Harsh and honest interview about "native" rifle SVD with a fourfold sight of the fallen sister, overcoming fear, the prospects of returning veterans careless in the rear. And why captured snipers die slowly and painfully.

Even among the colorful diversity of life histories of this war case of Alexander Mamaluy - special. Successful Kharkiv judge suddenly threw everything and fighting at the front. And at war's great - and not someone else and sniper 93 separate mechanized brigade.

Specific understanding that mamaluy - man extraordinary, comes when you read his Facebook. Talking to you people, valuing people and events on the front and rear. Knowledgeable and able to describe what he saw in the bright, expressive essays.
Therefore, communicating with Alexander, it was not to be wasted on politically correct issues in a streamlined form:
- I suppose you have heard about yourself stamped platitudes like: "judge Dredd," "judge-executioner" and the like?
Actually I did not hurt. Nothing offensive in it, so let call (laughs. - E. K.).
Most of all I touched another. I'm in the army went in March. The second number I was taken to the training camp, and then right from training camp mobilized. And the first version was: "Well, cool from lustration has popatlal!" Okay...Then in may I filed a report, so I was sent to the front and then the version has changed.

 - In which direction?
- Type: "Is it PR, in order to combat the portion to be transferred to propitiate".
- The original way to propitiate"...
"Yeah. At the place of permanent deployment part I spent three weeks on the front. Here is how would have to guess that where every minute you can catch a bullet in your head, from lustration not hiding. And so it began: "he's always been adrenaline.com! He is on Safari went, but still free!".
Well, I don't know why people find it so difficult to understand that people can go to fight for his country...
"MOM KNEW EVERYTHING WHEN I WAS TWO MONTHS FOUGHT"
Perhaps because these people sit in the rear and to fight for the Homeland on their own will never go. But I wanted to ask you this. A few years ago happened to be in Kharkiv in the round table on judicial issues. Drew attention to the Kharkiv judges: a well-dressed haughty Lord. And at the door of the office stood expensive cars, one to one. This fleet that Mama do not cry.
I what: you, your colleagues said, "what are you, crazy?"
"Well, good machine I have (smiles. - E. K.). And colleagues...you know, colleagues sample March and July - are two big differences. Then, in March, often heard: "Yes, why fight? Yes with whom to fight??". And in July for these same words could just get in his face. And now the attitude is very good. When you are in Kharkov, call the court and all very well relate to what I'm doing.
In fact, the war has shown that we need to fight. Because we had the Crimea - and we don't have it. But we never did nothing bad! Then, in order to divert our attention from the Crimea, began a military conflict in the Donbass. And this is understood by many. I know man, I will not say his position, he takes up a leading position in Kharkiv power structure. And in peace he lived, like many of those in power, money, loved...Then started this conflict from the Crimea "pressed" home. It is clear that it has personally affected, and he now not that patriot, he is a patriot of patriots so he Saparov" peregrinacion! He so their operatorial that are still in certain places basements full, and can be exchanged so many of our prisoners.
Crimea, he touched many. I was there from childhood dived, all the South-Western and southern coast of omnirel! I've got a speck of no property, but this was my personal, personal Crimea, my childhood! And for this we are going to fight until the end.
- How long did it take the actual decisions about the care on the front? And how to react is your family?
- Report: decision - night. The twenty-seventh night had decided, twenty-eighth filed a report.

 - In which direction?
- Type: "Is it PR, in order to combat the portion to be transferred to propitiate".
- The original way to propitiate"...
"Yeah. At the place of permanent deployment part I spent three weeks on the front. Here is how would have to guess that where every minute you can catch a bullet in your head, from lustration not hiding. And so it began: "he's always been adrenaline.com! He is on Safari went, but still free!".
Well, I don't know why people find it so difficult to understand that people can go to fight for his country...
"MOM KNEW EVERYTHING WHEN I WAS TWO MONTHS FOUGHT"
Perhaps because these people sit in the rear and to fight for the Homeland on their own will never go. But I wanted to ask you this. A few years ago happened to be in Kharkiv in the round table on judicial issues. Drew attention to the Kharkiv judges: a well-dressed haughty Lord. And at the door of the office stood expensive cars, one to one. This fleet that Mama do not cry.
I what: you, your colleagues said, "what are you, crazy?"
"Well, good machine I have (smiles. - E. K.). And colleagues...you know, colleagues sample March and July - are two big differences. Then, in March, often heard: "Yes, why fight? Yes with whom to fight??". And in July for these same words could just get in his face. And now the attitude is very good. When you are in Kharkov, call the court and all very well relate to what I'm doing.
In fact, the war has shown that we need to fight. Because we had the Crimea - and we don't have it. But we never did nothing bad! Then, in order to divert our attention from the Crimea, began a military conflict in the Donbass. And this is understood by many. I know man, I will not say his position, he takes up a leading position in Kharkiv power structure. And in peace he lived, like many of those in power, money, loved...Then started this conflict from the Crimea "pressed" home. It is clear that it has personally affected, and he now not that patriot, he is a patriot of patriots so he Saparov" peregrinacion! He so their operatorial that are still in certain places basements full, and can be exchanged so many of our prisoners.
Crimea, he touched many. I was there from childhood dived, all the South-Western and southern coast of omnirel! I've got a speck of no property, but this was my personal, personal Crimea, my childhood! And for this we are going to fight until the end.
- How long did it take the actual decisions about the care on the front? And how to react is your family?
- Report: decision - night. The twenty-seventh night had decided, twenty-eighth filed a report.

