"STS TV Station" "Matilda TV Station" "Present 1988." "The Afghan war had been going for 9 years." "Krasnoyarsk, Siberia." "Year 1988." "Day 1" "Don't cry, please." "Just two years, only two years." " Chugainov!" " Here." "Now go." " Is Rjabokon here?" " He's being carried!" "The enemy won't get through." "Mama!" "Time to say goodbye." "This is for you." "Brothers, the frontier is locked up and the key is in my pocket." "Put all the bags here." "Beer, vodka, moonshine - onto the table." "Was she your girlfriend?" "Did you get her on it one last time?" "What?" "Didn't she give?" "Don't worry." "It'll be all right." "There are plenty of normal boys around, they'll get her." " What's this?" " Paints." "What are you going to paint there?" "A tank's wheel?" "Have you brought an easel, painter?" "Dzhokonda." "Next." "You think she'll wait?" "You write her letters with your snivel while they'll shoot her from two barrels." "Get lost." "What have I done to you?" "He's found his voice!" "So hit me!" "Come on." "Come on." "Shithead." "Relax, sonny." "I'll make a soldier out of you yet." "Do you know the army number 1 rule?" ""A soldier should bravely face the hardship of Army life"" "Why are you wearing the suit?" "You think the service is a holiday?" "I have nothing else." "Let's do a swap." "I'll give you mine and throw in some cigarettes." "You won't need it while I go to the town." "Disco, girls... understand?" "Hey, you did well." "Don't say it." "My service is like a dream you do not want to wake up from." "What do you say, a deal?" "Of course." " Take the sheet off." " Of course." "You say, a beautiful dream?" "What are you doing?" "Stop, I say stop." "Relax, sonny." " Let go!" " What was it about facing hardship?" "Let go of me." "Remember?" "Remember?" "Finish it yourself." "Guys, is this the 6th unit?" "Where the hell are you going, Rambo." "Piss off." " Relax, Chugun." " What?" "Nothing." "What's you name?" "Volodja Vorobjev." "Lutayev Oleg, Livid for short." " This is Ruslan." " Volodja." " Dzhokonda!" "Stas, Grey" " Hi." "I am Grey" " Volodja" "Rjaba, Chugun, that's it so far." "Move it." "Sit down, Sparrow" "Go on, Rjaba" "So I wake up in the morning" "Head is all over the place" "Unstuck my eyes with my fingers." "Looked up..." "Where am I?" "How I got here?" "God knows." "A girl sitting there smiling, naked." "Her daddy is standing over me like over a coffin." "Says, you're in trouble lad." "The girl isn't 18 yet, so choose..." "Either you marry her or I go to police" "She covered her tits with a blanket, eyes down, like a good girl." "And didn't she look ugly!" "Like a bull-dog." "But I say "no, daddy"" "I would rather lie under a tank than on top of her." "Then we had a race." "Who's first, me over here or he to the police station." "I got married yesterday." "The wedding and good-byes together." "Congratulations!" "She said, now I am yours." "Come on, you have a wife now" "She thinks I am a fool." "I'll be away for 2 years." "She cried all night." "A wife and I didn't touch her." "But I said, when I'm back, I'll check." "If, God forbids.." "I'll kill the bitch." "I just left her like this." "That's him." "It's him." "Wearing a suit." "Who are you waving your hands at?" "Quiet, quiet." "Have a rest." "I'll shave you bald myself in a moment." "These are the Afghan units, dickhead." "Get over here, bastard." "9th Company" "Fergana, Uzbekistan." "Day 3" "Where are you from?" "From Groznyj." "Where from?" "Groznyj" "From Groznyj, then you'll be Pinochet." " What?" " Pinochet?" "Why on earth Pinochet?" "I don't know." "Why not?" "Ours?" "What a mug." "Where are you from, clowns?" "From Siberia, Sir." "I am Senior Warrant Officer Djagolo." "What?" "Someone's deaf?" "Get up!" "All stand up!" "On the run!" "Fall into line!" "Fast!" "Put the hat on when in line!" "Right dress!" "Attention!" "Nobody's blind here?" "This mountain is ours, ... the one beyond it is Afghanistan." "So that the ones that are sent there don't snuff it the same day..." "I'll drill you for 3 months non-stop, 24 hours a day." "Starting now." "Any questions?" "No questions." "Turn right." "Follow me to our camp." "Run." "When ordered to run bend your arms." "March!" " Surname?" " Private Rjabokon." " Surname?" " Private Chugainov" "A belt is not for holding up balls, soldier." " Surname?" " Private Bekbulatov." "Private Stasenko." "Private Petrovskij." "Your are the painter?" "Yes, Warrant Officer Class 1." "So what are you doing here, sonny?" "Should have stayed home... and draw naked chicks and flowers in a pot." "You know, Senoir Warrant Officer, according to the teaching of Dr. Freud, ... any art is just a sublimation of one's subconscious instincts." "Including the instinct of violence." "But you may disagree with this as Soviet science doesn't recognize the bourgeois theories of Dr. Freud." "Clever?" "Sorry, Senior Warrant Officer I'll learn better with your guidance." "Rule number 1" "Commandos should always be ready