The tragic story of Soviet basketball giant Uvais Akhtaev Posting in CHAT: Russia There were many great athletes in Soviet basketball. But there are special ones among them, those who, without exaggeration, can be called legends. One of them is Uvays Akhtaev, whom teammates and fans called Vasya the Chechen. He was a man of enormous height, 236 cm. The great coach Alexander Gomelsky highly valued Akhtaev and believed that the Soviet team lacked him to become world champions earlier. Uvays Akhtaev’s sports career was short-lived - only 10 years. He played for the Burevestnik team (Alma-Ata) from 1947 to 1957. Despite the fact that Vasya Chechen did not have any special achievements or titles, he was known and loved by the entire Soviet Union. This giant was truly useful to his team, repeatedly helping them out in difficult game situations. Akhtaev made an invaluable contribution to the popularization of basketball in Kazakhstan. After completing his career, the basketball player began working as a coach, preparing athletes for the men's and women's national teams of Checheno-Ingushetia. He could have played for many years and brought a lot of benefit to Soviet sports, but he could not change his principles and therefore remained “outside the game.” The son of deported people, Uvais Majidovich Akhtaev was born on December 26, 1930. in the village of Vashendaroy, Shatoi district, Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. When he was 13 years old, his family was deported to Kazakhstan, to Karaganda. In elementary school, Uwais was no different from his peers, but in adolescence he began to grow rapidly. At the age of 14, his height was about 2 meters and he did not stop there. The life of the deported Chechens and Ingush in a foreign country was difficult. Many were malnourished and even starved to death. Because of this, at the age of 14, Uwais began to steal. His criminal career did not last long - the police soon caught the teenager with stolen firewood. It turned out that fate itself sent police officers to Akhtaev, one of whom was an experienced athlete. He wondered how a child, although unusually tall, could carry such a huge pile of firewood. To carry it, an adult man of average build would have to make at least four trips! They decided not to punish the unusual teenager. He was taken to the sports department, where Uvais began to engage in athletics. Akhtaev quickly achieved success in sports. In 1946, he was even sent to Lviv for a sports festival, where a young athlete threw a discus. But soon Uwais left athletics and took up wrestling. And that was not all. He ran from one sport to another: from wrestling he moved to boxing, then he started shooting, and only then he discovered basketball. His first successes in basketball were noticed by coach Isaac Kopelevich, a promising young man of enormous stature. So in 1947, Akhtaev ended up in the Alma-Ata Burevestnik. It turned out that the young Chechen had talent. Uwais played just great and made passes all over the court. Experts said that no one had played like this in the Soviet Union before him. Akhtaev won a huge number of fans. They approached him on the street and did not allow him to sit quietly in the restaurant. It was impossible for the basketball player to escape attention, because he stood out in any crowd. With a height of 236 cm, he weighed, according to various sources, from 160 to 200 kg. But an impressive physique did not contribute to good health. Enormous growth is associated with many problems with the heart, joints and internal organs. Akhtaev began to feel this at a very young age. The main success in Uvais Akhtaev’s sports career can be considered the 1956 Spartakiad of the Peoples of the Soviet Union. The athlete played for the Kazakhstan national team, which was never among the favorites. But together with teammate Armenak Alachachyan, they performed a real miracle. In the preliminary round, the Kazakhstan team defeated the teams of Moscow, Leningrad and Ukraine. True, in the end they took only 5th place, but this was the first such result in the history of Kazakh basketball. At the end of his career, Akhtaev was offered to become a member of the USSR national team. But at the same time they set a condition that the athlete could not agree to. Politburo member Lavrentiy Beria said that the basketball player must change his name, surname and citizenship. Only in this case could he go as part of the national team to the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki. In the Soviet Union, a person whose family was deported could only count on a career if he renounced his roots. Akhtaev replied: “If all this was obtained by betrayal, then I don’t need anything. I like my surname given by my parents and my nationality is from Allah Almighty. I won't change either one or the other. If the country needs me, just