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This book is an exceptional historical document and a testimony to an equally unique historical figure, namely Brigadier General of the Republic of Ichkeria Shamil Basayev.

Often one hears clichés about the controversy, contrast and ambiguity of this charismatic leader of the Chechen movement for freedom from Muscovy. All truths are banal, just as great things are seen from a distance. After all, all attempts to comprehend the historical scale of the figure of S. Basayev, an active witness and participant in the Caucasian resistance to the Kremlin's imperial ambitions, are disproportionate to the optics of his contemporaries. Having started his political career in the very early 1990s, he is directly related to the historiographical intersection of the national liberation and Islamist stages of the Ichkerian struggle for independence and freedom of the entire North Caucasus region. In a different time period, other contemporaries also stigmatised another politician and statesman, Severus Boethius, recognising him as the last Roman and first medieval philosopher with a great delay. However, in our realities, the Evil that S. Basayev so boldly and directly pointed out is still terrified of its implacable enemy and continues its black war with it. After all, it is a deeply rooted Muscovite tradition to destroy both the living and the dead equally. And almost 20 years after his death, the Kremlin's propaganda machine is not slowing down, but is gaining momentum in discrediting, replacing and rewriting historical facts and circumstances related to the life of the Ichkerian national hero S. Basayev. The entire public-historical space around the figure of Shamil is saturated with the theses of imperial Russian propaganda.

This book contains unique historical evidence, documents, materials and facts of Shamil Basayev's life, his direct speech and the words of direct participants in those crucial historical events. Today, this is the first and only book of this format and weight that challenges the systematic veil of Kremlin lies and the age-old darkness of historical untruths spreading from the Moscow swamps to free nations.

Most of the materials are published for the first time.