Smart thoughts come only when stupid things have already been done.
Only those who make absurd attempts will be able to achieve the impossible. Albert Einstein
Good friends good books and the sleeping conscience - here perfect life. Mark Twain
You can't go back in time and change your start, but you can start now and change your finish.
Upon closer examination, it generally becomes clear to me that those changes that seem to come with the passage of time are, in fact, no changes at all: only my view of things changes. (Franz Kafka)
And although the temptation is great to take two roads at once, you cannot play with both the devil and God with one deck of cards...
Appreciate those with whom you can be yourself.
Without masks, omissions and ambitions.
And take care of them, they were sent to you by fate.
After all, there are only a few of them in your life
For an affirmative answer, only one word is enough - “yes”. All other words are made up to say no. Don Aminado
Ask a person: “What is happiness?” and you will find out what he misses most.
If you want to understand life, then stop believing what they say and write, but observe and feel. Anton Chekhov
There is nothing more destructive and unbearable in the world than inaction and waiting.
Make your dreams come true, work on ideas. Those who used to laugh at you will begin to envy you.
Records are there to be broken.
You don't need to waste time, but invest in it.
The history of humanity is the history of a fairly small number of people who believed in themselves.
Pushed yourself to the brink? Don't you see any point in living anymore? This means that you are already close... Close to the decision to reach the bottom in order to push off from it and decide to be happy forever... So don’t be afraid of the bottom - use it...
If you are honest and frank, people will deceive you; still be honest and frank.
A person rarely succeeds in anything if his activity does not bring him joy. Dale Carnegie
If there is at least one flowering branch left in your soul, a singing bird will always sit on it. (Eastern wisdom)
One of the laws of life says that as soon as one door closes, another opens. But the trouble is that we look at the locked door and do not pay attention to the open one. Andre Gide
Don't judge a person until you talk to him personally because all you hear is rumors. Michael Jackson.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight with you, then you win. Mahatma Gandhi
Human life falls into two halves: during the first half they strive forward to the second, and during the second they strive back to the first.
If you don't do anything yourself, how can you help? You can only drive a moving vehicle
Everything will happen. Only when you decide to do it.
In this world you can look for everything except love and death... They themselves will find you when the time comes.
Inner satisfaction in spite of the surrounding world of suffering is a very valuable asset. Sridhar Maharaj
Start now to live the life you would like to see in the end. Marcus Aurelius
We must live every day as if it were the last moment. We don't have a rehearsal - we have life. We don't start it on Monday - we live today.
Every moment of life is another opportunity.
A year later, you will look at the world with different eyes, and even this tree that grows near your house will seem different to you.
You don't have to look for happiness - you have to be it. Osho
Almost every success story I know began with a person lying on his back, defeated by failure. Jim Rohn
Every long journey begins with one, the first step.
Nobody is better than you. Nobody is smarter than you. They just started earlier. Brian Tracy
The one who runs falls. He who crawls does not fall. Pliny the Elder
You just need to understand that you live in the future, and you will immediately find yourself there.
I choose to live rather than exist. James Alan Hetfield
When you appreciate what you have, and not live in search of ideals, then you will truly become happy..
Only those who are worse than us think badly of us, and those who are better than us simply have no time for us. Omar Khayyam
Sometimes we are separated from happiness by one call... One conversation... One confession...
By admitting his weakness, a person becomes strong. Onre Balzac
He who humbles his spirit, stronger than that who conquers cities.
When a chance comes, you have to grab it. And when you grabbed it, achieved success - enjoy it. Feel the joy. And let everyone around you suck your hose for being assholes when they didn’t give a penny for you. And then - leave. Beautiful. And leave everyone in shock.
Never despair. And if you have already fallen into despair, then continue to work in despair.
A decisive step forward is the result of a good kick from behind!
In Russia you have to be either famous or rich to be treated the way they treat anyone in Europe. Konstantin Raikin
It all depends on your attitude. (Chuck Norris)
No reasoning can show a person a path he does not want to see Romain Rolland
What you believe in becomes your world. Richard Matheson
It's good where we are not. We are no longer in the past, and that is why it seems beautiful. Anton Chekhov
The rich get richer because they learn to overcome financial difficulties. They see them as an opportunity to learn, grow, develop and become rich.
Everyone has their own hell - it doesn’t have to be fire and tar! Our hell is a wasted life! Where dreams lead
It doesn’t matter how hard you work, the main thing is the result.
Only mom has the kindest hands, the most tender smile and the most loving heart...