 The family learned not immediately. About the fact that I was transferred to another part, was known to them, but here they learned then. My mother learned about this last, when part of it so-called "letter home". And on the envelope was written in the section " reverse address " : " /h PP V Duca army ". I fought for two months.
What was written in the letter?
- "Your son...OK...showed...stormed these locations...".
And then my mother might have caught the heart. Or you could warn?
On the envelope was stated about "Duco army". Well, she in the morning was on the phone with me, because if something happened, then perhaps a letter so quickly did not have time to walk.
"OCCUPATION ARMY SNIPER IS MUCH CLEANER THAN THE OTHER"
- You are a sniper, this is a very special, personal, and professional specialization, as a goalkeeper in football. You have to war sniping skills were?
- Yes. I did rifle shooting long enough, I have four rifles, one of them a sniper. Many were shot, hunted. This I can. And part of me these three weeks have actually only put tactics and camouflage.
What rifle are on the front?
- Normal rifle SVD (SVD sniper rifle. - E. K.) with sight PSO-1, four times.
One of the volunteers told me the following: "what we called a sniper rifle (or rather, SVD), today nothing to do with sniping has not. With the range of 200-300, a maximum of 500 meters. What happens on the other side of the sniper that got with a range of one kilometer, and we are 500 metres...Large losses from the snipers were in Ilovaisk. When far behind the enemy is a sniper and shoots at our. And it is in full growth, not steaming, not even bends! Because no doctrlne".
What can you say about this?
- Report: an SVD with a fourfold sight PSO-1 has an effective range of 1300 meters. And in military terms (from specialized units, anti-terrorist or otherwise, their tasks, as a rule, the fire is at 600-800 meters. You can shoot a thousand, at 1300 meters - just there is already exponentially increase uncertainty and, accordingly, the amendments. But I have always said - and say! - I'm a big opponent of the installation on SVD abnormal sights, some hunting, though very expensive. They don't hold returns a military rifle (because live ammunition is significantly more powerful than hunting) - after a few dozen shots at such a sight poured lens, or "falls" sighting grid. "Native" sight PSO-1, for the first time is zeroed at the factory this is the rifle for the army sniper allows you to perform tasks that it has spawned in this conflict. Just need to be able to shoot.