as I am, I am ready, sparing no effort and health, to reach sporting heights at any level...” The athlete did not go to the Olympic Games. He did not participate in the next one, in 1956, although it was the period of Khrushchev’s thaw. Coach Gomelsky later said that Akhtaev’s absence from the national team deprived the USSR of gold medals in basketball. In 1957, Uvais Akhtaev was forced to end his career due to sharply deteriorating health The athlete was diagnosed with diabetes. The athlete moved to Grozny and became the head coach of the men's and women's national teams of Checheno-Ingushetia. Thanks to him, the teams began to perform successfully and take prizes. Uvais Mazhidovich was training until 1973, until the disaster happened. He broke his leg and could no longer work. Akhtaev died on June 12, 1978. Before his death, he asked that his grave be simple and inconspicuous. He said that during his life he suffered from excessive attention to himself and did not want this to continue after his departure. Therefore, Akhtaev’s grave is kept secret and only relatives and close friends know about it. The athlete outlived his wife Tamara, but they had no children. The memory of Uvais Akhtaev lives on, and basketball tournaments are held in Chechnya dedicated to his memory. He wrote a book about him, “Giant of Basketball. The triumph and tragedy of Uvays Akhtaev" Said Bitsoev. In 2017, the Sports Palace named after him opened in Grozny. Source link Source link
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feminist tragic farce with Willem Dafoe and Emma Stone – Russia today Posting in CHAT: Russia Godwin Baxter (William Dafoe) is a genius doctor Frankenstein in both the literal and metaphorical sense of the word: his face and body were transformed as a child by his sadistic, experimental father. Now Baxter is experimenting himself, delving into the insides of yet another dead man, inventing pets for himself “for fun” (a goose with the body of a bulldog, for example). However, his next pet, or rather a pet of a special nature, is a girl named Victoria (Emma Stone), who jumped from a bridge into the dark waters of the Thames. Victoria was in the last stages of pregnancy - she died, but the baby inside her managed to survive. Baxter connects the brain of a newborn (also, importantly, a girl) and the body of the mother - and begins to observe. “Poor Man” Photo: still from the film “Poor Man,” a terrifying bedtime story that Tim Burton never dreamed of. And it’s not even about the dismembered flesh, which is abundant here, and not about various kinds of sex scenes, which are also abundant here (these scenes are such that they do not cause any temptation to repeat them). Coldly and consistently, Yorgos Lanthimos forces us to say goodbye to illusions and ideas about what it means to be a woman. Victoria (her new name is Bella Baxter) is not a beautiful muse, not a cherub in airy gauze, and not even a sex object (although men see her as such at different times). Victoria is the very essence of a woman who is looking for herself, the meaning of her existence in this world, and not the role that she has to play in this world. "Pauper" Photo: Still from the film Despite the exquisite shooting style and exquisite design (steampunk fans will be delighted), "Pauper" is not a very complex film with all its dog geese and drawn-out courtyards. act as a diversion. The plot centers on the star Bella Baxter and the men around her, each of whom belongs to a certain type. The father who gave life (Bella easily calls Baxter God), a boy hopelessly in love, the first experienced lover (Mark Ruffalo with a lustful mustache is especially good in this role), a despotic husband - well, and then about the little things: how random a travel companion or a series of lovers who Bella needs only one thing. “Poor, Unfortunate” Photo: still from the film In a realistic story, Bella would have lived a life with them full of pain, mental and physical suffering - but in Lanthimos’s universe she does not know the illusions of romantic love, and therefore her point of view is more objective, sharper and, of course, , more cynical. Emma Stone deservedly received her Oscar - not so much for her acting, but for her female dedication. There are certainly no moral barriers for her if the film is worth it - if Lars von Trier were filming his Nymphomaniac now, Emma would significantly improve his cast. Lanthimos is a staunch pro-feminist, which was evident in his other films, but in The Unhappy Poor he reached a completely new level for himself. I wonder if there is a single man who is not a professional critic who will enjoy "Poor Men" as much as a simple girl. And not every woman admits to herself that she is also a little Bella Baxter. To do this, you must first die a little and then be born again. Source link Source link