Winners in life always think in the spirit: I can, I want, I. Losers, on the other hand, focus their scattered thoughts on what they could have, could do, or what they cannot do. In other words, winners always take responsibility, while losers blame circumstances or other people for their failures. Denis Whately.
Life is a mountain, you go up slowly, you go down quickly. Guy de Maupassant
People are so afraid to take a step towards a new life that they are ready to close their eyes to everything that does not suit them. But this is even scarier: to wake up one day and realize that everything nearby is not the same, not the same, not the same... Bernard Shaw
Friendship and trust are not bought or sold.
Always, at every minute of your life, even when you are absolutely happy, have one attitude towards the people around you: - In any case, I will do what I want, with or without you.
In the world you can only choose between loneliness and vulgarity. Arthur Schopenhauer
You just have to look at things differently, and life will flow in a different direction.
The iron said this to the magnet: I hate you most of all because you attract without having enough strength to drag you along! Friedrich Nietzsche
Learn to live even when life becomes unbearable. N. Ostrovsky
The picture you see in your mind will eventually become your life.
“The first half of your life you ask yourself what you are capable of, but the second - who needs it?”
It's never too late to put new goal or find a new dream.
Control your destiny or someone else will.
see beauty in the ugly,
see the river floods in the streams...
who knows how to be happy in everyday life,
he really is happy man! E. Asadov
The sage was asked:
How many types of friendship are there?
Four, he answered.
Friends are like food - you need them every day.
Friends are like medicine; you look for them when you feel bad.
There are friends, like a disease, they themselves look for you.
But there are friends like air - you can’t see them, but they are always with you.
I will become the person I want to become - if I believe that I will become it. Gandhi
Open your heart and listen to what it dreams of. Follow your dreams, because only through those who are not ashamed of themselves will the glory of the Lord be revealed. Paulo Coelho
To be refuted is nothing to fear; One should be afraid of something else - being misunderstood. Immanuel Kant
Be realistic - demand the impossible! Che Guevara
Don't put off your plans if it's raining outside.
Don't give up on your dream if people don't believe in you.
Go against nature and people. You are a person. You are strong.
And remember - there are no unattainable goals - there is a high coefficient of laziness, a lack of ingenuity and a stock of excuses.
Either you create the world, or the world creates you. Jack Nicholson
I love it when people smile just like that. For example, you are riding on a bus and you see a person looking out the window or writing an SMS and smiling. It makes your soul feel so good. And I want to smile myself.
We present to your attention musical composition from the performer - Dushmans about our Country, called - Very words of wisdom... Insha Allah!. On this page you can not only read words or text of the song Dushmana about our Country - Very wise words... Insha Allah!, but also take advantage of the opportunity to listen online. In order to download Dushmans about our Country - Very wise words... Insha Allah! on your personal computer, click on the appropriate button located to the right of this text.
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Dushmana's words about our Country are very wise words... Insha Allah!
You think the whole world should obey you because you have atomic bomb? You are weak - you are even afraid own strength. In a few years we will also have an atomic bomb - then the world will change.
You have long departed from the covenants of even your Jesus. You allow your women to sell their bodies. You marry homosexuals and organize concerts in your temples.
Therefore we will defeat you. How you once defeated Rome.
The poor and hungry always defeat the well-fed and rich, if the hungry have faith and the well-fed do not.
We are fighting for our faith, and you are fighting for the gas in your gas tank.
Now we have weapons. And we are ready to die for Allah. We will defeat you..
Photographer Alexey Nikolaev is looking for ex-members in Afghanistan Soviet soldiers who converted to Islam and refused to return to the USSR.
Sergei (Nurmamad) Krasnoperov is 49 years old. A native of Kurgan, he served in Afghanistan for almost two years, but at the end of his term - in 1985 - he left the unit due to hazing, was captured by the Mujahideen, got married and after the withdrawal Soviet troops stayed to live in an unnamed village 20 kilometers from Chagcharan, the capital of the Ghor province. By local standards, Krasnoperov is a successful, wealthy man: he has two motorcycles and a car.
Sergey Krasnoperov. Registration card from the archives of the Committee for Internationalist Soldiers.
Sergei returns from Chagcharan to his village on a motorcycle.
Sergei Krasnoperov: “I was born in Kurgan. I still remember my home address: Bazhova Street, building 43. I ended up in Afghanistan, and at the end of my service, when I was 20 years old, I went to join the dushmans. He left because he did not get along with his colleagues. They all united there, I was completely alone - they insulted me, I could not answer. Although this is not even hazing, because all these guys were from the same draft with me. In general, I didn’t want to run away, I only wanted those who mocked me to be punished. But the commanders didn’t care. I didn’t even have a weapon, otherwise I would have killed them right away. But the spirits who were close to our unit accepted me.”
