Abstract:
It is late summer 1987. Rumor has it the Soviet army is about to leave Afghanistan. Senior Lieutenant Borisov doesn’t believe the rumor and wangles an assignment to Afghanistan. Borisov believes in his country’s mission in Afghanistan and wants a piece of the action. He believes in the essential nobility of his profession and in lots of other clichés, too. He expects enlisted men to obey their officers unquestioningly and for everyone to follow the regulations. It turns out nearly everything he expected and believed in was wrong. Even love.