How it was №704 (1997)

The storming of the Palace of Amin, 1979.

December 27, 1979 began the longest war of the XX century.

In distant Kabul KGB special forces took the palace of Dar-ul-Aman (Amin's palace).

Since that day, 20 years have passed.

The release of the program is a per-minute reconstruction of the assault, based on the memories of the immediate participants - the veterans of the Alpha group.

The conversation is attended by the commander of the group "Thunder" Mikhail Romanov, a member of the Muslim battalion Rustam Tursunkulov, commander of the supernumerary combat group Zenit Yakov Semenov, veterans of "Alpha" Boris Pleshkunov, Oleg Balashov, Sergei Golov, Viktor Karpukhin, Nikolai Berlev, military surgeon Igor Kovalenko.

There are footage of the chronicle: the shelling of Amin's palace, the Soviet soldiers in Afghanistan, the return of the wounded to Moscow.