Execution of Russians in Chechnya. What militants did with captured Russian soldiers in the Chechen war Russian soldiers execute

Be careful! People with weak psyches should not read this post!
These are the same soldiers, dear Russian boys, about whom the abomination Shevchenko said that they were not Russian, but Yeltsin.

Original taken from uglich_jj in Tukhchar massacre (18+).

1.Forgotten Platoon

It was September 5, 1999. Early in the morning, a gang of Chechens attacked the village of Tukhchar in Dagestan. The militants were commanded by Umar Edilsultanov, also known as Umar Karpinsky (from the Karpinka district in Grozny). Opposing them was a platoon of senior lieutenant Tashkin from the 22nd brigade of internal troops: an officer, 12 conscripts and one infantry fighting vehicle.

They dug in on a commanding height above the village. In addition to the soldiers, there were 18 more Dagestani policemen in Tukhchar. They were dispersed throughout the village: at two checkpoints at the entrances and at the local police station.

One of the Dagestani checkpoints was right next to Tashkin, at the foot of the high-rise building. True, Russians and Dagestanis hardly communicated or interacted. Everyone for themselves. Muslim Dakhkhaev, head of the local police department, recalled:

“Upstairs, at the height, are the positions of the internal troops, and below is our police post. They - two posts - seemed to exist separately. For some reason the military did not really make contact with local population and with the local police. They were suspicious of our attempts to establish contacts... There was no interaction between the police and the military. They buried themselves in the ground and protected themselves.".

They buried themselves in the ground and protected themselves...

Umar had about 50 people in his gang, all Wahabbis were fanatics waging jihad. By fighting “for faith,” they hope to go to heaven. Unlike Christianity, in Islam paradise has an erotic meaning. A man in heaven will have 72 wives: 70 earthly women and 2 houris (special virgins for afterlife sex). The Quran and Sunnah repeatedly describe these wives with all the details. For example, here:

“Allah will not allow anyone into Paradise without marrying him to 72 wives, two will be virgins (gurias) with large eyes, and 70 will be inherited from the inhabitants of Fire. Each of them will have a vagina that gives pleasure, and he (the man) will have a sexual organ that will not descend during intercourse.”(Sunan Ibn Majah, 4337).

But a Muslim still needs to get to heaven with vaginas. It's not easy, but there is a sure way - to become a martyr. Shahid goes to heaven with a guarantee. All his sins are forgiven. The funeral of a martyr is often held as a wedding, with expressions of joy. After all, consider the deceased to have gotten married. He now has 72 vaginas and a perpetual erection. The cult of death and afterlife sex in the untouched brains of a savage is a serious matter. This is already a zombie. He goes to kill and is ready to die himself.

Umar's gang enters Dagestan. The journey to heavenly vaginas has begun.

One of the militants walked with a video camera and filmed everything that was happening. The film, of course, is terrible... Three life sentences have already been handed down based on it.

On the left is the leader (Umar), on the right is one Arab from his gang:

At 6:40 am the militants attacked the village. First, the farthest (from the high-rise) checkpoint, then the village police department. They quickly occupied them and went to the height where Tashkin’s platoon was. The battle here was hot, but also short-lived. Already at 7:30 the BMP was hit by a grenade launcher. And without its 30-mm automatic cannon, the Russians lost their main trump card. The platoon left its position. Carrying the wounded, they went down to the checkpoint to the Dagestanis.

The post was the last center of resistance. The Chechens attacked it, but could not take it. It was well fortified and allowed to defend for some time. Until help arrives or the ammunition runs out. But there were problems with this. No help was forthcoming that day. The militants crossed the border in several places, the Lipetsk riot police were surrounded in the village of Novolakskoye, and all forces were thrown into rescuing him. The command had no time for Tukhchar.

The defenders of the village were abandoned. There was also no ammunition for a long battle in Tukhchar. Soon envoys from among the local residents came from the Chechens. Let the Russians leave the checkpoint, otherwise we will start a new assault and kill everyone. Time to think - half an hour. The commander of the Dagestanis, Lieutenant Akhmed Davdiev, had already died in a street battle in the village at that time; junior sergeant Magomedov remained in charge.

Dagestani commanders: Akhmed Davdiev and Abdulkasim Magomedov. Both died that day.

After listening to the Chechens' ultimatum, Magomedov invites everyone to leave the checkpoint and take refuge in the village. Local residents are ready to help - give them civilian clothes, hide them in their homes, take them outside. Tashkin is against it. Magomedov is a junior sergeant, Tashkin is an officer of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Tashkin is much older in rank. A conflict arises, escalating into a fight...

