by the way, vitaly bubenin, hero of the soviet union, participant in the soviet chinese armed clashesnsky island. it was a large, serious operation, much was written about it. by that time, several similar special units had already been created as part of the state security committee with similar functions, that is, zenit already existed, cascade already existed , vympel was already organized in 1981, these units had their own functions, we will talk about this later, today we are talking about the alpha group, the first group consisted of only 30 people, according to the colonel's recollections. the first recruitment of the alpha group of the 1978 draft was one of the best in the entire history of the group, this is according to the recollections of everyone who served then, because i read in the press, they say that this is so, no offense to those who serve today, they all claim that these first 30 people were, well, i'm not afraid to say, outstanding officers, the group was first used in 1976 in switzerland. alpha was supposed to do this: it covered operations on exchange of the le