Urals with "three hundred" and medics and two armored vehicles.

We moved beyond zero, after midnight, after dark, and slipped through like a clean, but a little less than two dozen miles before the "demarcation" line ran into an ambush - Czechs with a rifleman with the support of a T-72. Unfolded in a fan, began to cover the departure of the "Ural". But what is a beter versus a tank? Immediately burned one, the second died - stalled.

This is what I have written down from the words of my friend - this is almost a verbatim record.

“From the T-72 they hit us with high-explosives. It is stony there, at the break, the wave and fragments go low, stone chips again. The spirit is literate, does not come close, you cannot reach it from the border. At this moment, the "Eternal" appears from the dust at the site of the next gap, right in the middle of the road, as if it had been there all the time - just now it was not there, just now the Urals passed! And he stands like an invisible person, no one except us seems to see him. And he stands, burned all over, ugly, the antennas are knocked down, he is all pummeled, he only drives a little with a tower and shakes his trunk like an elephant in a zoo with its trunk.

Here - bam! - gives a shot. The "Czech" has a tower to the side and to the side. Bam! - gives the second. Spirit into the fire! And the "Eternal" barrel blew, it stands in a white cloud, spinning on the tracks and only a machine-gun crackle. After the cannon, it sounds like a seed husk. The spirits lay in the green, we went to the beter. They opened the mechanic, dragged the dead man away, let's start it up. The turret jammed, but nothing, we, who survived, jumped inside - and in a turn. And "Eternal" suddenly from its cannon, as from a machine gun, quickly, quickly like this: Bam! -Bam! -Bam!

We are on gases. Here Seryoga Dmitriev shouts - "Eternal" is gone! " I myself did not see it, it became bad for me, I began to vomit with a nervous breakdown on myself and around. Well, as they galloped to their own - so we got used to the smoke, you understand. Then they started a quarrel with local cops in a rage and on a booze, they almost shot the assholes.

And no one was told about the "Eternal" then - who would believe ... "

The first and second Chechen wars, otherwise called the "First Chechen conflict" and "counter-terrorist operation on the territory North Caucasus"Became, perhaps, the bloodiest pages recent history Russia. These military conflicts are striking in their brutality. They brought terror and explosions of houses with sleeping people to the territory of Russia. But, in the history of these wars, there were people who, perhaps, can be considered criminals no less terrible than terrorists. They are traitors.

Sergey Orel

He fought in the North Caucasus on a contract basis. In December 1995, he was captured by militants. They released him a year later and sent the rescued "Caucasian prisoner" to Grozny. And then the incredible happened: a Russian soldier, languishing in cruel captivity and happily released, stole a Kalashnikov assault rifle, uniforms and personal belongings from the military prosecutor's office, hijacked a Ural truck and rushed off towards the militants. Here, in fact, it became clear that in captivity the Eagle did not live in poverty at all, but allowed himself to be recruited without much trouble. He converted to Islam, studied sapper business in one of the Khattab camps, and took part in hostilities. In 1998, with a fake passport in the name of Alexander Kozlov, he showed up in Moscow, where he controlled construction markets. The proceeds were transferred through special messengers to the Caucasus to support the “brothers in arms”. This business stopped only when the special services got on the trail of Orel-Kozlov. The defector was tried and received a serious sentence.

Lemons and Klochkov

Privates Konstantin Limonov and Ruslan Klochkov in the fall of 1995 decided to somehow go for vodka. They left their checkpoint and went to the village of Katyr-Yurt, where they were tied up by the militants without any problems. Once in captivity, Limonov and Klochkov did not think for a long time and almost immediately agreed to become overseers in the federal prisoner of war camp. Limonov even took the name Kazbek. They performed their duties very diligently, surpassing even the Chechens themselves in cruelty. One of the prisoners, for example, was smashed through the head with a rifle butt. The other was thrown onto a red-hot oven. The third was beaten to death. Both participated in the execution of sixteen Russian soldiers who were condemned to death by Islamists. One of the militants personally set an example for them by cutting the throat of the first convict and then holding out a knife to the traitors. They complied with the order, and then finished off the agonizing soldiers from a machine gun. All this was recorded on video. When in 1997 federal troops cleared out the area where their gang was operating, Limonov and Klochkov tried to impersonate the released hostages and hoped that the most serious thing that threatened them was a term for desertion. However, the investigation made their "exploits" known to the Russian justice system.

Alexander Ardyshev - Seraji Dudaev

In 1995, the unit in which Ardyshev served was transferred to Chechnya. Alexander had very little to serve, just a few weeks. However, he decided to drastically change his life and deserted from the unit. It was in the village of Vedeno. By the way, one cannot say about Ardyshev that he betrayed his comrades, since he had no comrades. During his service, he was noted for the fact that he periodically stole things and money from his fellow soldiers, and there was not one among the soldiers of his unit who would treat Ardyshev as a friend. First, he got into the detachment of the field commander Mavladi Khusain, then fought under the command of Isa Madaev, then in the detachment of Khamzat Musayev. Ardyshev converted to Islam and became Seraji Dudayev. Seraji's new service began to guard the captives. The stories about how the yesterday's Russian soldier Alexander, and now the warrior of Islam Seraji, subjected his former colleagues to what bullying and torture is simply scary to read. He beat the prisoners, shot the unwanted on the orders of his superiors. One soldier, wounded and exhausted by bondage, was forced to learn the Koran by heart, and when he was wrong, he beat him. Once, for the amusement of the militants, he set fire to gunpowder on the back of the unfortunate. He was so confident in his impunity that he did not even hesitate to declare himself to the Russian side in his new guise. One day, he arrived in Vedeno with his commander Mavladi to settle a conflict between local residents and federal troops. Among the federals was his former boss, Colonel Kukharchuk. Ardyshev approached him to show off his new status and threatened him with reprisals.