In the end, Tashkin agreed to leave the checkpoint. Tough decision. At this point, the organized defense of the village stopped. The defenders split into small groups, hiding in attics, basements, and corn fields. Then everything depended on luck, some were lucky to leave, others were not...

Of the Dagestan policemen, most were unable to leave Tukhchar. They were captured. According to some sources: 14 people out of 18. They were herded to a village store:

And then they took me to Chechnya. From there, from the zindans, their relatives and intermediaries bought them out months later.

The police commander Abdulkasim Magomedov, who insisted on leaving the checkpoint, died. He did not want to give up and was killed in battle. In Tashkin’s platoon of 13 people, 7 survived. They were sheltered by local residents and helped to reach their own. Tashkin himself and four soldiers with him were blocked in the barn of local resident Chelavi Gamzatov. They were asked to surrender. They guaranteed life or they would throw grenades at us. They believed. On his way out, Tashkin gave Gamzatov a photograph of his wife and daughter, which he carried with him...

Photo from the local school museum. The same barn (with a burnt roof) is in the background.

The Chechens took another (sixth) prisoner from the house of local resident Attikat Tabieva. It was the shell-shocked and burnt mechanic-driver of the BMP Alexei Polagaev. Finally, Alexey gave the Dagestan woman a soldier’s badge and said: “What will they do to me now, mother?...”

This monument stands today on the outskirts of the village of Tukhchar in memory of the six fallen Russian soldiers. Stella, cross, barbed wire instead of a fence.

This is a “people's memorial” created on the initiative of village residents, primarily teachers from the local high school. Neither the Russian Ministry of Defense nor the federal authorities participated in the creation of the monument. Relatives of the victims did not respond to letters and never came here. Information was collected by local residents bit by bit.

There are errors on the monument: grammatical (from the point of view of the Russian language) and factual. Tashkin’s birthplace is indicated as the village of “Valadyarka”:

In fact, this is Volodarka near Barnaul. The future commander attended school there. And he was originally from the neighboring village of Krasnoyarka.

Also, one of the dead is incorrectly indicated on the monument:

Anisimov is a guy from the Armavir special forces (Vyatich detachment), he also died in Dagestan in those days, but in a different place. They fought at the TV Tower height, 10 kilometers from Tukhchar. The infamous height where, due to the mistakes of the generals at the headquarters, an entire special forces detachment died (including from attacks by their own aircraft).

There were no special forces in Tukhchar, there were ordinary motorized rifles. One of them, Lesha Paranin, the gunner of that very BMP on the high-rise, looked similar to Anisimov.

Both met a terrible death; the militants violated their bodies both here and there. They earned money for their vaginas. Well, then, thanks to the light hand of one journalist, confusion arose, which migrated to monuments and memorial plaques. The mother of special forces soldier Anisimov even came to the trial of one of the militants from Umar’s gang. I watched the video of the massacre. Naturally, she did not find her son there. The militants killed the other guy.

This guy, Alexey Paranin, was a good shot from an infantry fighting vehicle in that battle. The militants had losses. A 30mm automatic cannon shell is not a bullet. These are severed limbs, or even cut in half. The Chechens executed Paranin first during the massacre of prisoners.

Well, the fact that Anisimov is on the monument instead of him is not so scary for a people's memorial. There is no monument at the “Televyshka” height, and Private Anisimov from the “Vyatich” detachment is also a hero of that war. Let him be remembered this way at least.

By the way, speaking of May 9... Here is the emblem of the Vyatich detachment, where Anisimov served. The emblem was invented in the 2000s.

The squad's motto: “My honor is loyalty!” A familiar phrase. This was once the motto of the SS troops (Meine Ehre heißt Treue!), which was a quote from one of Hitler's sayings. On May 9, in Armavir (as well as in Moscow) there is probably a lot of talk about how we preserve traditions, etc. Whose traditions?

2. The bright holiday of Kurban Bayram.

After the Chechens took six Russian prisoners in the village, they were taken to a former checkpoint on the outskirts of the village. Umar radioed the militants to gather there. The public execution began, filmed in great detail.

Muslims have a holiday called Kurban Bayram... This is when, according to custom, they slaughter rams, as well as cows, camels, etc. This is done publicly, in the presence (and with the participation) of children, who have become accustomed to such pictures since childhood. Cattle are slaughtered according to special rules. The animal's throat is first cut with a knife and the blood is waited until the blood drains.

Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. October 2013

While the blood is draining, the animal is still alive for some time. With its trachea, esophagus and arteries cut, it wheezes, chokes on blood, and tries to breathe. It is very important that when making an incision, the animal’s neck is directed towards Mecca, and “Bismillahi, Allahu Akbar” (in the name of Allah, Allah is great) is pronounced over it.

