Officer's Story

I then served in the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral. A man comes up to me in the temple and says: “Can I talk to you?” I nod. We sat down on a bench, and he began: “I served in Afghanistan, I want to tell you how I came back alive. We walked as a group on orders, went far, passed through one narrow valley in the mountains, and ran into an ambush. We are back, and from there, too, fire.
 
In general, hit. Mousetrap. They took up a circular defense, let's shoot back. Of course, contacted the base, reported, turntables flew to us. And the place is narrow, around the mountains. We are fighting off, waiting for ours. Turntables flew in, let's go down, and they opened such hurricane fire from all heights that they barely managed to rise back.
 
It became clear to them to decline without a chance. Well, the guys helped us as they could, and when the ammunition was shot, they flew away.
And the spirits are getting closer and closer, we are fighting back. It got dark here, and they stopped shooting. We all understood that there would be an attack in the morning, and by dinner it would all be over.
And ammunition, and water, and we. No one wanted to be captured, we left grenades for self-detonation. We are waiting for the morning.
 
I didn’t sleep all night, and the guys too, changed my mind all my life. My mother was a very believing believer, already dead by that time. And I, a well-known case, a Soviet officer, it is clear how we were raised then. In the morning, as if dozing off a little. I see my mother, she clearly stands in front of me, shows a map and says: “Here, son, you are here, but here (shows) a hill of stones is drawn up, you send the guys with flashlights, you will find. Mark up the stones, and there is the entrance to the tunnel. Everyone will leave. " I woke up as if I hadn’t slept, I clearly remember the place on the map.
 
I crawl to the commander, tell you if you want to believe it, if you want to, no, but this is the thing. He takes out a tablet, I show the place. They sent intelligence with flashlights. The guys returned, they say everything is for sure, the stones are mapped. We crawled the whole group, the stones were quickly dismantled, and there really was a tunnel. That's how I came back alive. From that time I know what God is. ”
 

Priest Alexy Solodkin