Vladislav Tamarov, Afghanistan: A Russian Soldier's Story Quotes
We didn’t believe in tomorrow. We we couldn’t forget what had happened yesterday.
When you live next to death ... you don't think about it anymore, you just try to encounter it as seldom as possible.
By 1989, the total number of Vietnam veterans who had died in violent accidents or by suicide after the war exceeded the total number of American soldiers who died during the war.
Once, back home, I decided to count how many days out of my twenty months in Afghanistan I’d been on combat missions. 217 days. And I’m still paying the price for every one of those days.
![Vladislav Tamarov, Afghanistan: A Russian Soldier's Story Quotes: "There's nothing I can do to erase the shadow of misery and despair from the eyes looking back at me from the photos [that I took in Afghanistan]."](https://www.quoteslyfe.com/images/collection3/quotations52/There-s-nothing-I-can-do-to-52983.jpg)
There's nothing I can do to erase the shadow of misery and despair from the eyes looking back at me from the photos [that I took in Afghanistan].
![Vladislav Tamarov, Afghanistan: A Russian Soldier's Story Quotes: "[On one of his comrades depicted in the book:]"Sasha was my friend … Like me, he was 19. But he didn't come home. He was killed 12 hours after this photo was taken."](https://www.quoteslyfe.com/images/collection3/quotations52/On-one-of-his-comrades-depicted-in-52985.jpg)
[On one of his comrades depicted in the book:]"Sasha was my friend … Like me, he was 19. But he didn't come home. He was killed 12 hours after this photo was taken.
Someone once said that a minesweeper makes only two mistakes: the first is when he decides to be one. The second …