Lunch break in the team of assembly workers, which is also led by Sergei. His main place of work is a small local hydroelectric power station, where Krasnoperov is responsible for electrical engineering.
Sergei Krasnoperov: “True, they didn’t accept me right away - for about 20 days they locked me up in some small room, but it was not a prison, although there were guards at the door. They put on the shackles at night and took them off during the day - even if you find yourself in the gorge, you still won’t understand where to go next. Then the mujahideen commander arrived, who said that since I came myself, I could leave on my own, and I didn’t need shackles or guards. Although I would hardly have returned to the unit anyway - I think they would have shot me right away. Most likely, their commander tested me this way.”
Sergei’s team is installing a crushed stone production line in a stone quarry near Chagcharan.
Sergei Krasnoperov: “For the first three or four months I didn’t speak Afghan, but then gradually we began to understand each other. Mullahs constantly visited the Mujahideen, we began to communicate, and I realized that, in fact, there is only one God, just Jesus and Muhammad are messengers different faiths. I didn’t do anything with the Mujahideen - sometimes I helped with the repair of machine guns. Then I was assigned to a commander who fought with other tribes, but he was soon killed. I didn’t fight against Soviet soldiers - I just cleaned weapons, especially since the troops were withdrawn from the area where I was quite quickly.”
Sergey on his way home from work.
Sergei Krasnoperov: “The Mujahideen realized that if they marry me, then I myself will stay with them. And so it happened. I got married a year later, after that the supervision was completely removed from me; before, I wasn’t allowed anywhere alone. But I still didn’t do anything, I had to survive - I suffered several deadly diseases, I don’t even know which ones.”
Boy on the fence of a house, Chagcharan.
Women with shopping near the stone quarry where Sergei’s team is working.
Chagcharan is considered a troubled place. The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) base is located near the city, and helicopters constantly circle over it.
Sergey Krasnoperov with children
Sergei Krasnoperov: “I have six children. There were more, but many died. They are all blond, almost Slavic. However, the wife is the same. Now I collected the documents and took them to Kabul to get a passport. First I’ll get it, and then we’ll see - if there’s money, I’ll go (home - RP). My mother is already quite old, I call her sometimes, and once she even came. There was a brother, but he was killed in a drunken fight - he was pushed, and he hit his head on the asphalt. Here they avenge blood for blood, but in Russia there are no such laws.”
Sergei Krasnoperov: “After the Americans leave completely, it will be better. Ukrainians (soldiers from the ISAF-RP contingent) are helping me now, and there are also Georgians. The Lithuanians, however, don’t really like us... I consider myself Russian, but what was it like in the USSR before? Everyone is equal! And Americans believe that everyone except them is second class. Even blacks are better for them than Afghans. I wouldn’t wish anyone to be in my place.”
Sergey Krasnoperov: “I want to buy a plot in the town. I earn $1.2 thousand a month, they don’t pay fools here that kind of money. The governor and my boss promised to help me, I’m standing in line. The state price is small - a thousand dollars, but then you can sell it for six thousand. It’s beneficial if I still want to leave. As they say in Russia now, this is business.”
Hotel room in Chagcharan.
The village where Krasnoperov lives.
Bookstore in Chagcharan. There is no secular literature here.
Cutting a sheep carcass, Chagcharan.
Cooking kebab, Chagcharan.
Dining table at Krasnoperov’s house. According to local custom, bread is served first.
The road from to Chagcharan.
Krasnoperov and deputy police chief Chagcharan, who accompanied (at the head of a security detachment) the photographer on the way to the village where Sergei lives. It is not safe to travel alone in these areas.
Residents of the village came out of their houses to look at the visitors.
Hotel worker on the roof. Chagcharan.
Security provided to Alexey Nikolaev in Chagcharan.
View from the hotel window, Chagcharan.
The man on the roof of the store is a watchman: all establishments in the city are carefully guarded. Chagcharan
There is quite a lot of information about how to Afghan war 1979-1989 dushmans treated Soviet soldiers. But there is almost no information about the presence of Afghan militants in Soviet captivity. Why?
An eye for an eye...
For a long time, the heroic image of the Soviet internationalist warrior was promoted in our country. Much remained behind the scenes, and only in the post-perestroika years did individual grains of information about back side war in Afghanistan. Then the public learned about the former Soviet soldiers, who voluntarily went over to the side of the Mujahideen, and about the atrocities that the latter committed with our prisoners, and about the cruelty that our soldiers and officers showed towards the local population...