Kedah, Malaysia. October 2013. The agony does not last long, 5-10 minutes.

Faisalabad, Pakistan. Eid al-Fitr 2012. This is a photo from the holiday, if anything.

After the blood has drained, the head is cut off and the cutting of the carcass begins. A reasonable question: how is this different from what happens every day at any meat processing plant? - Because there the animal is first stunned with electric shock. The next step (cutting the throat, draining the blood) occurs when he is already unconscious.

The rules for preparing “halal” (clean) meat in Islam do not allow stunning the animal during slaughter. It must bleed while conscious. Otherwise, the meat will be considered “unclean.”

Tver, November 2010. Kurban Bayram in the area of ​​the cathedral mosque on Sovetskaya street, 66.

Conveyor. While they are slaughtering there, other participants in the festival with their sheep arrive at the mosque.

Eid al-Adha comes from the biblical story about the temptation of Abraham (Ibrahim in Islam). God commanded Abraham to sacrifice his son, and specifically to cut his throat and burn him at the stake. And all to test his (Abraham’s) love for himself. Abraham tied up his son, laid him on top of the firewood and was already preparing to slaughter him, but at the last moment God changed his mind - he said (through an angel) to sacrifice an animal, not a person.

Michelangelo de Caravaggio. "Abraham's Sacrifice" 1601-1602
He's the one cutting his son, if anything.

In memory of the temptation of Abraham, Islam (as well as Judaism) ritually slaughters animals every year. Since in both cases they are cut without stunning, in full consciousness, in a number of countries (Scandinavia, Switzerland, Poland) this was banned as cruelty to animals.

Lahore, Pakistan, November 2009 If you think this is a slaughterhouse, you are mistaken. This is the courtyard of the local mosque on the day of the holiday.

Peshawar, Pakistan, November 2009 But cutting a camel's throat is not so easy.

Finally, the butcher gets a particularly good hit with the knife. Bismillahi, Allahu Akbar!

Rafah, Gaza Strip. 2015. Public observation of an animal slowly bleeding.

Ibid., 2012. Rare shot. The cow, doomed to slaughter, broke free and impaled her tormentors on the horns.

3. Paranin Alexey.

Tukhchar, 1999. Russian prisoners are collected at a checkpoint, then taken out into the street. They put it on the ground. Some have their hands tied behind their backs, some don't.

The first to be executed is Alexey Paranin, an infantry fighting vehicle gunner. His throat is cut and he is left to lie down.

Blood is pouring all around.

Alexey was seriously wounded when an infantry fighting vehicle exploded and was burned. He doesn’t offer any resistance, it seems like he’s unconscious. It was this gunman in black and with a beard who cut him up (who he is is still unknown).

Having started to cut, the killer goes somewhere, but soon comes again

And he begins to cut the victim’s throat completely

Almost beheading Alexei.

Alexey Paranin, a 19-year-old guy from Udmurtia. Graduated from vocational school as a bricklayer, was supposed to become a builder

This is his native village of Vernyaya Tyzhma, 100 km from Izhevsk. This is not the 19th century. This is a black and white photo taken by modern Izhevsk photographer Nikolai Glukhov while in these places.

4. Tashkin Vasily.

After Paranin, the militants were the second to execute senior officer Tashkin. The killer sat astride him, some kind of struggle is visible there...

But soon the lieutenant’s throat is also cut.

A Chechen cameraman takes sadistic pleasure in filming the death of an officer.

The face of the killer, who cut the lieutenant’s throat, is not very clearly visible on the film, but you can hear that those around him call him Arbi, and in the process they give him a larger knife... Here he is in the crowd of spectators after Tashkin’s execution.

This Chechen was later found. This is a certain Arbi Dandaev from Grozny. Here he is in court (in a cage):

At the trial, his lawyers, by the way, tried very hard. They said that the defendant repented of what he had done, realized everything, understood. They asked to take into account his heavy " mental trauma» in the past, the presence of young children.

The court gave him a life sentence.

Officer Tashkin, who was stabbed by Arby's, was later criticized by some Internet analysts. For stupidity and cowardice. Why did he surrender, go under the knife and put people to death...

Vasily Tashkin is a simple guy from the village of Krasnoyarka in Altai.

In 1991 he entered the Military School in Novosibirsk, and from 1995 he joined the army. In those years, officers left the army in batches, cheap salaries, life, housing. Tashkin remained to serve. Vanka the platoon commander of our days...

Taking the oath at school

The village of Krasnoyarka, Topchikhinsky district, is about 100 km from Barnaul along a good (by local standards) road.

Beautiful places.

An ordinary village, huts, carts (the photos below were taken in this village in the summer)

Dagestan Tukhchar, where there are solid stone houses, looks richer...