for a sudden attack." "Very good." "Name." "Private Lutayev" "Rule number 2" "Smarter than a Warrant Officer can be only a Senior Warrant Officer." "Forget who you were and all you used to know." "Remember, clowns, you are not good or bad here, neither bright or stupid or artists, you are nobody." "You are not even human here." "Here you are shit." "I'll be making humans from you." "With these very hands." "Clear?" "Yes, Sir." "I did not hear you" "Yes, Sir." " Louder!" " Yes, Sir!" "Full load for everybody." "But the first section is running lightly equipped." "Run around a bush with your girlfriend lightly equipped." "The more ammo you take the better chance you nave to come back alive." "The goal is: dislodge the enemy." "Take the high ground, hold it, then report back to me." "Senior Warrant Officer, the second section is ready to go" "Fall in!" "Forward run." "Forward." "The aim of the exercise was not achieved." "You are all dead." "You, you and you." "You are Load #200 in "the Black Tulip"." "A piece of shit in a zinc coffin." "The troops going there will be met by an ambush." "Do you know what one machine-gun can do from high ground?" "Do you?" "Stand up!" "All dead men, put your helmets on." "Run, down!" "I say run." "Run!" "I wish we were going to Afghan sooner." "Sparrow." "What do you want?" "Could you carry my dick to piss, I am too tired." "He can't, he'll strain himself." "Look." "Snow White!" "Come over here." "Snow White." "Come over here." "Come here." "Come over here." "Don't be afraid." "Now it will stand till tomorrow." "Who's she?" "Have you dropped from the moon?" "She is Snow White, the nurse's daughter." "All drafts have gone through her." "She's shagged half of Afghan." "Said to be a real plague, not you shagging her, but she is shagging you" "There's such a disease, just like her." "Get off, scholar." "Can you talk it over with her?" "What's there to talk about?" "She never fails to engage just like a Kalashnikov." "Come and get it." "Only you have to get her through two sentries." "No, guys, it's empty talk." "The other draft did it just before the flight out, one can't be sent further than Afghan." "But we are here for another three months." "We'll get into trouble." "Listen, Livid." "Would you really go with such a slut after 40 men?" " Wouldn't you?" " Not me" "I'd rather starve to death than eat from a rubbish bin" "Is that right?" "Then I did eat." "Gobbled!" "Have you ever been so hungry that you couldn't sleep?" "What are you staring at?" "Our dinner was three spoons of gruel then we'd go to town searching  looking at you courting your girl behind a glass window  waiting to grab any food left on a plate." "Understand?" "And the sluts I had were all like this and always will be." "Guys, don't." "Shut up you Sparrow, have a sniff of a woman first then talk." "Quiet, quiet." "What quiet?" "Don't touch me and I won't touch you." "Eating from rubbish bin..." "It may be better than all your fancy chicks." "You bastard, say one more word, you'll be eating dirt." "Understand?" "Who is a Soviet Commando?" "A Soviet Commando is the pride and strength of the Soviet Military Force." "Who is a Soviet Commando?" "He's an example to follow and the envy of all geezers in civvies." "And who the hell are you?" "We are the shame of the regiment and of you personally." "Listen." "Listen, he is an idiot." "It's all right but I just can't understand." "Why the first section is always in front, lightly equipped and having an hour for a smoke while we are straining ourselves stiff." "Of course they can throw us off." "We should do it in turns, once for them, then us." "Well, because they have a normal WO." "While we have Djagolo." "Meaning - idiot." "Trying to be smart, bastard?" "No, he was knocked badly..." "In the head." "His platoon was all killed in Afghan, he was the only one left." "So he was sent here." "He writes letters to the Ministry asking to be sent back." "Who wants him there sick in the head?" "That's why he's mad." "Anyway, guys, we've copped it hard" "Company, get up!" "Uniform #4." "Fall in line!" "Fall in line" "Why are we moving like pregnant girls?" "10!" "What's the delay?" "You are not soldiers but pregnant cockroaches!" "15!" "Is it too hard, girls?" "Petticoats getting in the way?" "Why is there a queue?" "Company, dismiss!" "Second platoon, dismiss" "Faster, help the sissies" "Company, get up!" "Second platoon, get up!" "So what are we going to do, soldier?" "Go back, clowns." "Pick up Chugainov" "Run" "Forward!" "Run!" "Second platoon, dismiss" "Lower." "Get your ass down." "Company, get up!" "Second platoon, get up" "Lower your head" "A head too high is a gift for a sniper" "Your mother is reading a death letter" "Faster, I said." "Faster!" "15" "Company, dismiss" "Turn around" "This is a no-no, soldier." "After hours come to my office." "Company, get up." "Don't slow down, run!" "Hold up your weapon" "Faster!" "Second platoon, come back!" "Run