Thus, journalist A. Nureyev was once told about a paratrooper officer who personally shot seven captured dushmans. The journalist was shocked: how could this be, after all, there is a Geneva international convention on the treatment of prisoners of war, ratified by the USSR in 1954. It states: “Prisoners of war must always be treated humanely... Prisoners of war may not be subjected to physical violence... Prisoners of war equally must always enjoy protection, especially from any act of violence or intimidation, from insults and the curiosity of the crowd. The use of reprisals against them is prohibited..."
If at the very beginning of the war there were virtually no acts of violence against prisoners and Afghans by Soviet military personnel, then the situation changed dramatically. The reason for this was the numerous atrocities the Mujahideen committed against our military. Soviet soldiers who were captured were subjected to sophisticated torture, skinned alive, dismembered, as a result of which they died in terrible agony... And it very often happened that after their death, their comrades in the unit went to the nearest village and burned houses there, killed civilians, raped women... As they say, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth...
Torture and execution
As for the captured dushmans, they were often tortured. According to eyewitnesses, prisoners, for example, were suspended in a rubber loop from a barrel tank gun, so that your toes barely touch the ground. Also
They could drive needles under their nails, as the Nazis did during the Great Patriotic War. IN best case scenario the prisoners were simply severely beaten. The role of the executioner was usually performed by some ensign who had great physical strength.
In the summer of 1981, during a military raid in the Gardez area, a detachment of paratroopers captured six Mujahideen. The commander gave the order to transport them by helicopter to headquarters. But when the helicopter had already taken off, the brigade commander from headquarters sent a radiogram: “I have nothing to feed the prisoners!” The detachment commander contacted the officer accompanying the prisoners, and he decided... to release them. A small nuance: at that time the helicopter was at an altitude of 2000 meters and was not planning to land. That is, the dushmans were simply thrown down from a great height. And when the last of them left the cabin, a ramrod from a Makarov pistol was driven into his ear... By the way, the episode of throwing prisoners from a helicopter was far from isolated.
Such things did not always go unpunished. The press received information about how a military tribunal sentenced the deputy commander of a regiment stationed in the Ghazni region and one of the company commanders to to the highest degree punishment for the execution of twelve captured Mujahideen. The rest of the participants in the execution received impressive prison sentences.
Murder or exchange?
Former special forces soldiers say that they were generally not very keen on taking the Mujahideen prisoner, since there was a lot of “fuss and hassle” with them. Often the “spirits” were killed immediately. Basically they were treated like bandits and interrogated with partiality. They were usually kept in prisons, and not in military units.
There were, however, special camps for Afghan prisoners of war. The dushmans were treated more or less tolerably there, since they were being prepared for exchange for Soviet prisoners. The Mujahideen bargained, demanding that the exchange be not one to one, but, say, for one “shuravi” - six Afghans. As a rule, a consensus was eventually reached.
No matter how much we are called to humanism, war is war. At all times, the warring parties did not spare their opponents, tortured prisoners, killed women and children... And violence, as a rule, only begets violence... Events in Afghanistan once again proved this.
At the age of eighteen, traveler Alexey Kotelnikov wrote to the military registration and enlistment office to be sent to serve in Afghanistan. I really wanted to go there! But every time he was refused: “We don’t need heroes!” 16 years have passed since the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan, but Kotelnikov has not forgotten about his dream. Last year he finally visited this country and today he tells SK readers about his amazing journey.
— Most of all, I was afraid of an unfriendly attitude on the part of the Afghans - after all, they had been fighting with us for ten years. Nothing of the kind! They have great attitude to the Russians. For example, I was never allowed to spend the night in a tent. I deliberately took her with me, but every evening the Afghans dragged me to their home and provided me with dinner and lodging for the night. And every evening get-togethers! As soon as they find out that a foreigner has arrived, people gather from everywhere and start asking questions.
Many Afghans, especially in the north, speak Russian well. Some worked for Najibullah (former pro-Soviet president of Afghanistan - author's note), others studied in Russia.
They asked a lot of questions. The most painful topic for Afghans is how is it with women in Russia? Do Russian women really go without a burqa at all and are they really so affordable?
They talked about themselves. About how bad life was for them under the Taliban and how good it was under the Soviet Union. I was very surprised when I first heard the question: “Why did you leave? It was so good with you! Yes, there was a war, but at the same time there was almost free bread and gasoline, you provided cars, built roads and factories.” And the most interesting thing is that I heard this every day and from absolutely different people. It all boiled down to “how stupid we were when we fought with you.”
