theme №388 09/14/1993 (1993)

End of the program.

The topic of the conversation is conscripts and evasion of military duty.

A guest of the program is the chairman of the Subcommittee on the Armed Forces of the Russian Armed Forces, Alexei Tsarev, and the correspondent of the newspaper Moskovskie Novosti Dmitry Ukhlin.

Common problems of service in the internal troops of Russia are discussed, just and fictitious delays, the impossibility of performing alternative service in Russia, unlike foreign countries, physical and psychological readiness of conscripts for service, as well as hazing as the main reason for the reluctance of young people to serve.

Opinion polls: people's reaction to getting a summons to the army (from the conscripts themselves to their parents and other relatives).

The program includes excerpts from the films "Team 33" (1987, directed by N. N. Gusarov), "Love and Doves" (1984, directed by V.Menshov), "Maxim Perepelitsa" (1955, directed by A.M.Granik) .