In the fall of 1999, Tashkin was sent to Tukhchar to guard a dangerous section of the border with Chechnya. Moreover, he had to do this with extremely small forces. However, they accepted the battle and fought for 2 hours until the situation began to run out of ammunition. Where is the cowardice here?

As for captivity... One Englishman, a participant in the Anglo-Boer War at the beginning of the 20th century, wrote:

“I crawled ashore... A horseman appeared from the other side of the railroad, called out to me and waved his hand. He was less than forty yards away... I extended my hand with my Mauser. But I left it in the locomotive box. There was a wire fence between me and the rider. Run again? But the thought of another shot from such a close distance stopped me. Death stood before me, gloomy and gloomy, death without its careless companion - chance. So I raised my hands and, like Mr. Jorrocks' foxes, I shouted, "I surrender."

Fortunately for the Englishman (and this was Winston Churchill), the Boers are civilized people and did not cut the throats of prisoners. Churchill later escaped from captivity and, after many days of wandering, managed to make his way to his own people.

Was Winston Churchill a coward?

5. Lipatov Alexey.

Having killed Anisimov and Tashkin, the Chechens ordered Private Lipatov to stand up. Lipatov looks around. To his right is Tashkin’s corpse, to his left is Paranin, wheezing, bleeding. Lipatov understands what awaits him.

On the orders of Umar, a certain Tamerlan Khasaev from the village of Dachu-Borzoi (with a knife in a blue T-shirt) was to slaughter the prisoner.

But Lipatov began to actively resist and Khasaev only wounded him. Then a militant in black, already familiar to us, who killed Paranin, came to Khasaev’s aid. Together they try to finish off the victim.

A fight ensues

And suddenly, bleeding Lipatov was able to get up, broke free and started running.

Alexey Lipatov is the only one of the prisoners whose throat was not cut. The Chechens chased after him, shooting after him. They finished him off in some ditch, riddled with machine guns. According to Lipatov’s mother, when her son was brought to his native village of Aleksandrovka near Orenburg, the military forbade opening the coffin: “There is no face.” So they buried it without opening it.

The regional authorities provided the soldier's parents with financial aid, 10 thousand rubles.

The date of death is indicated as 09/06/1999, one day later. On that day, the militants handed over the corpses to the head of the Tukhchar village council, and he took them by truck to the nearest federal forces checkpoint (Gerzelsky Bridge). In reality, Lipatov and his comrades were killed on September 5.

The soldier’s parents were not told what happened to their son. They found out everything only in 2002, when the militant Khasaev was caught and the parents were summoned to trial. In complete silence, a video recording of the execution of prisoners was shown in the hall. “Here is my son!” - Lipatov’s father cried out at some point.

Tamerlan Khasaev.

Khasaev dodged as best he could during the trial. He said that he had just begun to kill Lipatov, but did not undercut, because... I couldn't psychologically. " I couldn't kill the soldier. He also asked: “Don’t kill me. I want to live." My heart started beating fast and I felt a little sick».

In addition, Khasaev stated that during the investigation they extorted testimony from him through threats. But he is embarrassed to say what they threatened to say.

“Were you not shy when you cut them?"- asked the prosecutor.
“They threatened to do to me what they do to a woman", answered Khasaev.
“So you’re saying that they wanted to screw you over?— the judge perked up. — Don’t be shy, we’re all doctors here.”.

Of course, criminal jargon from the lips of a judge does not decorate a Russian court, but Khasaev got his way. He was also given a life sentence. Shortly after the verdict, he died in prison. His heart started beating and he felt a little sick.

6.Kaufman Vladimir.

After Lipatov, it was the turn of Private Vladimir Kaufman. One of the militants, named Rasul, drags Kaufman into a clearing and demands that he lie face down. This makes cutting easier.

Kaufman begs Rasul not to kill him. He says that he is ready to hand over the wounded BMP gunner, who is “hiding in that white house over there.”

The proposal is of no interest to the militants. They had just killed the BMP gunner. The almost headless corpse of Alexei Paranin (his head rests on one spine) lies nearby. Then Kaufman promises to show where “the weapons are hidden.” Somewhere in the mountains.

Rasul is getting tired of the delay. Kaufman is ordered to remove his belt and place his hands behind his back. He understands that it is the end. “I don’t want to die, don’t kill, good people!” he shouts. “Kind, kind. Good guys!” says the video camera operator with a strong Chechen accent.

A fight ensues. Two other militants pounce on Kaufman and try to wring his hands.

They can't do it. Then one of them hits the victim on the head with a butt.

Kaufman is stunned and Rasul begins to stab him in the back of the head.

