One Day of a Former Soldier

Hello, I am Andrey. I am 33. I am a former Company Intelligence Special Forces soldier, an owner of a maroon beret. I used to serve in the army of Belarus. Now I live inm Kiev, Ukraine. Here I have a wife and three children. But I couldn’t miss this event, my military unit turned 70, and I went to Minsk for one day. This was my September, 7th, 2012.

In the train I was prepairing for upcoming football matches, I was planning players’ positions. I am a physical training teacher in a private school, by the way.

Cold Minsk

My friend and his daughter were glad to see me.

Posters in his house.

At his work. Even in toilets are cash registers!

Clothes shop owner Nikolay.

We had to stand in this line to have lunch.

Quite cheap

And tasty

Going to the military unit.

In the subway

Amazing! No ads in the train!

New district

My heart was beating while I was approaching to the military unit.

We played football here but more often we were punished by drill exercises.

Our canteen

Demonstrations begin

With my old friend – universal soldier.

Honour Guard

Here soldiers train

Obstacle course. My big love! I was perfect at this! I even had bronze prize-winner in the decathlon special forces championship of Belarus.

Soldiers show what they can.

He almost shot me!

Roth Intelligence in Action

I used to do the same…

Self-defence without weapons

Crashing concrete plates

This is something new, we didn’t do this.

There were many spectators at the event.

Armored personnel carriers

The former commander of the military unit. He is being told a lot of nasty things about. But I like him. He always remembered about soldiers and tried to make their service easier. I wished to resemble him.