Bestaeva Margarita Dmitrievna, 1926 d.b. an inhabitant of Tskhinval.
The terrible war in August 2008г has made us to outlive the tragic days, which will never wiped off our memory. It seems that the citizens of South Ossetia are accustomed to shooting, after all we have been firing by our "neighbours» for 20 years. The only thought about the war make the tears instinctively emerged in my eyes. When that terrible night of 7-8 of August the firing of our republic started, I was at home with my sister. Having heard the first blasts, we have at once understood that it was -war!
We dashed to run into the cellar, we were so frightened, we thought, we would not live till the morning.
The next day we hoped that fire would stop, however the boom was only increasing. Next to our house a missile was burst up, we decided to run to our neighbours, to the house opposite us- it seemed to us there was more stable there. There were a young girl and an aging woman in the nearby cellar. We were sitting so frightened, shuddering from each blast, in spite of the strong thunder, I heard how my heart was beating, and every moment seemed the last in our life.
There was not left any kind of weapon by which the Georgian fascists were not shooting us. We were perplexed wholly, we did not know where to run, we were terribly frightened and we again decided to scramble into the other cellar, where there were more people. But wherever we found ourselves, it seemed that the georgians were aiming at us.
This war has brought a lot of deaths, in August 2008 also perished our neighbour- the young lad. At 23 years he lost his life. He perished protecting his native land from the enemy, but everything would be able otherwise. After all neither he, nor the other boys, who perished had been not guilty in anything.
Thanks Russia for rendering the aid, but for her I could not imagine what would be happened in our Republic.