If a person is over 35 years old, he must have fought. Because the whole country was at war then, the only question was who was on whose side. And, as a rule, if there are 15 Afghans in the room with you, then ten of them fought on the side of the dushmans, and five on the side Soviet Union. They remember what kind of battles there were, showing each other their shot arms and legs. And all this is absolutely good-natured.
Later, when I was lying in an Afghan hospital, an outspoken dushman looked after me. I asked him:
- Why are you courting me? It’s written on your face that you fought against the Soviet troops!
“Of course,” he answers. - Three years. But we have this law: while the war is going on, rob and kill. The war is over - no one will lay a finger on the guest, everyone will only be happy to see him.
Traces of war
— When you drive through Afghanistan, there are pebbles along the roads - red and blue. For a long time I could not understand what they meant. It turned out that the red circle on the stone meant a minefield. In total, there are about 20 million mines left there, that is, one mine for every Afghan. They are, of course, gradually neutralized, but people and livestock continue to be blown up.
People
— If you go to Paris, you look at the Eiffel Tower and the Champs Elysees. And you go to Afghanistan to see people. You look at them with your mouth open - this is such an unprecedented flavor! Outwardly, Afghans are very dignified - they somewhat resemble eagles. Their movements are graceful and unhurried.
What is striking is that everyone is very young. Middle age Afghan population - 19 years old! In addition, they are very active and cheerful, so you get the feeling that you are in the land of youth. And there are only men everywhere. There are practically no women on the street.
In general, the further you go south, the fewer women there are. For example, in Moscow there are mostly women on the street. Somewhere in Dagestan they are sitting at home. But in Afghanistan the limit is already reached. 70% of people are men. All positions in this country, even exclusively female ones, are occupied by men. Men work in hairdressing salons, and in cafes too. Women stay at home and only occasionally go out for shopping. They wear only a burqa, and, interestingly, a blue one.
Guardianship of the special services
“The only thing that gets in the way is the local security services.” If they understand that you are a tourist, then frantic guardianship begins. Somehow I managed to fall into the clutches of the special services and then for a whole week I could not escape from them. Afghanistan has a strange curfew - from ten in the evening to one in the morning. And I had to catch the eye of the police at that very time. They don’t seem to detain me, but they don’t let me go either - under the pretext of ensuring my safety. After that, my trip began to look like this: I wake up in some military unit, there they begin to introduce me to everyone - from a sergeant to a general. Once I was even invited to the local governor. I waited for an audience for two hours, after which I was taken into a room that resembled an office Russian director plant The governor, a rather young man, was sitting in the office and his retinue was standing. Very colorful personalities - outwardly the spitting image of Bin Laden and Basayev.
After all the official introductions, I was taken on a tour, accompanied by guards with machine guns. And so we walked around the city for several hours, after which we returned to military unit and they took me to the border of the next district. Other police officers met me there, and everything started all over again. I managed to get rid of the special services only in the city of Herat.
— I expected that Afghans live poorer. As in many other countries, there is a very large gap between urban and rural areas. Outwardly, Afghan settlements look really poor: there are unsightly adobe houses all around - you even get the impression that no one lives there. But as soon as you go inside, you see a completely different picture: very clean courtyards, about fifteen kids running around. There are no problems with food - those who are richer set luxurious tables, like for a wedding.
The fact is that Afghans are a very hardworking nation. As soon as another war ends, they begin to work, build houses and roads.
Cars
— There’s a joke: if you’re tired of your old car, don’t rush to throw it away. Come to Afghanistan - they will gladly buy it for a thousand dollars. True, they will reconstruct it in the Afghan way. First of all, they will install the springs from the truck. They will tear off the trunk lid, because four people can fit there well standing up. Another trunk will be attached to the roof - this will provide four more passenger seats. Thus, Afghan craftsmen manage to make a twenty-seater car out of an old five-seater Volga! And it will serve them for who knows how many years. Afghans don't throw away cars - they constantly repair them, thanks to which the service life of their cars is literally endless. You won’t see any kind of cars there - even old domestic “Zaporozhets” and “disabled cars”.
At the same time - huge amount brand new jeeps. In general, SUVs are the most popular cars in Afghanistan. You simply cannot get there in a simple car. It is in vain that they say that Russia has the most bad roads— in Afghanistan they are incomparably worse. The traditional Afghan road is an ordinary track in the middle of a field. Sometimes only a UAZ and a KamAZ can drive along it.
Oleg KOPYLOV.
