Castles’s Reviews > Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War > Status Update

The fact is, in order to experience the horror you have to remember it and get used to it. Within two or three weeks there’s nothing left of the old you except your name. You’ve become someone else. This someone else isn’t frightened of a corpse, but calmly (and a bit pissed off, too) wonders how he’s going to drag it down the rocks and carry it for several kilometres in that heat.