“The war made good people even better, scoundrels even worse...” The author was one of the first to set foot on the soil of Afghanistan to fulfill his “international duty.” A strange war, not fully understandable to the common officer. Crippled destinies, cowardice and betrayal, courage and heroism, mercy and inhumanity... The truth of the trenches, which Gennady Sinelnikov witnessed, will never leave his memory. Those events cannot be hushed up, one cannot simply turn away from the bitter experience. The author debunks the myths of the Afghan war, but not with the zeal of a journalist, but with a harsh assessment of a Warrior who let every minute of that terrible decade pass through his heart...