back!" "Lutayev, Rjabokon, pick up the soldier" "Remember once and for all, Commandos don't leave their own behind" "Forward, I said forward!" "Run!" "10 minutes break" "Here" "Shithead" "Hey, Sparrow, do we have to carry you every time now?" "Don't we have enough shit of our own?" "Well, kill me then, come on, kill me" "Get lost" "I can't stand it anymore" "Then fuck off." "The parade is on tomorrow, come out and say it." "I will, so you are looking down at me?" "I don't care." "At least Olya is waiting for me at home." "So there!" "Tomorrow I'm out too, guys." "I got a letter from my mother, some time ago." "She is sick." "If I get killed she has no one" "I wouldn't quit alone." "Ok, guys, anyone else?" "Blokes from the previous draft said" "In Afghan you fight for a week then rest at the base for two weeks" "And here with Djagolo we won't last long enough to get to the war." "One would snuff it before that" "So what do you say?" "Sparrow, do we have a deal?" "We leave together, ok?" "Eyes, right dress!" "Attention!" "Eyes front!" "Comrade Colonel, the regimant is on parade!" "Good morning, Commandos!" "Good morning, Comrade Colonel!" "At ease" "Every one of you has volunteered to serve in Afghanistan." "I have to ask you, if anybody has changed his mind?" "I won't ask why" "Your will just continue your service in other units around the country" "Who doesn't want to go to Afghanistan?" "Thank you for your service." "Serving the Soviet Union!" "Harder!" "Faster!" "It's not a girl but a metal gun" "Kill!" "Never fear, kill him!" "You'll have a chance for only one blow to save your ass" "Break his ribs" "Give it here, sonny" "Like this" "Right, kill him" "Here, soldier, kill him" "Kill" " Vorobjev" " Yes" " Come here" " Yes, Sir" "Stasenko" "Come, take your weapons, put them down" "Faster" "Soldiers" "Take everything away" "Beat him, punch him on the face" "You are going to war, sonny, come on!" "You pat your girl like that" "Punch his face" "Total contact, both of you!" "Faster!" "Punch him first, Vorobjev!" "Go Sparrow" "Never fear" "Hit you first" "Come on, Sparrow" "Get up" "Finish him, Stas" "Go on, kill him while he's down." "Only dead men don't shoot you in the back, got it?" "Sorry, Sparrow, forgive me" "Sparrow, well done" "Let's continue" "Looks like plastacine" "Everybody have a feel" "Touch it, feel it" "Easily moulded, isn't it?" "It can take any shape" "Like a child's toy" "Everybody had one at home" "Anyone can do anything with it, a squirrel, a rabbit" "However, you are holding in you hands ... a powerful and effective weapon" "A plastic explosive material..." "Plastid, in short." "It has a specific chemical formula which you don't have to know" "This plastid is an indispensable thing" "So every commando must have it in his ammunition" "But why?" "First, when not charged  it's absolutely safe and easy to store ... always at hand." "It doesn't feel a heavy load" "However, when at war  it is exceptionally efficient  has a great potential." "However, you need certain skills to use it" "That is" "Two simple rules." "Number one:" "The more you squeeze it, the stronger the explosion." "Rule number two, don't stick it up indiscriminately!" "However, this thing won't work by itself" "For it to explode, you need what?" "A detonator" "Exactly" "You need to insert a detonator" "You surname?" "Private Petrovskij" "I'll have to report you to your superior" "Come in" "Warrant Officer Class 1, Private Petrovskij..." "Come in" "Well done, just like a real one." "Can you paint?" "I learned drawing" "Can you do a portrait?" "Ok" "See here, there is a girl..." "We met before war" "She wants my photo" "I can't send her this." "Can you do it without this, a bit more handsome?" "Yes, but it'll be some time with paint" "I'll need a few goes." "Of course I won't go to see her after the war" "But let her just write letters" "Attention" "Go" "Tractor drivers..." "Here" "Look" "Wet himself!" "You can laugh, but my bunk is under Sparrow's" "Well, Birdie, do I have to sleep under an umbrella?" "I don't get it, soldier." "Did you see something?" "Nothing, Senior Warrant Officer" "And you?" "Nothing, Senior Warrant Officer" "Then tell me, I want to share your joy" "You can cover yourself in snivel, ... you can cry for your mama, ... you can wet yourself, but accomplish your mission." "Die, but do it." "He did." "Turn around." "March!" "Basic knowledge, to make sure you can communicate with locals ... you will get from this brochure" "But" "The main thing you have to remember when you cross the border ... that you are in a Muslim country" "Islam, it's not only a different faith," "It's another world which has its own laws" "A different attitude to life and to death." "A real Muslim isn't afraid to die fighting" "If he dies fighting infidels, that's us, ... he will go straight into paradise where he'll get everything ... he didn't have in this world." "Water, fruit of the gardens, ... well-endowed virgins" "The treatment