In the end, when the prisoner has already lost consciousness, his throat is cut.

The guy was 19 years old.

The militant Rasul, who cut Vladimir’s throat, was not found. According to one version, he died later during some special operation, as reported on the websites of Chechen separatists. Here is his photo:

But they caught two of Rasul’s assistants who were holding Kaufman before the murder.

This is Islan Mukaev. He wringed Kaufman's hands.

And Rezvan Vagapov. He held his head while Rasul cut his throat.

Mukaev received 25 years, Vagapov - 18.

The soldier they killed was buried thousands of kilometers from Tukhchar, in his native village of Aleksandrovskoye in the Tomsk region. A large ancient village on the banks of the Ob...

Everything is the same as everywhere else (photo of the village - 2011).

Vladimir Kaufman was born and raised here. He received his surname from his grandfather, a Volga German, who was exiled here under Stalin.

Vladimir's mother Maria Andreevna at her son's grave.

7. Erdneev Boris.

Having stabbed Kaufman, the militants took on Boris Erdneev, a Kalmyk who was a sniper in Tashkin’s platoon. Boris had no chance; his hands were tied in advance. The video shows one of the Chechens holding Erdneev by the chest with one hand.

Erdneev looks in horror at the Chechen’s other hand. It contains a large knife with traces of blood.

He tries to talk to the executioner:

“You respect Kalmyks, don’t you?”- he asks.
“We respect you very much, haha, - the Chechen says maliciously behind the scenes, - lie down".

The victim is thrown to the ground.

The Chechen who killed Boris Erdneev was later found. This is a certain Mansur Razhaev from Grozny.

In 2012 he received a life sentence.

During the execution, Razhaev was not at all embarrassed by the camera. But at the trial he really didn’t want to be filmed.

According to Razhaev, before his death, they invited Boris Erdneev to convert to Islam (Kalmyks are Buddhists). But he refused. That is, Erdneev repeated the feat of Yevgeny Rodionov, who also refused to convert to Islam in May 1996, during the first Chechen war. He refused and his head was cut off.

It was here, in the forest near Bamut.

There, three more prisoners were killed with him

The feat of Evgeniy Rodionov received quite wide publicity; many churches in Russia have icons in his honor. The feat of Boris Erdneev is much less known.

Boris Erdneev at the oath

A photo from a stand about him at his home school in the village of Artezian in Kalmykia (270 km from the capital of the republic, Elista).

8. Polagaev Alexey.

He was the last to be killed. This was done personally by the gang leader Umar. Here he comes up to Alexey with a knife, rolls up his sleeves

The prisoner's hands are tied, and he is shell-shocked, so Umar has nothing to fear. He sits astride the prisoner and begins to cut

Why does the half-cut off head begin to swing up and down, so that it can barely hang on to the body?

Then he releases the victim. The soldier begins to roll on the ground in his death throes.

He soon bled to death. The militants shout in unison “Allahu Akbar!”

Alexey Polagaev, 19 years old, from the city of Kashira, Moscow region.

The only city guy out of six dead. The rest are from villages. The army in the Russian Federation is a workers' and peasants' army, they say correctly. People who don't have money go to serve.

As for the killer of Alexei, gang leader Umar Karpinsky, he did not appear in court. Didn't make it. He was killed in January 2000 when militants were leaving encirclement in Grozny.

9. Epilogue.

Russian-Chechen war 1999-2000. was in favor of preserving Chechnya and Dagestan as part of Russia. The militants wanted to separate them, and Tashkin, Lipatov, Kaufman, Paranin and others stood in their way. And they gave their lives. Officially, this was then called an operation to “establish constitutional order.”

17 years have passed since then. Long term. What's new with us? What about the independence of Chechnya and the constitutional order in Dagestan?

Everything is fine in Chechnya.

By the way, what's on his head? He wears a maroon beret, but the cockade is somehow strange. Where did he even get it?

After the victory over the militants in 2000, the dictatorship of the Kadyrov father and son was organized in Chechnya. You can read what this is in any history textbook in the section "Feudalism". The appanage prince has complete independence in his inheritance (ulus), but is in a vassal relationship with a superior prince. Namely:

A. Gives him a percentage of his income;
B. Fields his private army against his enemies when necessary.

This is what we are seeing in Chechnya.

Also, if you read the history textbook, it will be written there that the appanage system is unreliable, because of it it fell apart Kievan Rus, Arab Caliphate and many others. Everything is based on the personal loyalty of the vassal, and it is changeable. Today he is for some, tomorrow - for others.

It is clear that they will soon be passionately kissing in front of the camera...

