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Sea Stories; Army Stories
Volume 42

Sea Stories; Army Stories
Volume 42
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Author(s): Alexander Pokrovsky, Alexander Terekhov
Language(s): English
ISBN: n/a
ISBN 13: 978-5-7172-0079-10
Published by Glas New Russian Writing
Published in 2007
Pages: 221
Download size: 0.77 MB
Price: € 12.00
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“The Russian army is now in shambles, a psychological wreck, a material ruin. Dedovshchina, the sadistic, often fatal, hazing of recruits, is ubiquitous: soldiers are routinely humiliated and tortured by their commanders, beaten with sticks, anything at hand. Every year thousands are wounded and hundreds are killed or commit suicide, thousands more go AWOL as a result of the abuse… For many officers life has been so leached of a sense of mission and pride that they destroy themselves with drink; their salaries are so low that they ease into a life of corruption, petty or grand.” – David Remnick, “Post-imperial Blues” (The New Yorker)
These near-documentary pieces by Alexander Pokrovsky and Alexander Terekhov provide vivid illustrations to the above observation. They have been only slightly fictionalized for the sake of readability. Pokrovsky and Terekhov both vouch for their complete veracity and insist that things have got even worse since the mid-1990s when they were first published. Cruel treatment, constant hunger, lack of sleep, and the general senselessness of army training are the recurrent themes of these stories (Terekhov is particularly explicit on the subject.)
   
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