of women in Islam is a separate topic" "The most important thing for a Muslim is his house, a Haram." "The word Harem originates from it." "Another meaning of this word - taboo." "To look at Muslim women" " Haram." "Everything about sex" " Haram" "To show a rude jest to a Muslim" " Haram, even the ones you are all used to." "Then you can get a bullet for this even from a peaceful Muslim" "On other hand, a Muslim never stains his own house with blood" "From the moment you enter their village, you are their guest" "To kill a guest, even an infidel" " Haram" "Remember, while you are inside a village, you are safe." "But after you cross the border of the village ... the very host that you had tea with five minutes ago ... may shoot you in the back." "Because it is an honour to kill an infidel." "It is a step on the way to heaven" "I'm telling this for you, soldier." "So, Afghanistan is a multinational country." "Over 20 nations live here." "Tajiks, Turkmens, Uzbeks" "Pushuns live near the border with Pakistan" "To the west there live Khazars, Mongoloids, ... settled here after the Mongolian hordes." "Actually, the word 'khazar' means a thousand in Turkish." "Aren't you interested in this, soldier?" "Comrade Captain, does it matter whom to kill?" "Never in known history  has anybody managed to capture Afghanistan." "Nobody ever did." "Platoon, stand up" "What are we doing in Afghanistan?" "We are fulfilling our international obligation  and help our Afghan brother to fight the imperialistic aggression." "Fire!" "Private Rjabokon, finished shooting!" "Private Chugainov, finished shooting!" "Right down" "Jerked the trigger" "Very dense, but too high." "Breath slowly" "That'll do" "Have you ever shot before?" "Never, Senior Warrant Officer!" "Purely professional." "Good distance judgment." "Over here." "Yes, Sir." "Give it to him." "Private Vorobjev" "Put down the gun and come here." "Yes, sir!" " Here." "Fix this up at the line." " Yes Sir." "Run!" "Oh, good boy, Dzhokonda!" "Wonderful!" "Listen, Dzhokonda, honestly, why did you come to Afghan?" "You could have stayed in HQ, draw in peace, they wanted you." "You won't understand" " Just explain it simply" " Simply?" "See the tank over there?" "Beautiful, isn't it?" "What power!" "And not a thing too much, not a line extra" "A weapon is the most beautiful thing humans built during their entire history" "So?" "There was an artist called Michelangelo during the Renaissance." "He was asked once how he worked." "He simply said, I take a stone and chip off all the unnecessary bits." "Got it?" "Beauty is something without unnecessary bits, without any rubbish." "In war, there is only life and death, nothing unnecessary." "War itself is beauty." "Listen, Dzhokonda, I don't get it." "Tell me, are you a fool, or kidding again?" "What is beautiful?" "When guts are wrapped around a tank's track?" "Decided to play at war because you were bored?" "I told you, you won't understand." "Get lost, jerk!" "Guys, mail" "Here, here." "Stasenko!" " What day is today?" " Wednesday." "The third!" "Sparrow!" "Lutayev!" "Suvorov!" "Rjabokon" " That's it" " What?" "Give it back." "The girls wanted me to go to a disco with them ... but I don't want to go without you because I love you!" "Give it back!" "Today, I met two cool lads..." "You bastard!" "Attention, soldiers!" "Stand at attention!" "It is a shame for a soldier!" "You two come to see me later." "Very good!" "Very good, man." "Stand at attention!" "Turn around!" "Forward!" "March!" "Listen, guys." "Listen good!" "March tidily." "Don't fall out." "There is a stone over there." "Sparrow, Stas and Rjaba, you guys get and hold them." "I don't care how, bite them if you want." "Pinochet, Chugun, Dzhokonda, come with me." "Come on guys" "Forward!" "Company, get up!" "Get up I said!" "Come out, lie down!" "All lie down on the floor." "Crawl!" "Crawl, I said!" "Crawl fast!" "What?" "What did you say?" "I don't understand." "All stand up" "I don't get it who was talking?" "Come here, you!" "Do you want to tell me something?" "Tell me." "Tell me something" "Whisper, I ask you." "Everybody!" "Come on, one by one!" "No one will know this" "Is there anybody normal here ... or only sissies, er?" " A bad dream?" " Yeah!" "Dream." "Sick in his head!" "They say at the HQ he wrote a request again." "Wanted to go to Afghan with us." "He got the answer today" "Stand still." "Who is walking?" "Someone who wants is walking, someone who cannot is standing!" "Come on, quickly!" "Silent!" "Hold this." "Have you got a smoke?" "Singing again!" "Atta girl, comes like a machine gun." "Guys, what about Djagolo?" "Doesn't matter!" "Why?" "Because..." "Livid!" "I thought who was that with a big gun..." "Something left?" "Here" "I'll make it keep quiet for 18 months." "Let's have another smoke." "Ah, Sparrow, Birdie!" "You know how we smoked in the orphanage?" "Like gypsies, one cig for all." "Look" "Hey, guys, you are real..." "I love all of you, you