But who will go to fight for the third time in Chechnya when Kadyrov’s despotism officially announces its secession from Russia? But this will happen on the second day, when Putin leaves and Kadyrov feels a threat to his power. In Moscow, he has a lot of “well-wishers” in the security forces. And he's hooked. A lot of things have accumulated there.

For example, this monkey:

Who will believe that Nemtsov was ordered to him by the driver of one of Kadyrov’s close associates for 5 million rubles? Himself personally, directly with your own money. And drivers earn good money in Chechnya.

Or this character:

He killed Colonel Budanov in 2011. Before that, I found out the address, followed for six months, got myself false documents to a different surname, so that later he could hide in Chechnya. And also a pistol and a stolen foreign car with the wrong license plates. Allegedly, he acted alone out of hatred for all Russian military personnel who killed his father in Chechnya in the 90s.

Who will believe this? Before that, he had lived in Moscow for 11 years, on a grand scale, wasting money, and suddenly he was stuck. Budanov was released in January 2009. He was convicted of war crimes, deprived of awards and titles and served 9 years of a 10-year sentence. However, already in February 2009, Kadyrov publicly threatened him, stating that:

“...His place is in prison for life. And this is not enough for him. But a life sentence will at least ease our suffering a little. We do not tolerate insults. If a decision is not made, the consequences will be bad.”

This is Kadyrov's Chechnya. What's in Dagestan? - Everything is fine there too. The Chechen militants were driven out of there in 1999. But with the local Wahhabis it turned out to be more difficult. They are still shooting and exploding. Otherwise, life in Dagestan goes on as usual: a mess, mafia clans, cutting subsidies. As elsewhere in the Russian Federation. Constitutional order, huh.

In interethnic relations, something has also changed in 17 years. With all due respect to the residents of the village of Tukhchar, who hid Tashkin’s soldiers and honor the memory of the dead, the general attitude towards Dagestanis in the country has become worse. A striking example: since 2012, conscription into the army has been stopped in Dagestan. They don’t call because they can’t cope with them. And it starts like this:

Or this:

These, by the way, are the defenders of the Motherland (who are). Polite people. And the one with a raised finger means “There is no god but Allah.” Favorite gesture of Islamists, incl. Wahhabis. They use it to express their superiority.

However, you can not only put Russians in cancer. You can sit on horseback:

Or you can put a live inscription on the parade ground. 05th region, i.e. Dagestan.

Interestingly, in most cases, finding participants in this chaos is not so difficult. They are not actually hiding. Here are photos of “horse riding” in 2012, posted on the Internet by a certain Ali Ragimov to the group “Dagi in the Army” on Odnoklassniki.

Now he lives calmly in St. Petersburg, respects Sharia law.

By the way, in his photo from the army there are chevrons with a lizard.

These are the Internal Troops, Ural District. The same BB guys who died in Tukhchar. I wonder if the guys he’s sitting on will go to defend Tukhchar next time? Or let Ali Ragimov do it himself somehow?

But the live inscription 05 DAG on the parade ground in military unit No. 42581 in Krasnoe Selo was posted by a certain Abdul Abdulkhalimov. He is now in Novorossiysk:

Together with Abdulkhalimov, a whole company of his Dagestani comrades frolicked in Krasnoe Selo.

Since 2012, the Abdulkhalimovs are no longer conscripted. The Russians do not want to serve in the same army with the Dagestanis, because... then they have to crawl around the barracks in front of the Caucasians. Moreover, both are citizens of the same state (for now), where the rights and responsibilities are the same for everyone. This is the constitutional order.

On the other hand, Dagestanis were not drafted into the army in 1941-45. (due to mass desertion). There were only small formations of volunteers. Dagestanis did not serve in the tsarist army either. There was one volunteer cavalry regiment, which in 1914 became part of the Caucasian Native Division. This "wild division" of the Highlanders in the First World War was actually no more than 7,000 people. So many volunteers were recruited. Of these, there are about 1000 Dagestanis. And that’s all for an army of 5 million. In both the Second and First World Wars, conscripts from Chechnya and Dagestan mostly stayed at home.

Why does this happen to the mountaineers, constantly, for more than 100 years and under any government? - And this not them army. AND not them state. They are kept there by force. Even if they want to live (and serve) in it, they do so by some of their own rules. That’s why funerals come to poor Krasnoyarsk and Alexandrovka cities. And apparently, they will continue to come.

Perhaps no one can now name the exact number of prisoners of war captured by militants during both Chechen campaigns - according to the joint group of federal forces, prisoners, missing persons and deserters during these two wars there were up to 2 thousand people. Human rights organizations cite other numbers, upwards.

Why were they captured?

