Vladimir Margiev, 62 years old, the fireman of the Russian peace-making battalion
23.03.2009 // 22:42

Vladimir Margiev, 62 years old, the fireman of the Russian peace-making battalion "Jugniy” disposition:

- I was on duty at night of August, 7. At the first volleys of the Georgian artillery, which choose as the target not uptown only, but also the position of a peace-making battalion, I had to take cover in the stokehole fire chamber, luckily it wasn`t nessesary to  heat in summertime. I spent there three day, hungry and without water and I became the witness of savage reprisal over Russians. After the Georgian armed forces were put to flight, I could return home. I turned black from a coal dust.

There are thousands histories connected with a genocide and ethnic purges in South Ossetia. For two days Georgia committed so many crimes, which were beyond the human comprehension, that its authority deserved to be in the prisoner's box of the international court for crimes against humanity. But a principle of "one's own bastard" works again when the behavioral model towards a concrete situation is coming into being.

Everybody knows who the real initiator of fighting was, who the aggressor was and who was under attack. But all the same it’s most likely that having a wish to save such a good full-fledged anti-Russian buffer on South Caucasus the West will continue “the restoration of defensibility of Georgia".

But it seems to be too late now, because Russia has seriously strengthened its positions not only in Transcaucasia, but also on the Northern Caucasus, and it’s impossible to shake them for the distant outlook.

The newspaper “SOUTH OSSETIA”

Translated by Tatiana Inozemtseva