don't know how good you are..." "Little Birdie had enough or we'll have to carry him again." "I'm going" "Listen, are you a man?" "Just tell me, are you a man or something?" "Don't, Oleg" " I already have Olya, you know she is..." " Ah, you can love your Olya." "We all have an Olya." "I have one too, ask anybody." "Everybody has an Olya, but remember who you were, Birdie?" "You are real man now, this is the one last test" "You need it, Bird, do you understand?" "We are not going to a health resort, this might be your last chance." "One shouldn't go to war a virgin, it's a man's job, see?" "Come on, Sparrow" "Maybe she wouldn't want me" " She likes you best from the whole draft" " You're kidding" "I'm telling you, the guys won't let me lie" "Really?" "She's seen you many times at the base, ... but you didn't pay any attention, she feels hurt." "No I can't do this, with everybody around..." "Have a drink, I'll be back" "Is he so special?" "Better than the others, I don't get it?" "Stop blabbering." "Sparrow, should I help you?" "Hold the legs?" "Sparrow, just go" "Commandos, prepare for action!" "If I don't come back, say that I died a glorious death" "Commandos, forward!" " Stas" " What?" "What's wrong?" "I'm missing home." "Give me a bit" "It's a bit scary, isn't it, guys?" "Honestly, without fibs" "Scary" "Not everybody dies..." "If at once it's not that scary." "To be injured badly is the worst" "I went to a hospital in Tashkent, there are some boys the whole ward, ... each taking just half a bed, all that's left" "We've got a guy at home that came back" "He is Ok, but he got a shell-splinter into the bladder" "He's got a tube from the stomach ... into a jar strapped to his leg." "They call him Brewer now" "So where is your Sparrow?" "Has he fallen asleep or reading books?" "Wait, I'll have a look" "You're all animals, understand, animals!" "Like animals no matter where or with whom" "I can't do this, you animals" "I just wanted to help" "What are you staring at?" "Has anyone ever told you that you are beautiful?" "Fallen in love?" "Then marry me and they'll come to visit us" "You should know." "You are very beautiful." "Are you a fool?" "An artist" "Aphrodite emerging from the sea..." "Aphrodite!" "Aphrodite emerging from the sea..." "The beautiful goddess!" "Let the water wash off all the sins!" "The eternally virginal harlot!" "Goddess!" "Pray all of you!" "Kneel down, you punks" "Guys, I love you" "Fall in line!" "At ease" "Try to..." "Turn left!" "Into the plane, on the run, march" "Baghram, Afghanistan Day 153" "Krasnoyarsk" "Anybody from Krasnoyarsk?" "Krasnoyarsk!" "I am" "You?" "Where from?" " From Kraz" " I am from Ershovka!" "Never fear" "Yes, Sir" "I'm leaving now, you will come later" "Here, this is for luck Take it I say" "Four months overtime, 28 times to the front and I'm fine" "Here, don't take it off, got it?" "Got it." "Bye mate!" "Just wear it, don't take it off" "When new recruits come from Yenisey, then give it to them." "Don't take it off!" "Yes, Sir" "What's your name?" "Oleg, what's yours?" "Kolya" "Look, guys" "Commander, from the right" " Mel'kumov" " Here" " Strojlov" " Here" " Rjabokon" " Here" " Vanifatjev" " Here" " Demchenko" " Here" " Bekbulatov" " Here" "To the 4th Company, follow me" "Bye, guys" "Take care, good luck" "See you guys, bye" "You bunch of drunks and narcos, you sex-maniacs - to the 9th Company." "Follow me" "Look at the wild beasts." "Go hang yourselves" "Right dress!" "Attention!" "Soldiers, welcome to the valiant 9th Company" "I don't get it, soldiers!" "Welcome to  the valiant 9th Company!" "Get lost, Khohol, go eff yourself" "I am Warrant Officer Pogrebnjak." "Forget who you were in the training camp" "No one's good or bad here, you are nobody at all" "Hey brothers, I've heard it somewhere before" "I'm going to faze you day and night to make soldiers out of you" "Got it?" "Yes, Warrant Officer" "What?" "Yes, Warrant Officer" "Good" "Private Chugainov" "Why is it so gnawed?" "This machine gun belonged to Private Samylin, he died valiantly" "He killed eight dushmans with it, got a decoration" "The gun is scratched a bit, he died of a grenade explosion" "No big deal, get some glue" "The barrel is crooked, how am I supposed to shoot?" "You've been honored, fool, it's a very special gun ... you should be proud, not complaining" "Soldier, sign here" "Turn left, march" " Who was your former commander?" " Senior Warrant Officer Djagolo" "Sashka." "I thought he was forced to retire." "He slept over there, ... gnashed his teeth all night, kept going into actions." "No one could sleep" "Then he was sent somewhere, to a hospital in Tashkent?" "He was a great guy, funny, laughed a lot" "He got ill with something, hey, medic" "It's called a contusion" "I thought you would say some clever word, fool" "Get lost" "Is Snow White still there?" "Snow White?" "There." "Hey artist" " Good likeness?" " More or less" "A guy did it from memory" "That Tomato son of a