The usual perception of prisoners in a war situation as deprived of the ability to resist (wounded, surrounded by superior enemy forces) is false in relation to the Chechen campaigns. In most cases, our servicemen were captured due to imprudence and inexperience: they went “on the run” for vodka or drugs, or lost their vigilance for another reason.

Boys who often fought in the First Chechen War did not have the slightest idea of ​​where they ended up, and did not know the mentality of bandits and their accomplices. They were not prepared for the multifaceted danger that awaited them at every corner. Not to mention the lack of combat experience - both in mountainous areas and in urban conditions. Many times in Chechnya, fighters were captured precisely because they were unprepared for combat in a specific situation.

Why were prisoners needed?

In practical terms, they were used for two purposes: redemption or exchange. For ransom, they were often purposefully captured - they caught or lured unwary soldiers - at checkpoints, in troop locations... Information about who and how much could pay for whom was quickly learned - there are Chechen diasporas in any major Russian city. As a rule, they demanded about 2 million non-denominated rubles per head (data from 1995).

The prisoners were resold to other gangs or to Chechens whose relatives were under investigation or imprisoned. This was a very widespread and highly profitable business - relatives of prisoners sold their apartments and cars, in general, everything that was valuable in order to free their sons. There were cases when mothers themselves were captured when they came to Chechnya to save captured children.

The commercial component almost always came to the fore - if the militants knew that a prisoner’s relatives could get a good deal for his rescue, they took advantage of it. Prisoners could be exchanged for the corpses of dead militants, especially if they were field commanders.

They say that during the First Chechen War it happened that the command of the Russian armed forces gave the militants an ultimatum: do not release the prisoners, we will wipe the village into dust. And this threat was effective - the captured servicemen were released.

Calls to surrender

The history of the Chechen war is a terrible mixture of various kinds of components and fatal circumstances. And one of the main ones was betrayal - first of all, of the military personnel themselves, who were often thoughtlessly sent to the slaughter. Representatives of many organizations operated in Chechnya, each of which pursued its own interests. Captured Russian servicemen have more than once become bargaining chips in this game.

During the New Year's assault on Grozny (1994–1995), the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation, Sergei Kovalev, persuaded the fighters to surrender. General G. Troshev and the deputy battalion commander of the 131st motorized rifle brigade, Alexander Petrenko, later noted in their memoirs what “guaranteed” “benefits” went to those captured in this battle - the prisoners were brutally tortured and killed.

Torture and torment

In most cases, according to the recollections of surviving captives, they were treated worse than the most careless peasant with his livestock - they were fed terribly, constantly mocked and beaten. Execution of prisoners in such mountain death camps was common. Many died from hunger and torture. There are a large number of videos posted on the Internet about what militants did to captured military personnel. Even a person with a strong psyche will not be able to watch all this without shuddering.

Horrible stories about war, about its terrible everyday manifestations, appear in society in influxes, as if by order. The war in Chechnya has long been taken for granted.

The gap between well-fed Moscow and the mountains where blood is shed is not just great. She's huge. There is no need to say anything about the West at all. Foreigners who come to Russia, as if to another planet, are far from reality, like aliens from Earth.

Nobody really remembers the thousands of Russian-speaking residents of Chechnya who have disappeared into obscurity since the early 90s. Entire villages were uprooted overnight and went to the Stavropol region. The fugitives were still lucky. Lawlessness was happening in the North Caucasus. Violence, murder and cruel torture became the norm under Dudayev. The predecessors of the paranoid president of Ichkeria did not influence the situation. Why? They just couldn't and didn't want to. Cruelty, unbridled and wild, spilled out into the first Chechen campaign in the form of mass abuse of captured Russian soldiers and officers. Nothing new has happened in the current campaign - the militants (by the way, it’s quite strange that ordinary criminal bandits began to be called that way) are still cutting, raping and showing cut-out body parts of military personnel in front of cameras.

Where did this cruelty come from in the Caucasus? According to one version, the example for the Chechen militants was set by the mujahideen called up from Afghanistan, who managed to practice during the war in their homeland. It was in Afghanistan with prisoners Soviet soldiers they did something unimaginable: they took scalps, ripped open their stomachs and stuffed scatterings of shell casings into them, placed their heads on the roads, and mined the dead. Natural cruelty, which the British explained as barbarism and ignorance back in the last century, provoked a response. But the Soviet military was far from being inventive in torturing wild Mujahideen.

But it's not that simple. Even during the period of resettlement of Chechens to Kazakhstan and Siberia, terrible rumors circulated throughout the Caucasus about the bloodthirstiness of the abreks who had gone to the mountains. A witness to the resettlement, Anatoly Pristavkin, wrote an entire book, “A Golden Cloud Spent the Night”... Revenge and blood, passed down from generation to generation, were what dominated in Chechnya.

