let's ask alexander metla, director of the charitable foundation . but it was very easy to get into afghanistanhat time i was a major of the thirty-eighth air assault brigade, secretary of the party commission, i was ordered to arrive in afghanistan, that’s it, i packed a small suitcase and went to afghanistan, so began my service to a distant country, where that’s the most difficult, everything was difficult, difficult it was difficult to get used to the climate, it was difficult to get used to the characters, those carried by our soldiers, officers, and how many belarusians died on afghan soil? on afghan soil , officially, there are now 771 of them, they are all immortalized on the island of the courage of grief, 771 people, there are more. a completely different figure, i can’t even name it exactly, but the limit of our ranks, unfortunately, the main idea that we are trying to convey to young people is that defense of the homeland, defense is tantamount to defense of one’s family, one’s city, village, the only thing us what makes me happy is that, after all, the head of state , as he said, t