Nord-Ost: three days of horror

Today we will be talking about Nord-Ost, the 2002 Moscow theater hostage crisis. On October 23, a terrorist group, 42 heavily-armed men and women, took some 850 people hostage in a packed Moscow theatre. The crisis held the whole nation in a state of shock for three days and ended up on the 26th, with a violent assault by special security forces. All the terrorists were killed and around 130 hostages died as the security forces stormed the Nord-Ost theatre building. Our guest in the studio today is one of the survivors, doctor Modest Silin.

Modest Silin was born in Moscow. From an early age, he dreamt about becoming a doctor. In 1991 Modest realised his ambition and graduated from the Moscow Medical Dental Institute. However it wasn't until the 2002 Nord-Ost theatre siege in Moscow that he realised that he wanted to help people more so then just in a medical way. Modest was one of 850 people held hostage at the theatre for three days. Recalling many dreadful memories, he says that calling his brother in Germany to say goodbye whilst still inside the theatre was one of the hardest conversations he had ever had.

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[SuperGoodman44]

becoz of coruption police - coz kavkazian mentolity to buy everything as italian mafia u know

[FieldMarshalRommel23]

How do the equivalant of a platoon of heavily armed scumbags go un-noticed in a city?

[SIGURDOYVIND]

@sprinklefriend You have my deepest sympathy and compassion.

[sprinklefriend]

@SIGURDOYVIND i'm the last person who'd condone it, i was taken by my non-custodial parent & his girlfriend & held in mexico for a full month at age 13. i thought i was going to die in a foreign country & wouldn't even be buried at home.

if you think i'd say it's okay to do this, you're mad. i don't get angry often, but seriously, please don't suggest that. i'm not really angry, just very firm on this issue - i'd never wish the hell i went through on anyone.

[SIGURDOYVIND]

@sprinklefriend Taking hostages can hardly be condoned even though Russian army and police had been doing it all the time in Chechnya. At Nord Ost the hostages were given a chance before Russian Alpha killed most of them and looted pockets of the dead and not quite so dead bodies. It was easy to rescue ALL HOSTAGES but for some reason Putin decided to order killing them.

[sprinklefriend]

@SIGURDOYVIND if they were "generous" (or even human) they would've let them all go or - imagine this! - not have taken them hostage in the first place.

[SIGURDOYVIND]

17:07 Chechen terrorists released children and pregnant women. Rather generous move. Russian OMON gave no such quarters in Chechnya. They targeted specifically pregnant Chechen women and children in Noviye Aldy, Komsomolskaya and many other places