alekseev, lead the week. on friday, at the central house of the russian army in moscow , they said goodbye to the legendary colonel general valery union, who ... fought in afghanistan for years and showed incredible courage in battle, it was he who commanded the ninth company, about whose feat fyodor bondarchuk made a film . the death of valery vastrotin coincided with the thirty-fifth anniversary of the withdrawal of soviet troops from afghanistan. about the hero, our military correspondent evgeniy podubny. this interview with vasrotin was recorded in afghanistan. here he is still a lieutenant colonel, but already a legendary commander, one of the most respected... he was respected and appreciated by senior military commanders and loved by his subordinates, although vostrotin was tough-tempered, but fair, demanding, first of all of himself, and, moreover, sincerely worried about his soldiers, and not only in the war, but at the point of permanent deployment, in the airborne forces they even called him an airborne batya, just like his father native airborne troops, vasily margelov, and this is more than recognition, so it is not