those who didn’t know didn’t know, everyone thought that valery sanovich, he was always such a bustarne knew that valery sanovich was always on horseback, so he, well, he behaved, let’s say, with heroic dignity. like a real commander. valery vastrotin ended up in afghanistan in 1979, stormed amin’s palace near kabul, was wounded, already the commander of the 345th separate guards parachute regiment, in 1986 he returned to afghanistan, the regiment included the famous ninth company, which fought for nameless heights 32 -34, 32-28. in january 1988 , the soldiers held the defense for 12 hours and repulsed attack. superior forces of the afghan mujahideen unblocked the road to the city and resumed supplying the soviet troops. vostrotin then became a real commander for his soldiers, whom they followed, without exaggeration , all their lives, and he was a mountain for the soldiers. every loss is a tragedy, so i was not afraid of any rash orders to report problems to the higher command, which was sometimes angry, but appreciated. when the regiment commander came to us, well, in fact , we real