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WHY HAS THERE NEVER BEEN A FEATURE FILM ABOUT THE TERRORIST ATTACK ON DUBROVKA?  Exactly five years ago in Moscow, Chechen terrorists seized the theatrical center on Dubrovka. They took hostage 900 spectators, who had come to see the musical - Edward, why did you, a famous master of the detective genre, suddenly take up nonfiction? Back during those slushy Moscow days when the tragedy was being played out on Dubrovka, I was home sick with the flu, and I was lying around with a fever and watching TV, and on every channel this scary news was being broadcast around the clock. By the second day I realized that I must write about this drama, but not some artistic love affair with an invented story line, but in the documentary genre, with which I am acquainted since I started out as a journalist and was a special correspondent for ‘Komsomolskaya Pravda’ and ‘Literaturnaya Gazeta’. As soon as the hostages were released, I went to Hospital No. 13, where they reportedly brought the bulk of the victims. Their relatives were thronging at the hospital gates, as well as hundreds of reporters, photographers, and television cameramen, who standing guard, waiting to interview the victims. An icy wind blew, and rain mixed with snow was falling. The former hostages left the hospital, like orphans, blinking guiltily from the flashbulbs. Just then I thought that they should have been met with flowers, like conquering heroes. There should have been some generous flower shops willing to provide this kind act. Chocolate factories, fruit stores, and supermarkets should have gotten involved… I made an agreement with my publisher and brought hundreds of new books to the hospital, and got the head physician to pass these out. This, of course, was but a drop in the bucket. But still… — Are people are more generous in similar cases in other countries? I remember in America, where I live six months out of the year, how it was during the tragedy of September 11th, 2001. How it rallied the nation. During the early days volunteers donated so much blood that the medics went on TV to ask them to stop, all storage was already full. During the course of a month an assistance fund for the victims received private donations of one billion dollars. The whole country was seized by a strong sense of empathy. Nothing like this was observed in Russia, alas. — How did you start to gather material for this future book?  At the hospital gate I met with former hostage Svetlana Gubareva, an engineer from Karaganda, who lost in this terrible tragedy her When she told me this, my high blood pressure sent the blood rushing to my head, and angrily I called up Matvienko with whom I had a nodding acquaintance. She was on a business trip, but a half hour later the bureaucrat, who did not love people from outside Moscow, called back proposing to issue Svetlana a pass to any resort in Russia, if only I would hush up the story. But first, though, he shouted at me, how dare I complain to him, but, in general, it all ended happily, and Svetlana went to a rehabilitation center in Chernogolovka, where dozens of other victims were being treated. I met a lot of them there. — Did any of the hostages get ‘Stockholm syndrome’, in which they felt sorry for their tormentors? While they were sitting at gunpoint at Dubrovka and listening to the female suicide bombers tell about the war in Chechnya and the death of their relatives, some of the hostages felt sorry for these destitute women. After the hostages finally went through all this hell with their release and found that one in five of them did not survive, however, there was no sympathy for the terrorists anymore. — So only hate remained? They felt great fatigue, emotional devastation, and a sense of irreparable grief, since so many of them lost their loved ones, and only through some miracle did they themselves manage to survive. These people took every moment of life, every breath of air, to be sort of a miracle. They simply had no more strength left to hate. — Did any of the commandos who stormed Dubrovka willingly get in touch with the writer? In the early days, when the exact number of deaths was still not known, I was invited to one very respected institution, and they said that the Russian government had requested that a book be written about this brilliantly planned operation, later to be made into a movie. They said that I had been entrusted with the creation of this product. I replied that I was already working on it, and that it would be great if they could help me with some documents. I was promised cooperation at the highest levels, and access to all of the investigative materials. Just as soon as it became known 130 people were killed and it all turned into a terrible melodrama, however, my senior ‘curators’ proved powerless, and, conversely, there was a blockade on information. It turned out that there were some readers of my books among the real participants of the assault, the ‘Alfa’ commandos. They agreed to meet with me on a condition of anonymity: I did not know their names or ranks. Their documentary evidence was included