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Today’s date in Russia is saddened by a tragic event – on the night of February 29 to March 1, 2000 in Chechnya at height 776 (in the Argun Gorge) the 6th company of the 104th regiment of the 76th Pskov Airborne Division was killed in a fierce battle with Chechen militants. Posting in CHAT: RussiaOf the ninety paratroopers who took the battle against superior terrorist forces, 84 were killed, including 13 officers. They did not flinch, did not retreat, and fulfilled their military duty to the end, stopping the advance of the gang. Then, in February 2000, the military phase - an important stage - of the second Chechen war was ending. After the fall of Grozny and Shatoy (the last large settlements in Chechnya remaining in the hands of militants), according to the federal command, the defeated militants should have divided into small detachments and dispersed to mountain bases. However, the militants concentrated. Most of their commanders, including Sh. Basayev and Khattab, proposed to break through in a north-eastern direction, towards the Dagestan border. One of the most obvious routes of retreat was the Argun Gorge. In total, in the area of the village of Ulus-Kert, then, according to various sources, from 1.5 to 2.5 thousand well-trained militants were concentrated. On the part of the federal troops, to cover this direction, among other units, the 6th company was sent - a combined detachment of paratroopers under the command of Guard Lieutenant Colonel M. Evtyukhin, who was given the task of occupying a line four kilometers southeast of Ulus-Kert, with the aim of to prevent a possible breakthrough of militants in the direction of Vedeno. The 6th company gained a foothold on the dominant height 776. But the militants went ahead. The battle near Ulus-Kert began on February 29, 2000 and continued throughout the next day. Although the paratroopers received no help other than the breakthrough of 10 scouts of the 4th company and fire support from artillery units, they fought to the death. The artillerymen “worked” on the heights all night. On the morning of March 1, hand-to-hand fighting ensued, and at a critical moment, Lieutenant Colonel Evtyukhin called in artillery fire “On himself!” On March 2, the remaining militants were scattered by an air and artillery raid. The soldiers of the 1st company of the 1st battalion also tried to help their comrades. But while crossing the Abazulgol River, they were ambushed and were forced to gain a foothold on the bank. Only on the morning of March 2 did they manage to break through, but it was too late - the 6th company died, only 6 soldiers remained alive. According to federal forces, militant losses ranged from 400 to 700 people. The remaining militants managed to break out of the Argun Gorge. They went to the mountains and disappeared. Later, some field commanders were killed. The death of the paratroopers, left without help and cut off from reinforcements, raised a large number of questions among the public and relatives of the victims about the authorities and military command. According to many military analysts and media representatives, the death of the 6th company was caused by a number of mistakes and miscalculations of the Russian command. On August 2, 2000, on the day of the 70th anniversary of the Airborne Forces, Russian President V. Putin came to the Pskov division and personally apologized to the relatives of the victims for “gross miscalculations that have to be paid for with the lives of Russian soldiers,” admitting the Kremlin’s guilt. But even years later, neither the president nor the military prosecutor’s office explained who exactly made these gross miscalculations, paid for with the lives of soldiers. Subsequently, all the dead paratroopers were forever included in the lists of the 104th Guards Regiment. By decree of the President of the Russian Federation, 22 paratroopers were awarded the title of Heroes of Russia (21 posthumously), and 68 soldiers and officers of the 6th company were awarded the Order of Courage (63 posthumously). All of them are guys from 47 republics, territories and regions of Russia and neighboring republics. The films “I Have the Honor”, “Breakthrough”, “Russian Sacrifice”, the musical “Warriors of the Spirit”, the books “Company”, “Breakthrough”, “Step into Immortality”, songs are dedicated to the memory of the Pskov paratroopers. The streets of their native cities were named in their honor, and memorial plaques were installed in educational institutions where the hero-paratroopers studied. Monuments were erected to them in Moscow and Pskov. However, the anniversary of this battle is not usually celebrated at the official level. Commemorative events in the last days of February - early March are usually carried out by public organizations and relatives... Original source Source link