When the military conflict ended, Seraji got his own house in Chechnya and began to serve in the border and customs service. And then in Moscow one of the Chechen bandits Sadulayev was convicted. His comrades and associates in Chechnya decided that the respected person should be exchanged. And exchanged for ... Alexander-Serad zhi. The deserter and traitor was not at all interested in the new masters. To avoid unnecessary trouble, Seraji drank tea with sleeping pills, and when he passed out, they handed over to the authorities Russian Federation... Surprisingly, finding himself outside Chechnya, Seraji immediately remembered that he was Alexander and began to ask to return to the Russians and the Orthodox. He was sentenced to 9 years of strict regime.

Yuri Rybakov

This man, too, was by no means wounded and unconscious in captivity by the militants. He went over to them voluntarily in September 1999. After passing special training, he became a sniper. I must say that Rybakov was a well-aimed sniper. In just one month, he made 26 notches on the butt of his rifle - one for each "removed" soldier. Rybakov was taken to the village of Ulus-Kert, where federal troops surrounded the militants.

Vasily Kalinkin - Wahid

This man served as a warrant officer in one of the units of Nizhny Tagil, and he was stealing on a large scale. And when it smelled of fried food, he ran away and went to serve in the army of "free Ichkeria". Here he was sent to study at an intelligence school in one of the Arab countries. Kalinkin converted to Islam and began to be called Wahid. They took him to Volgograd, where the newly-minted spy came to reconnoitre and prepare acts of sabotage.

Soon, rumors began to circulate among various units that some special secret tank unit began to take part in the battles, in service with only one serviceable T-80 vehicle with a white stripe on the turret and without a tactical number. This tank appeared in different places - in the mountains, on passes, in "greenery", on the outskirts of villages, but never in the settlements themselves, even completely destroyed.

Tankers never got in touch, did not open hatches. At the most critical moment of the battle, this tank appeared out of nowhere, opened surprisingly accurate and effective fire and either attacked or covered, allowing its own to retreat and take out the wounded. Moreover, many saw how the cumulative grenade launchers, shells, and ATGMs fell into the tank, without causing any visible harm.

Then the tank disappeared in the same incomprehensible way, as if it were dissolving into the air. The fact that there were "eighties" in Chechnya is widely known. But what is less known is that soon after the start of the campaign they were withdrawn from there, since the gas turbine engine in these parts is not at all the engine that corresponded to the theater of operations and the conditions of hostilities.

Personally, I was told about their meeting with the "Eternal Tank" by two people whom I unconditionally trust and, if they tell anything and vouch for their story, then they themselves consider it the TRUTH. This is Stepan Igorevich Beletsky, the story about "The Eternal" from which we squeezed out almost by force (the man is a realist to the bone and to tell what he himself could not find a rationalistic explanation - for him it is almost a feat) and one of in the past, officers of the Novocherkassk SOBR, a direct witness to the battle of the "Eternal Tank" with the Czechs.

“With the T-72 they hit us with high-explosives. It is stony there, at the break, the wave and fragments go low, stone chips again. The spirit is literate, it doesn't come close, you can't get it out of the border. At this moment, the "Eternal" appears from the dust at the site of the next gap, right in the middle of the road, as if it had been there all the time - just now it was not there, just now the Urals passed! And he stands like an invisible person, no one except us seems to see him. And he stands, all burned, ugly, the antennas are knocked down, he is all pummeled, only he drives a little with a tower and shakes his trunk like an elephant with a trunk in a zoo.

Here - bam! - gives a shot. The "Czech" has a tower to the side and to the side. Bam! - gives the second. Spirit into the fire! And the "Eternal" barrel blew, it stands in a white cloud, spinning on the tracks and only a machine-gun crackle. After the cannon, it sounds like a seed husk. The spirits lay in the green, we went to the beter. They opened the mechanic, dragged the dead man away, let's start it up. The turret jammed, but nothing, we, who survived, jumped inside - and in a turn. And the "Eternal" suddenly from its cannon, as from a machine gun, quickly, quickly like this: Bam! -Bam! -Bam!

We are on gases. Here Seryoga Dmitriev shouts - "Eternal" is gone! " I myself did not see it, it became bad for me, I began to vomit with a nervous breakdown on myself and around. Well, as they galloped to their own - so we got used to the smoke, you understand. Then, with the local cops, they started a quarrel in a rage and on a booze, they almost shot the assholes.

And no one was told about the "Eternal" then - who would believe ...

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