Scorched Earth, Seryokenrozosov's War

"Scorched Earth" In December 1979, 19-year-old college student Seryoken Rozosov was drafted into the army. He believed that he was fulfilling his "internationalist obligations" and bringing light to the Afghan people. Seven years later, he left with seven diaries, a scarred body, and a question that could never be answered: What did we bring there? From the first bloody battle in Kabul to Panjshir's scorched-earth policy; from comrades being sent to death in punishment camps to witnessing quartermasters reselling medicines on the black market - he witnessed how an empire corroded in the quagmire, and how he himself, amidst the corrosion of the system, changed from a young man who read "War and Peace" to a man who learned to shoot, learn to be silent, and learn to lie in front of his mother. He met Faiz, the translator who was torn apart by both sides; Anna, who was waiting behind the scenes and eventually married someone else's girlfriend; Ahmed, the Afghan boy who picked up a toy horse in the rubble.