the story teller on Instagram: "On December 31, 1994, during the New Year’s assault on Grozny in the First Chechen War (Dec 11, 1994 – Aug 31, 1996), a rare radio exchange was captured between men who had once served under the same Soviet system now on opposite sides of a collapsing post-Soviet battlefield.  The Russian voice is widely identified as Col. Ivan “Alik” Savin, commander of the 131st Separate Motor Rifle Brigade (the “Maikop Brigade”), which reached and held the central railway stat