bitch gave him Samylin's old machine gun ... probably has written a new one off and sold it." "Does he trade in weapons?" "Some people find profit anywhere" "Is it true that we go into battle in three days?" "Not a battle but a field march." "We will take high ground over the road, and hold the line of defence, protect our troops moving." "Is that all?" "Yes, did you think this is Stalingrad?" "Forward, go!" "A monument of a bloke, I would've done him in bronze" " Kograman" " What?" "Ko-gra-man." "The dushmans call him that, means a vicious giant" "There is only one like him in Afghanistan" "He was supposed to get the Hero's Star three time by now, ... but he'd come back to the base and bash some HQ's face in when drunk." "They can' send him to the Tribunal but he missed his Star again." " Afanasij, who's that?" " The Greens." "Afghani army, the allies" "There is nothing worse than working with them" "If there's trouble they're the first to give" "You think you've got your flank defended while they are already 3 km behind you" "Once we were surrounded because of these pricks" "Where's the Dushman territory begin?" "Straight after the road block" "That's them" "We are all friends and brothers but at night they'll dig out a gun ...Allah Akbar, chop off your head" "So don't be in a hurry to fight, you'll get there" "You probably had a wager who'd kill the first Dushman?" "Of course" " What's the wager?" " A block of Marlborough" "I'll add another one" "Who was the first among you, Warrant Officer?" "Samylin, first to kill, first to go back in zinc." "All that could be found" "Road block in Anava Day 164" "Here they are." "Savages." "An outposted unit." "We'll leave some food here and then press on" " Are you keeping it?" " Of course" " And when it's big?" " I'll take it with me" " Are you going to eat it?" " I'm no Korean" " Will do?" " Will do." "Started fermenting?" "No, just got hot in the sun." "Massandra wine." "Let's get 5 litres for the guys" "So, lads, nice meeting you" "Listen, what do chicks wear nowadays?" "He's been in the army for 6 months" "Dresses, jeans..." "Listen, I know that it's not body armour." "What kind of dresses, tell me in detail" "The skirts like this in summer ... totally see through against the sun" "Sometimes you can see her legs like those of a weight-lifter" " Like this?" " No, longer" "The cut is quite wide, flapping around" "When it's windy everyone grabs her skirt" "What about Gorbachev, I've been listening to the radio," "Couldn't understand anything, what's this perestroika?" "What do people say?" "Would you shut up?" "!" "Can't you see I'm talking to people?" "Walking... skirts..." "This way - that way..." " Yeah?" " Yeah" " Just like this?" " Like this" "Bloody hell" "How long have you been sitting here?" " A year and a half - 15 months" "Listen, I can count without you, Khohol" "It would be good to eat shit with you, you won't let anyone else open his mouth" "Stop carrying on "Khohol, khohol" Who are you, a mountain goat?" "Got down from your mountain yesterday, saw a loo for the first time here." "If you get me I'll get you harder" "Hey, fellows" "Quiet!" "Let's drink to the demob" "It is 22:00 in Moscow, We start our request concert" "Come on men, let's go shooting" "Lower your head" " Hello" " Hello guys" " What's on?" "Are they coming?" " Yes" " How many?" " Five or six, can't see" "Over the Turtle about 30 m to the left of the Big Tooth" "Just below the Elephant" "Here they are" "Sit down nicely besides your radio." "I think it's five." "Ahmed" "Ahmed, is that you?" "Ashet, Salam Alejkum, dear friend" "Ahmed, you are still alive?" "Dirty bastard" "Homeless dog, shithead" "I'll start killing you soon" "Ashet, I cut your guts out, I strangle your throat" "I f@ked your mother, father, I f@ked your brother and sister" "Your f@ker isn't long enough" "Fire" "And now this is your favorite rhythm from AC/DC band, come on!" "They are leaving" "The request concert is finished, see you later" "Let's go guys" "Stand still" " Lesha?" " Volodja!" "Volodja." "Salam, Volodja" "Are you Ahmed?" "Ahmed, yes" "I is go soon, you don't wait" "Very soon" "Are you Tashkent?" "Dad, mum Tashkent?" " Krasnoyarsk, Siberia" " Too cold" "Have a girlfriend in Siberia?" "Love her?" " What's her name?" " Olya" " Olya?" "Pretty?" "Yes, very" "I have my beautiful Fatima" "I love her very much" " Fiancé?" " Yes." "Fiancé" "From the next village" "Fiancé, wife, love" "Volodja..." "I is going" "Very fast going" " Did you shoot?" " Where did he come from?" "Bloody Dushes, running around in the middle of the day" "This is Ahmed." "Hey Patephone, you are friends with him?" "Stinky barstard, let me see his face" "He killed three of our men, sonofabitch" " Your first?" " You can make a notch now" "This is yours, Sparrow" "Farewell, my dear friend, we'll never meet again" "But the memory of you will stay within our hearts" "Let's go, guys" "Stop" " Land!" " We're here!" "The train won't go any