UNDERGROUND

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Thirty years ago, Colonel Makarov saved his twin sister from being raped. They were returning from their grandparents and near the Zimovniki station, while the thirteen-year-old Makarov decided to run into the store for seeds, his sister was grabbed by a worker at the Salsk sawmill and dragged into the nearest forest belt.

And although Makarov’s “weapon” then turned out to be only a rusty cover from a refrigeration compressor, and the rapist and most likely the would-be murderer was twice as heavy as him, Colonel Makarov, at that moment just Yura, was relieved when he found them behind blood-red pork.

He was to lose two front teeth, get a concussion, and a scar over his lip for life, but he counted on the worst. Then he had time to think that it was better to die than to blame himself for the rest of his life for what could happen. A little later that evening, his sister told him that she had never seen such a fearless person as he ...

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