“These 18-year-old youths [Russian conscripts in Grozny] died for Russia, and they died with a smile.”

—  Pavel Grachev

Vladimir Boxer, " Between Heaven and Earth: Human Rights and Politics in the Chechen War https://web.archive.org/web/20071208080814/http://www.ciaonet.org/conf/jfk04/jfk04ac.html", The Caucasus and the Caspian: 1996–1998 Seminar Series (July 10, 1998).

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