Prolonged fighting in Chechnya led to inexplicable cruelty, killings for the sake of killing. And here the “palm of championship” is not lost from the hands of the “partisans” and “rebels”, both local and newcomers. During the capture of the Dudayev Palace in Grozny in 1995, officers from the Marine Corps units said that they saw the crucified and beheaded corpses of our soldiers in the windows of the palace. Four years ago, as if ashamed and not saying anything, late in the evening one of the television programs showed a story about military doctors in liberated Grozny. A tired medical officer, pointing to the bodies of former captive soldiers, spoke about the terrible things. Russian boys, who according to the constitution became soldiers, were raped in the moment of their death throes.

Soldier Yevgeny Rodionov's head was cut off only because he refused to remove his pectoral cross. I met the mother of a soldier looking for her son during the truce in September 1996 in Grozny. She searched for her son for months and met with almost all the field commanders. The militants simply lied to the woman and did not even show her the grave... The details of the soldier’s death were learned much later. According to the latest data, Russian Orthodox Church preparing for the canonization of Yevgeny Rodionov.

Last September in Dagestan, in the village of Tukhchar, local Chechens handed over five soldiers and one officer to the militants who were trying to get out of encirclement. The Wahhabis executed all six by cutting their throats. The blood of the prisoners was poured into a glass jar.

While storming Grozny last December, our military again encountered barbarity. During the fighting in the suburbs of the Chechen capital Pervomaiskaya, the bodies of three soldiers from one of the units of the Ministry of Defense were crucified on an oil rig. Directly in Grozny, one of the units of the Sofrinsky brigade of internal troops found itself cut off from the main forces. Four soldiers were considered missing. Their headless bodies were found in one of the wells.

A Ytra correspondent who visited the Minutka Square area at the end of January became aware of the details of another execution. The militants captured a wounded soldier, gouged out his eyes, quartered his body and threw him in the street. A few days later, a reconnaissance group carried the body of a colleague out of the area of ​​high-rise buildings. There are many such examples. By the way, the facts of abuse of military personnel and executions for the most part remain unpunished. The case of the detention of field commander Temirbulatov, nicknamed “Tractor Driver,” who personally shot soldiers, can be considered an exception.

Some newspapers considered such examples to be fiction and propaganda. Russian side. Some journalists considered even information about snipers in the ranks of militants to be rumors, of which there is plenty in war. For example, in one of the issues of Novaya Gazeta they expertly discussed the “myths” associated with “white tights.” But the “myths” in reality turn into professional shootings of soldiers and officers.

The other day, one of the mercenaries, who fought in Chechnya on the side of the militants for six months, spoke to journalists. Jordanian Al-Hayat spoke about the morals that reign in the detachment of the field commander (Chechen, not Arab) Ruslan (Khamzat) Gelayev. Khattab’s fellow countryman admitted that he had more than once witnessed the executions of Russian captured soldiers. Thus, in Grozny, Gelayev’s militants cut out the heart of one of the prisoners. According to Al-Khayat, he miraculously managed to escape from the village of Komsomolskoye and surrendered to the military near Urus-Martan.

According to the Jordanian, mercenaries from Afghanistan, Turkey and Jordan remain under Khattab’s command. As you know, the Black Arab is considered one of the most bloodthirsty warlords. His signature is personal participation in the executions and torture of prisoners. According to the captured Jordanian, most of the Arabs in Khattab’s gangs came to Chechnya for the promised money. But the mercenaries, they say, are being deceived. True, in reality it turns out that both gullible and deceived Arabs practice atrocities against Russian soldiers. By the way, the contradictions between Chechen militants and mercenaries have recently become open. Both sides do not miss the opportunity to reproach each other for cruelty, although in reality both of them are not much different from each other.

When war becomes something like a hobby (and the vast majority of militants from the detachments of irreconcilable field commanders will never lay down their arms and will fight to the end), then the death of the enemy for a professional warrior becomes the only meaning of life. Butchers are fighting against Russian soldiers. What kind of amnesties can we talk about? Any “peaceful” initiatives coming from militants can be regarded as a way to continue the war and killings. For thousands of crimes, only a few have been answered so far. When will the majority respond? The life of those who pull the trigger is not worth a penny. Moreover, Russia should not forgive the bloodthirsty “commanders”. Otherwise, their successors will take the place of the murderers.

Utro.ru

Oleg Petrovsky

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This video is recommended for viewing by persons from the human rights society “Memorial”, in particular S.A. Kovalev, foreign citizens who are interested in the Chechen war, also to Western journalists covering the topic of the war in Chechnya.

02.11.2011. Found details on this case:

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 crime of bandits, which later became the starting point for investigators of 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 Basin, 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.