See the link below: a chilling -- yet also very funny -- video interview with Vladimir Vinogradov, Russian Interior Ministry forces NCO in Chechnya. He's a great storyteller, has a great way with Russian swear words, and is your archetypal regular Russian guy. Vinogradov sits at his command post in the ruins of Grozny next to a chained eagle, and tells his story in a heavy provincial accent laced with colorful obscenities in footage originally filmed last year, which has become a cult classic on the Russian internet. Vinogradov and three mates set out from their native Vladimir to go to war with rucksacks full of vodka, underpants and weapons. They're arrested on a train on the Ukrainian border because they don't have the right papers for their guns, but get drunk with the border guards and end up hugging and kissing. When they finally arrive in Grozny, Vinogradov tours a number of drunk officers slumped at their desks, who all tell him his men aren't needed -- "I thought that 'f--k off' was maybe the local password, I heard it so often," he says. When they finally succeed in attaching themselves to a unit, an officer bets them $100 there are no trams in Grozny. Vinogradov and his pals find an old wheel-less tram, get a Chechen woman to sit in it, and drag it through the city towed behind their armored personnel carrier. The takes are a grotesque testament to the Russian army today, with its culture of casual brutality and cynicism. But as the Russians say, Vingradov's tale is also "sinfully funny."

For Russian speakers only, unfortunately.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5551693627411468867