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Everything is valid - reasonable

December 21, 2005 Alexander Cherkasov

Last Sunday, the audience of Channel One was able to appreciate the Megablockbaster “Personal Room”, which went to the film distribution last year. The announcement was: "The fate of the personnel officer of the special forces Alexei Galkin (in the photo) , who passed all the circles of hell and managed to get out of the Chechen captivity, was based on the plot of the film." I'm afraid the audience reacted to this without proper confidence.


Well, in fact, the Islamic terrorists in the film act on the direction of the fugitive oligarch Pokrovsky, they receive a “dirty bomb” from Latvia by diplomatic mail, and the main terrorist leaves retaliation, being warned by its overseas patrons, and then his traces were found in the Pankisian Gorge of Georgia. What is called, "All at once!" - And it turned out to be too much.

But is it important? The plot is just a reason for creating a different reality. Unfortunately, the world of "personal number" is drawn very hackshore. Terrorists who have captured the circus do not know how to put up security and die one after another, like kittens, they are not similar! The "dirty bomb" was taken not so much from the hostile Latvia as from a terrible fairy tale - I do not believe! Hackers from the FSB do not even play plausibility. Well, for full “suckers”, on an armored personnel carrier, which is under constant video surveillance, imperceptibly and, presumably, inaudibly landed from the helicopter of the protagonist, Major Smolin. Invisible man? Inaccuations, obvious to a non -specialist and just an attentive viewer, are a mass.

The lone hero from Major Smolin does not work: there is no reliable emotional context, but there are borrowings from Hollywood superman Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger. But the American single hero is absolutely unreliable in the interior of the Russian “Operational Headquarters”. Who will give him hero there?

And it is likely that the phrase “The plot of the film is based on real events” the viewer will not take seriously. And in vain. The main character really has a prototype-you can read the transcript of the “press conference”, where he “admits” how “exploded Russia” and find out how it really was .
In November 1999, the head of the Ichkeria counterintelligence, Abu Movsaev, introduced to reporters a prisoner officer who said: committed terrorist attacks, explosions, and in Chechnya and beyond. These “confessions” were obtained by “unreasonable methods”. A few months later, the officer managed to flee the captivity.

Was Alexei Galkin not a Major of the FSB, but a senior lieutenant of GRU. He was seized on October 4, 1999, along with Senior Lieutenant Vladimir Pakhomov and Colonel Zariko Ivanov by idiotic accident, and not "during a special operation in the Naursky district." In November, before the television cameras, Galkin, with a stopped face, told Abu Movsaev, the chef of the Chechen counterintelligence, as his group made explosions in Chechnya and Russia - in particular, in Buinaksk. He also called the orders, including the head of the main reconnaissance of Krebelnikov, but most of all this resembled the testimony of the Trotsky-Bukharin people in large Stalinist processes.

The testimony was received, using not the “drug of truth”, but torture: hunger, thirst, darkness, isolation, beating ... And even under Galkin, they cut off their heads to two soldiers, shot it on the video and showed many times for persuasiveness. Before the press conference itself, Movsaev fed the starving Alexei and said: “Now the journalists will come, you know what to answer. But you think before saying something, because you have a family, your comrade is not far here. ” So the Stalin’s executioners acted - so they are now interrogated during the “counter -terrorist operation”.

The escape of Galkin was also not like in a movie. It was like. First, Galkin and Pakhomov were used as “mine trawl” when leaving Grozny in late January 2000. True, the film will not be shot about this, because the federal command was late to pursue them. The generals of Kazan and shamans even announced their own initial failure by the tricky operation “Hunting for Wolves”. The fugitives spent a month in the mountains and met the second time near Ulus-Kle. They were led by one of the detachments under the command of Hattab and breaking through the sixth company of the Pskov paratroopers. The company was almost completely destroyed, and since then we were often repeated: they died, but did not miss the enemy. “At night, Vladimir and I left the path and took refuge in the funnel. When we went in the opposite direction, the sun was already high. We needed warm things, products, weapons. We gathered all this from the dead militants who did not have time to bury their own. We met a group of militants, we opened fire, I was wounded, shot both hands. On the second or third day, we noticed a fire and traces of our soldiers ... ”The film“ Thunderstorm Gate ”will soon show us about this, where the paratroopers will stop the enemy at the cost of their own lives, and the field commander of the militants, depicting Huttab, will be killed. In fact, the two thousandth column of Hattaba with a battle passed through the positions of paratroopers, having lost about four hundred militants. The rest were dissolved in a mountain-laziness area, and Hattaba was killed only in April 2002. The cinema will not be shot about this ...

Here, in fact, is all the real events on which the film “Personal number” is based.

And the rest is a beautiful screen victory over the enemy, which has accepted reality. The assault on the circus is beautifully removed: real special forces - and no one died from gas. Beautifully shot villains Arabs, who were not in Nord-Ost. The Ansar Allah base in Qatar is also destroyed beautifully, and not as Yandarbiev. It turns out a fairy tale, much less terrible than our reality. Invented and rewritten reality that they believe in. The world, where everyone had long won for a long time, would have won completely, if not for ... Then - a list of fictional enemies. In this world, according to Hegel, everything reasonable is actually embodied. However, this beautiful picture is created not out of love for art, but with a completely practical purpose: to justify all crimes - and already committed and future.
Author - Member of the Board of the Society "Memorial"

Alexander Cherkasov

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