further please clear the carriages" "Rock" "Occupy the high ground, hold the line" "Calling #1, this is #9" "Calling #1, this is #9, seized the designated position" "Freeze, two steps back" "Are you strolling with a girl along a promenade?" "Look where you are going" "Can't you see, it's a petal" "The nastiest landmine" "Ours, the Dushes don't have them" "We sow them ourselves, get blown up ourselves." "If you step on one your foot is gone" "All stand back" "Host Province, High Ground 3234, Day 181" "Take the big one" "Get another rock from over there" "Pile it over here" "Come on" "Keep it there" "Movement on the right, fire into the canyon" "It's us." "Good day to you, Captain" "Look" " It's our Rjaba." " Guys, take the injured" "The outpost unit got killed, just one guy left alive" "Rjaba" "Unit 1" "This is unit 1" " Unit 2" " This is unit 2" " Unit 1" " Unit 1 good" " Unit 2" " Unit 2 good" "Sor..." "Sor..." " I..." "I didn't want to," " Calm down, Stas" "Nightmare?" "Stand up, rubbish" "You know how they do it?" "They come in here, right here and slaughter, slaughter 30 guys" "One by one, slaughter" "Like this Stas, ear to ear, like pigs" "Because of one dickhead like you sleeping on duty" "It's not a training camp, it's war." "You don't get bad marks, you get killed" "Take this bastard away" " Vorobjev, you take his place" " Yes, Sir" "Afanasij Kurbashi, follow me" "Host province, High Ground 3234 Day 210" " Oh, great" " Listen, will you draw one for me?" "Come on" "Dzhokonda!" " Khohol is calling you." " I'll finish when I come back" "Warrant Officer, Private Petrovskij accomplished the mission" "Here, this is the stick and this is a hat badge" "Stupid, give me money" " You are late by 2 minutes." "Got it?" " Yes" " I don't get it are you kidding me?" " Nobody has any, Warrant Officer." " This is all that's left." " Do you know when our troop leave?" "In a day or two, or in a week." "How long are we stuck here for?" "In an hour two packs must be here." "Got it?" " Where would I get them?" " I don't give a shit" " Find it, steal it, it's an order, got it?" " Yes, Sir" "Go" " Here" " Go on, stupid" "Stas have you got matches?" "Stand still!" "I said, stand still" "Stand still" " "don't speak Russian"" " Matches, got it?" "Matches?" "I'll give you this" "Tastes good, it is for you" "You give me matches" "No" "Haram" "No" "Go, go" "Come here, who allowed you to leave the position?" "Wanted to play a hero?" "Want to be a hero, Picasso?" "Three duty orders!" " Yes, three duty orders, Captain" " Ayvazovski, bloody hell" "Why so long?" "We're already coming out to attack, to smash the village to pieces" "Got them?" "Look, they are all wet." "Good boy." "The Motherland won't forget you." "Coming!" "How many are there?" "Dushes!" "Prepare for action!" "Fire!" "Company, prepare for action!" "Arrow!" "Arrow!" "This is Falcon" "Do you receive?" "Over" "Arrow, do you hear me?" "Over" "Don't" "No!" "There they are" "Kurbashi, cover for me" "Behind the rocks!" "Don't" "Stas, take the Captain with you" "Sparrow, Dzhokonda, Livid come with me" "Kurbashi, take him" "Let's go" "Guys, I go first" "Down!" "Sparrow, get down!" "Let's go" "Down!" "Stop" "Sparrow" "Where did you lose your gun?" "Let's go, they are in the village" "Khohol, your's in the middle, I come out from the right." "Got it" "Forward" "Chugun, Kurbashi to the house on the right" "Stas, Livid to the house in front" "Where is this?" "Stas" "Where did you get to?" "Stop!" "Stop!" "Let's go." "It hurts, of course it hurts, it is OK" "Khohol, let's go." "Grads should start working now." "Boy, what did you get into?" "There, there..." "Kurbashi!" "Here, Stas has been wounded, run!" "Come on, let's leave" "Stas, don't close your eyes" "Stas, how are you?" "Don't close your eyes, Stas, look at me" "Afghanistan Day 237" "Let's go" "Take it" "See what they are doing?" "Devils!" "Ok, let's go" "Don't you dare!" "Guys, down" "Crappers" "Our own would shoot one for a box of canned meat just before the demob" "You demob is as far away as China yet" " It's Kurbashi and I can start packing" " May be we shouldn't have, guys" "May be they were taking it to the outpost, to Ashot and Patephone" " Yeah, go and teach us." " Do you know who our Sparrow is?" " Tell us, Birdie" " Why not?" " I am at the Teachers' College, Philology." " Sparrow, our teacher." " What's so funny?" " Lucky, you aren't at my school" " Teachers were scared to go into our class" " How many males were at the College?" " Three" " And females?" "Fifty-two" " Have you courted them all?" " Stop it, guys" "He has his Olya" "I'll go and see what this Olya looks like?" "Wait, what do we have here?" "Sparrow will be like a woodpecker with his pointer at a blackboard" "Dzhokonda - it's clear" " Kurbashi will slaughter people" " No, I won't, I've had enough!" "I'll be a vet, you know, horses, sheep" "What about you, Khohol?" "What are you going to do after Afghan?" " Drink" " I see, drink for a