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Thank you. Greetings, comrades, and welcome to the Eastern border.

Recently, while checking on the news to bring you, I stumbled upon an interesting section in the site of the official Ministry of Defense of Russia.

See, they, just like every ministry of defense, they also published their own educational

magazines and everything.

And, yeah, apparently their institute that prepares young soldiers and everything, has

published a book about the war, which is basically a guideline to how soldiers should do that everyday lives

and why are they fighting in this war and everything. So, I decided that, of course, I had to

take a look at this. And, well, I'll just let the intro speak for itself. The book was written

apparently by veterans of the Afghan war and North Caucasus War and everything,

and this whole thing is authored by one Razumov a dot and khrukov and Kuznyakov.

The book is called I Live, I Fight, I Win, Rules of Everyday Life in War.

And now from the intro, quote,

This is a collection of recommendations

based on the generalized experience of combatants in Afghanistan, North Caucasus, and Ukraine.

The presentation of this book is a bit different than the usual ones presented to cadets.

This book has deep knowledge of the problematics exhibited within,

brevity, accessibility for understanding, and clarity of presentation.

This collection is intended for military personnel of the armed forces of the Russian Federation,

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