The Yeti of the Hindu Kush

The Yeti of the Hindu Kush.


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Two years after the start of the war in Afghanistan, Major Sorokin's platoon conducted sweeps from the Dushmans in the Hindu Kush mountains. There were not many Dushmans in this sector, but periodically they ambushed Shuravi columns using RPGs and planted land mines. Sorokin's platoon consisted of snipers and machine gunners, but the main task was performed by snipers. In almost a year, more than three hundred Basmachi were eliminated. After a couple of months, the platoon began to notice that the eliminated targets, dusted with snow, began to disappear from the mountain ranges.

- Major, and who takes them away, are they local, if they were animals, then they would be in their place.

- I don't know, Sergeant Ivanov, there are some big footprints around, maybe bears.

- Bears, how many times have we not met bears in these strange mountains, but only these overgrown savages in pashtuns.

- Sergeant, you're from Siberia, aren't you?

- The Far East, from Vladivostok.

- How do they hunt bears?

— I don't know. Not a hunter.

- And what do they lure a bear with?

- The same as the tiger.

- We don't have honey, but there will be several showers in a week, that's for them.

A week passed, then another. We managed to get some Basmachi, the major and his platoon set up surveillance of an unknown predator.

- Two days have passed, no beast has approached Major.

- We'll keep an eye on it for a couple more days and move to the neighboring slopes.

- And maybe these are aliens, the corporal asked.

- Aliens, maybe then the Yankees are, they themselves are like aliens and completely unlike the peoples of the USSR.

- These natives from the ocean have a different language. Who knows English?

- Not really, just a few words.

On the third day, a creature was spotted in the sight of the SVD, which was approaching the source of the dinner closer to sunset.

- So quietly, in a whisper, that it's a bear.

- There are no such bears.

- And what is it.

- Yeti.

- Yeti, what a yeti.

- Well, yeti, yeti is his yeti, snow sasquatch.

- To tweet, so they really exist.

- We'll send him to Moscow.

- No, don't open fire. If the Yankees find out about this, and from all over Europe will come here to catch the rest, there may be several of them here.

- Yes, there's a war here, they won't get to these parts

- The same Basmachi will be bribed and the Basmachi will shoot the yeti, for these savages this endemic is unknown, and the dollar, the Yanok weapon is known. Yankee enemies have nothing to go into these wild lands.

- Well, this is such a yeti, and has tasted human flesh, canibal, dark fur, does it look like a gorilla or a chimpanzee?.

- No, more like an aborigine from Australia, only more overgrown.

- And how tall is he, two meters?

- Two and a half.

The Yeti disappeared into the night, in the moonlight of the Hindu Kush.