in the book. — In your opinion, would it have been possible to avoid so many casualties? The book cited findings by the SPS public commission of inquiry led by Boris Nemtsov, on which worked experts, rescue workers, doctors, and representatives from the intelligence agencies. From this document it was shown that most of the hostages died because they did not receive properly administered first aid. To avoid warning the terrorists of an impending gas attack, doctors were not informed in advance that a soporific gas would be used, and so they did not know how to bring the unconscious people back to life. In a rush, the victims were dragged from the auditorium and dumped in piles of five or six in ambulances, which, incidentally, were catastrophically lacking. They could not drive to the scene because heavy trucks blocked all the roads. Many simply did not make it to the hospital: they died in route, or suffocated because they were lying on their backs with their tongue blocking their airway. Parallel to this story of self-sacrificing heroism on the part of the security services and the physicians, was one of a purely Russian muddle. One expert said as much: “People died, not because the gas was something horrible or disgusting, but because of an elementary inability to figure things out.” — You describe the stories of several amorous couples. Did they agree to appear in the book under their real names? Everything, in everyway, is true to the topic in the novel, and every character bears their own name: Leonid Roshal, Yuri Luzhkov, Joseph Kobzon, Sergei Yastrzhembsky, Georgiy Vasilyev, Aslambek Aslakhanov, Sergei Tsoy, Nikolai Patrushev, and many others. Thus I deprived myself of the right to speculate or write fiction, but there were several scenes in which I had to change the names. For example, in the story about the ‘love triangle’, one was killed and the other two became reconciled to his death, but all the other former hostages agreed to remain in the novel under their names. How are their personal lives now? At the time when they were confessing what they experienced in the auditorium at You know, I spent seven months collecting materials, running through the revelations of hundreds of people, recollections that froze the blood in my veins. It is not easy to live with this. Together with Svetlana, we wrote everything out on huge sheets of poster board, all 57 hours of the tragedy. At each moment we had testimony and every possible publication on what happened inside the theatrical center on Dubrovka, and what was happening on the outside in the hostage rescue headquarters and in the Kremlin. Then, for another three months, I transformed this chronograph into the form of a novel. I think that this will suffice. Hopefully I will never again have to go through this, or, God forbid, participate in it. — Did any families of the destroyed terrorists come to see you? None of the relatives ‘from the other side’ spoke with me. There was only a brief email correspondence with the last lover of bandit leader Movsar Barayev. This was a Russian college student. She said she recognized Movsar from the various television reports and called him up on the cell phone and hysterically begged him to release everyone. She complained that she could not mourn or bury her beloved, as the authorities would not give anyone the bodies of the terrorists. She ended up in a hospital with a nervous breakdown, and so our contact was broken. — A few days ago it was reported that the ‘Beslan Mothers’ organization had filed a lawsuit in the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, in hopes that they will condemn the Russian government, which during the hostage crisis in the school in Beslan in September of 2004 allegedly did not make sufficient effort to save its citizens. Obviously, claims for compensation will follow, but why do the ‘Nor’easters’ not exhibit such activity? People choose a government so that it will protect them, and if the circumstances are unfavorable then government should help, not dismiss them with: “Did you survive? Well, go and live as well as you can with your wounds.” I remember an old woman spoke in court. She told how, as a result of the assault on — You would not know, by the way, how much compensation do people in the developed countries receive in such situations? Allow me to once again recall the September 11th tragedy in New York, where my brother was among the victims. He was near the collapsed towers of the World Trade Center and breathed the cement dust. My brother was given health insurance for life. In addition, the U.S. government allocated from its budget one billion dollars to help the victims of the terrorist act, and everyone eventually got a large amount. It is true, though, that America also has a big bureaucracy and a lot of red tape, and so for months people could not get their money. Still, these obstacles are surmountable and this is why Americans in the face of global catastrophes feel more or less secure and proud of their country. Why does Russia not learn from this experience? Views: 5968 |
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