There was talk of starvation and it scared me. Thus his passion for disadvantaged groups in what was the Soviet Union. My whole life I was pained by it. Pain said he chose not to resign from the Kremlin at the height of the Chechen war, as other intellectuals had, because he thought he could more effectively promote peaceful means from the inside. The more the war drags on, the more Russian nationalism will grow.
Russian troops have no chance of winning.
In ethnic conflict, it is necessary to diminish the reasons for radicalization. When you use artillery, you don't kill selectively. Pain was almost taken prisoner while on a mission to Chechnya. Every man has to know what it is like to be in a war and this was my war. I was not really brave, I did not know better.