And "home" rifle is a sniper rifle Mosin in 1943 with the aim of PU. This riflescope 3.5 times, and there is no possibility of making such rapid amendments, as on the SVD, there is no scale distances...But nothing from it is also possible to shoot! And snipers of the great Patriotic war is well confirmed. And Nomokonov (famous Soviet sniper, Evenk by nationality. - E. K.), if I'm not mistaken, the first 50 put at all with open sights, with "mechanics". And then he was given a sniper rifle...
Shoot should be able to - then you can shoot.
- You have just used the term "put". How many people in this war has put you?
- None of the snipers who fought in this conflict, do not answer this question. I came up with a beautiful answer: "this only I know, the command of God".
"And if it so happens that you will go into captivity, how many chances you have to stay alive and to be exchanged for some of the separatists?
Zero chances.
- Snipers do not take prisoners?
- There will be death, slow and unpleasant. So I personally this option is not considered. To die without eyes and fingers do not want.
- You have reason to say this?
"Well, it's not the first conflict in the post-Soviet space. Already formed some stereotypes, some standards of behavior. We know, to us it brought, including veterans of previous conflicts. We perceive this as an imminent risk of our work.
Actually, frankly speaking, the occupation army sniper, it's clean, much cleaner than others.
"What do you mean?
- Here is practically eliminated the risk of errors: to kill innocent civilians, peaceful. We shoot anyone with a gun in his hand. Participants of the conflict. Who in the conflict zone takes the weapon in his hands, makes it to kill. Therefore, we should take the opportunity to be killed quietly.
But what about the situation when the enemy is covered civilians, you have not experienced?
"Thankfully, no. If you do not think that those who sit in Donetsk, Lugansk hide behind innocent people. You understand that by pre-located targets under fire of our artillery? And artillery is not a sniper rifle. If these "Sapary" out in the field, equipped with there strong points, we would have shot him there. No one would be in the cities did not shoot. And if they sit there - where shall we shoot? When 43-m was released this territory from the Germans - that was not bombed? Not shot at them with artillery? Shot, because there the Germans sat...
"IT'S A LIE AND A MISTAKE TO ASSUME THAT THE WAR ONLY AT THE DONBASS"
You are on the front has got many friends. And how many of them you have lost?
- (He sighs. - E. K.) Specifically in my platoon this war went ice skating rink. Just in platoon 17, sniper platoon little...And three of them killed (including the platoon commander), six were missing (including Zamkovaya, Sergeant). We have 8 people who are fighting.
In other platoons, fortunately the loss is smaller. But there are also killed and wounded.
They perished, mostly from the bullets of snipers?
- In my platoon platoon commander killed by a gap large projectile or mine. He was considered the first missing and then found it.
Bob Yaroslavtsev...Vova Yanchuk 10 July under Karlovci was seriously wounded by shrapnel mines. Bob tried to pull it out and was killed by a sniper. Vova later in the hospital died of wounds...
Famous volunteer Hottabych told me that in addition to blood in the area ATU him the most sick from the smell of diesel, which this war has literally proposals. He quit Smoking. Do you have habits that you in this war gained or lost?
- (Thoughtfully) Yes, good question...you Know, I like that thought. Some, of course, appeared, because many people who knew me before this conflict, telling me that I had much the character has changed.
- In a good way or bad?
- In the bad, probably because the habit of solving problems by simple means - it is in peacetime can't Express themselves very well. And many will return from war with this habit. Because there are virtually no halftone. It's simple: there is the enemy, here is their, and our cause, because we are doing nothing wrong, no one nothing selected, are fighting for their land.
[08.11.2014 22:37:39] Elena: But here... many people somehow think that there is no war, and the war there. It is false and misleading. War - it is everywhere, just there - front, and here is the rear. Well, now, if in 1942 somebody somewhere in Kazan said, "why do you have to fight with Hitler, with whom there to fight, what did he do?" - it would be broke! So, if anybody here is saying, it will be a very big mistake. Especially in the eyes of someone who has just returned from a "hot spot".
- Yes, I read what you think about the rear , how thoughtlessly he refers to the war and the fact that it happens. On this occasion I remembered cine-vinerovskogo Fox - bandit, who went by the post-war Moscow by order of the Patriotic war, capitalizing on people's heroes in those days. Tell me, you have seen many such people have in the rear?
- Can't say that I saw someone from "clowns", the people in the conversation will be screaming "I fought"at that time, in fact, never were. Actually, if you have never been there, been there will open your deception for two minutes.
- How?
Just on geographical names, commanders, according to the circumstances of the event. It's impossible to fake!

 Of course, there will be those who will beat his chest and scream: "I am the blood bags were shed!". Nothing will understand. Who will back you'll understand.
"TO NOT VOTE WENT FROM FEELINGS OF PROTEST AND SOLIDARITY"
Sounds menacing, and I from many veterans have already heard: come, let's deal with those who do back here did, but only stolen and profited.
How can you imagine this? Many armed military approach to banking or Verkhovna Rada, take her bloody storm - what's next? You know, not so much military juntas were subsequently found to be managerial wealthy...
"I think what happened in this format it will not happen. Our people - and I think you will agree with me - is not peculiar to such spontaneous mass protests. Except that it is not going to get very hard...And still everyone will come back from war one. Because waves demobilization will be different (as in the war with the Germans). Gradually as people integrate...
Without incident, of course, will not do. But each in his place will solve the problem with the injustice with which he will have to face. With that idiocy, with whom he would face. Because there will come a people, many of whom understood the true value of what is happening and learned that in fact the person is not very much. But that little he should be.
- What exactly do you mean?
- The freedom, the opportunity to develop. The opportunity to live with dignity.
- About the true price of what is happening can judge people watching sorry for the pathos, death in the face. Tell me, on the front you see the cowardice on the one hand, and the manifestation of human fear on the other? And how many acts of cowardice you have seen in this war?
- I will say this: I, as probably the rest of the military, basically have to communicate within their Department. And that's my sniper company I acts of cowardice, no one noticed. This courage they are all different: some more "bad", some have a more balanced and reasonable. Someone needs to overcome himself...we Have considered so: even if a person within three hundred times afraid - but does what it should, and as it should - then it is believed that he is not afraid.

- You arrived in our hometown on a business trip - and just in time for the elections. The vote went?
I thought long and hard whether to go to vote. I even drove to the site's daughter, so she voted. Waited for her and left. Because all the guys that are there at the front, they are unable to vote. So what I'm going to vote for? Am I not they?
It is difficult to say. And they quite possibly would have told you: brother, if you have the chance, do it!
"No, I've been thinking to go or not, but didn't go in protest. And in a sign of solidarity.
- If still went for whom would you vote?
- The fact that I don't even know who is running in my district of deputies-the physical violence. a list of the parties will answer clearly: I would vote for "the Right sector.
Why?
- For the simple reason that I fought with them. And I've seen how they fight. I'm with them side by side took the Sands on 24 July, was two days on the plant, when it took on 29-30 July. Yes and after that. In one chain, which is called...
Eugene Kuzmenko to "Censor.NO

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