That September night we sat up late with friends. It was necessary to disperse, but the weather was good, and farewell in the yard in Kuzminki stretched for another hour. At some point in our conversation interrupted by a deafening roar. The conversation was interrupted, and we even had an argument on the subject of, that could happen. Mobile Internet at that time was not, and quickly find out the truth it was not possible.
Saying goodbye to friends, I went to catch a taxi. Driver caught the car looked at me with wide eyes and asked,:
- Do not you know, what happened?
- And what is?
- Yes, a bunch of machines "emergency" somewhere in the direction of printers rushed!
I lived in the area of Lublin Ponds, just a few kilometers from the scene. And that night, I drew attention to the huge clubs either smoke, whether dust, stretching out.
Information channels on TV was not, and only one of the radio stations in the second hour of the night reported a "domestic gas explosion".
Horror in the capital
the, that really happened, it became clear in the morning. In just a few seconds before 9 September 1999 at the home 19 power bomb exploded on Guryanov Street in 350 kilograms of TNT. The explosion destroyed two entrances of the building, and also damaged the adjacent house number 17.
killing 106 human, about 700 wounded.
Printers - this is the usual sleeping area of the Soviet era. House on Guryanov street were inhabited by workers of the giant auto industry - AZLK plant, which by the end of the 1990s, virtually ceased to exist.
People, lived on Guryanov Street, We had nothing to do with politics. But the terrorists did not care. They needed many sacrifices and fear, paralyzing the will.
A few days before the explosion in Printers house was blown up in Buynaksk. 13 September 1999 of the year, when mourning for the victims has been declared in the country, explosion Kashirskoye. only a few have survived from the high-rise tenants odnopodezdnoy. killed more than 120 human.
Moscow shrouded fear. People came to the entrance on the night shift, in a panic call to the police about cars, have seemed suspicious, and about any person of Caucasian appearance, Transferring anything heavy.
From the street Guryanov to Beslan
The explosion on Guryanov Street, shocked not only Muscovites, but also the entire country, It marked the beginning of the bloodiest terrorist Five-Year Plan, the end of which was the Beslan.
These five years instead of a suicide attack at music festivals, explosions trains, blowing up planes, "Nord-Ost"…
The authors sought to sow terror attacks in people fear and uncertainty, make them feel insecure, to convince, that the government is unable to stop a bloody wave.
But there was something else. People have learned to live in a new environment. With a metal detector, alarm buttons, many limitations, which previously did not know anything. The Russians hated terrorism, but do not become enemies of their own state, how would the killer.
understanding, that their plan is not working, terrorists to raise rates, as if to ask: "And that you sustain? But it?»
Eventually we passed all. price, paid for ending the bloody bacchanalia, It was very high.
Today the authors of some of the films of Beslan and the "Nord-Ost" are trying to convince the audience - the inability of the state to negotiate with the invaders was the cause of the mass death of innocent people.
But the truth is, that neither the "Nord-Ost", nor Beslan, no explosion on Guryanov Street could not be, if different events unfolded in June 1995 year in Budyonnovsk.
Deal with the devil
14 June 1995 at about 200 militants gang of Shamil Basayev took Budyonnovsk, taking hostage around 1500 people and drive them to the territory of the local hospital.
The federal government was in a state of paralysis. One of the most infamous shots in modern Russian history, Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, pressed to his ear the phone, exclaims: "Shamil Basayev, Speak louder!»
Basayev a terrorist to dictate the terms of the Russian government headed, and he took them to perform. The Russian authorities have agreed to a cessation of hostilities in Chechnya and released terrorists from.
Basayev went from Budennovsk winner, leaving behind about 130 killed and more 400 wounded.
"But hundreds of lives have been saved, - declare those, who considers the actions Chernomyrdin 1995 reference year. - Because there is nothing more important than that ".
it seems, all right. If you do not think about, what happened next. Success in Budyonnovsk convinced the terrorists and their sponsors, that the pressure on the government method is effective. And if the government is still stubborn, it is only necessary to increase the number of deaths and the number of hostages.
For the weakness of the state paid viewers "Nord-Ost", children of Beslan, blow up the plane passengers.
The weakness of the government brings forth death
Shamil Basayev will only be destroyed through 11 years after the attack on Budyonnovsk. Eleven years it will cause death.
why those, who criticizes the government for wrong actions in Beslan, It does not say anything about those, who let Basayev alive 1995 year?
"There is nothing more precious than human life, and the right to life - the main thing ", - says one fashion blogger, remembering the Beslan.
But, negotiating with the terrorists and save the lives of some, power, who had gone to a deal, sentenced to death, others. The same innocent and defenseless.
"And you, would you like, to dead hostages in Budennovsk? - outraged some. - You can look them in the eye?»
And you can look into the eyes of children and adults in the street Guryanov, who for twenty years, look at us only with photos?
"Bloody terrorist Five-Year Plan", which occurred in Russia at the turn of the century, It was the result of terrible weakness of the Russian government of the 1990s. Authorities, which is famously know how to shoot their own parliament in Moscow from tanks, killing those, who resented flouting laws, overawed by heavily armed militants.
Nobody can guarantee us, that there will be new attempts of terrorist attacks. But do not let the power of God, after listening to the fashionable "seekers of truth", go back to the times, when with murderers, "speak louder".
The price of such calls is too high.
Andrew Sidorchik