week, then?" "Still drink" " And then?" " Still drink" "Until I forget all this" "Then I'll get up, wash my mug, ... and start a new life." "If I can." "Host Province, High Ground 3234." "New Year's Eve 1989." "Day 267." "Move it, Birdie, we've missed the Krasnoyarsk New Year already" "That's good, look at Vladivostok, boozed out since afternoon." " Hey, Chugun" " What" "I don't get it, did you nick the compote?" " Why nicked all at once?" " So where is it?" " Just forgot it." " Yeah!" " Wanted to gobble it up under a bed!" "Guys!" "Pinochet" " Hello" " Throw it here" " How did you get here?" " I was sent over" " Why?" "Broke one prick's tooth." "He said I was eating like a pig" "A pig is a filthy beast for a Muslim we kill for such words" "Let me." "Spiritus!" "Go ahead" "Let me do the introduction" "Afanasij, a very vicious man" "Kurbashi, medic" "This is Khohol" "Khohol for some, for the rest Warrant Officer" "Easy, Sergey." "He is one of us, from Djagalo." "Hello" "Well, guys, let's sit down" " Pour it out" " Guys, Gorbachev is talking already" "Let's say good-bye to the old year." "Cheers to the past year" "Let all bad things be left behind" "Pour out the second one straight away" "To our demob" "The demob year, guys" "Fill it!" "Guys, the third toast" "To our friends killed in action" "To Samylja, to Nikita Balashov, to Potap" " To Rjaba" " To Lysyj, to Kostjan" "In short, to all those who are not with us" "To Stas" "To Stas" "Commandos!" "Forward!" "Wake up!" "Or you'll turn into a goat." "Guys!" "Dushes!" "Company, prepare for action!" " Radio contact with Falcon, fast!" " Ammo, Chugun!" "We've copped it!" "They'll be fighting till the end" "Come over here!" " Any wounded?" " We have two" "Where's Dzhokonda?" " They are backing off" " Mortars!" "Down!" "Down" "Falcon, Falcon" "Where's the Captain?" "Sparrow" " Sparrow" " Here" "Go look for Captain, they are at the bottom there" "In the hollow, among the rocks - 150" "Fire!" "That's it guys, hit it!" "Bring the wounded here" " Captain's been killed" " Any officers alive?" "Anybody?" "Company, here is my order!" "Prepare for act..." " Coming!" " Get ready for action!" "Come to me" "They are running over!" "Centre!" "Centre!" "Don't let them!" "Won't work, nobody's there" "Save the rockets, may come useful yet." "They must come after all" "If we haven't contacted them for a day" "Sergey..." "Why are they shooting with sub-machine guns?" "Maybe they ran out of mortars" "But they've got plenty of grenade-launchers" "They are waiting for the transport don't want to use them on us" "For now" "Hey, come out, you may stay alive" "Wait a bit it won't take long" "Our people will be here soon" "The chopper will come and take you" "To Tashkent" "It's good, warm" "Nurses in white uniforms" " How long have we been sitting here?" " Three hours" "They'll start soon" "Get down" "Grenades" "Khohol!" "Kurbashi, here!" "Kurbashi, here!" "Sparrow, crawl over here." "Crawl over here, Sparrow" "Go, go." "Sparrow, crawl." "Sparrow!" " Is there anyone alive?" " I'm here!" "Guys, are there any Dushes?" " Not from this side" " Neither here" "Bastards" "Enough." "It's over." "Enough." "Are there any officers left?" " Anybody?" " Nobody." "On my command." "Count from that side" "First" "Second" "Third" "Fourth" "Fifth" "Sixth" "Seventh" "All go search for any remaining ammo." " I have two shots" " I have half a magazin" "Two grenades." "The end." "Not enough to beat them off once" "Getting busy" "They'll start now." "We've copped it." "Company, prepare for action" "Listen to my order." "Commandos..." "Forward." "Ours!" "Comrade Colonel, the 9th Company has fulfilled its duty" "The transport can proceed now." "There won't be any transport." "We are leaving." "Comrade Colonel, the high ground is ours, ... the transport can proceed" "Can you hear me, sonny?" "Why wasn't the radio working?" "Why was there no contact?" "Hear me?" "Afghanistan, Chaughani, 9 February 1989." "We were leaving Afghan." "We, the 9th Company have won our war" "We didn't know much then" "Didn't know that in 2 years the country we fought for would cease to exist." "It won't be cool to wear medals of a non-existant country." "Didn't know that WO1 Djagolo would stay in the army after 2 years ... and will be moved to Tula together with the training centre" "A year later he would die of a stroke in the middle of a night cross-country march" "Didn't know that Snow White with her mother and other Russian families ... would stay at the abandoned base near Afghan's border." "And then disappear" "As for us, the new life will scatter us ruthlessly" "Some to the top, others to the very bottom" "We knew nothing then" "We didn't even know that in the fluster of the great army leaving they simply forgot us, ... on that faraway high ground." "We were leaving Afghan" "The 9th Company" "We won" "The film is based on real events that took place on 8.01.1988 in Host Province at High Ground 3234." "Dedicated to my father"