Цинковые мальчики. 13-е изд

"T͡Sinkovye malʹchiki" - tretʹi͡a kniga khudozhestvenno-dokumentalʹnogo t͡sikla "Golosa Utopii" Svetlany Aleksievich, laureata Nobelevskoĭ premii po literature "za mnogogolosoe tvorchestvo - pami͡atnik stradanii͡u i muzhestvu nashego vremeni". Bez ėtoĭ knigi, davno stavsheĭ mirovym bestsellerom, uzhe nevozmozhno predstavitʹ sebe ni istorii͡u afganskoĭ voĭny, ni istorii͡u poslednikh let sovetskoĭ vlasti, okonchatelʹno podorvannoĭ ėtoĭ voĭnoĭ. Neizbyvno gore matereĭ, poni͡atno ikh stremlenie uznatʹ pravdu o tom, kak i za chto voevali v Afganistane i pogibali ikh synovʹi͡a. No, uznav ėtu pravdu, mnogie iz nikh uzhasnulisʹ i otkazalisʹ ot nee. Knigu Svetlany Aleksievich sudili "za klevetu" - samym nastoi͡ashchim sudom, s prokurorom, obshchestvennymi obviniteli͡ami i "gruppami podderzhki" vo vlasti i v presse. Materialy ėtogo pozornogo prot͡sessa takzhe vkli͡ucheny v novui͡u redakt͡sii͡u "T͡Sinkovykh malʹchikov".

"Zinc Boys" is the third book in the fiction and documentary series "Voices of Utopia" by Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature "for polyphonic creativity - a monument to the suffering and courage of our time." Without this book, which has long become a world bestseller, it is no longer possible to imagine either the history of the Afghan war or the history of the last years of Soviet power, which was completely undermined by this war. The grief of the mothers is inexhaustible, and their desire to find out the truth about how and why their sons fought and died in Afghanistan is understandable. But upon learning this truth, many of them were horrified and rejected it. Svetlana Alexievich's book was tried "for libel" - by a real court, with a prosecutor, public prosecutors and "support groups" in the government and in the press. The materials of this shameful trial are also included in the new edition of The Zinc Boys.