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Speaker 3: So you went to your place, you packed up. Did
Speaker 3: you talk to your parents at all?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: So you didn't even tell your dad you were going
Speaker 3: to Chechnya.
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: Really, I just.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I just didn't speak with them. We
Speaker 2: didn't talk for like quite a long time, for the
Speaker 2: whole year.
Speaker 3: Did you tell anyone else or anyone in your family? No,
Speaker 3: out of your sister.
Speaker 2: I couldn't speak with my sister. I mean I was
Speaker 2: not allowed to speak with my sister.
Speaker 3: You might have died and shash In. Your family just
Speaker 3: would have found out.
Speaker 2: I mean they would find out at some point.
Speaker 3: I mean they would find out through like a letter
Speaker 3: or someone shut up their door. But you never even
Speaker 3: would have told them you were going.
Speaker 2: To the war. Well, they said that I wish you
Speaker 2: to be not alive. I was thinking, I mean, it
Speaker 2: doesn't manter if I will go, even if I will
Speaker 2: be Dad, they don't really care anyway. I felt like,
Speaker 2: maybe this is it, this is the end which they'll
Speaker 2: give me the relief to kill you. I'm really sorry
Speaker 2: that Junyuns suit.
Speaker 3: Suit verses, episode ten, chapter twenty two sent to die.
Speaker 2: So in the morning I arrived at the train station
Speaker 2: and we all lined up. I had my backpack with me,
Speaker 2: and it.
Speaker 3: Was one of the worst days of a Leah's life
Speaker 3: and possibly one of the last. As punishment for rejecting
Speaker 3: her new commander's advances, she had been sent away to
Speaker 3: die on the front lines of a war five hundred
Speaker 3: miles away.
Speaker 2: So first we sat down into the train and everybody
Speaker 2: in the car were just young boys. The eyes were
Speaker 2: full of fears, and I looked at them and everybody
Speaker 2: just had only one thought. Vala survive, Vla come back.
Speaker 3: The train was bound for the border between Russia and Keshnya,
Speaker 3: a mostly Muslim region just north of the country of Georgia.
Speaker 3: It was annexed by Russia in the nineteenth century and
Speaker 3: ever since then has been trying, with varying degrees of success,
Speaker 3: to be on an next and independent again.
Speaker 2: And when we arrived at the main station, we were
Speaker 2: giving this uniform. It was like a thick jacket. The
Speaker 2: color was dark green. Everything was much bigger than my size.
Speaker 2: And to they eve as guns, but like sniper guns
Speaker 2: VCC and SVD. I didn't have any idea even how
Speaker 2: to use these guns.
Speaker 3: Some nine years earlier, Checha had declared its independence, and
Speaker 3: now Eliyah and her fellow soldiers were there fighting in
Speaker 3: a war for Putin, who was determined to retake control
Speaker 3: of the territory for Russia. This was the Second Chechen War.
Speaker 2: And then I had this guy and he was standing
Speaker 2: next to me, and he was like from Kyrgyzstan. I
Speaker 2: think she probably so like that. I was all depressed
Speaker 2: because I was standing there as the zombie. He was
Speaker 2: telling me some funny stories and very stupid and I
Speaker 2: looked at him, like, can you like stop, and he said,
Speaker 2: is it like your first time. I'm like, yes, of course,
Speaker 2: it's my first time. He was like, he relaxed, it's
Speaker 2: like my second time. So no worries, nothing happened. See,
Speaker 2: I'm still alive. I'm still here.
Speaker 3: The newly arrived soldiers, including Aliyah and the man she
Speaker 3: was talking to, Rashid, were then ordered onto trucks and
Speaker 3: sent to the front lines.
Speaker 2: He was talking and then he started to smoke, and
Speaker 2: everybody was smoking, and I just I thought, like, maybe
Speaker 2: it will help me out. So I tried to smoke
Speaker 2: and then I was coughing and I said, fuck it,
Speaker 2: I'm not doing this, like I couldn't. And then he said,
Speaker 2: good good. It's better not to smoke if you a sniper.
Speaker 2: And it was like why, And then another guy was
Speaker 2: sitting next to me. He said, if you smoke in
Speaker 2: the night, your enemy may see you, and if they
Speaker 2: can just truck or like culculate where your hat is,
Speaker 2: they can kill you in your like hat. So it's
Speaker 2: better not to get used to the smoke. And they
Speaker 2: said like, oh yeah, good to know. Thanks. We were
Speaker 2: driving for a couple hours. It became dark and cold,
Speaker 2: and we arrived to the place where far away we
Speaker 2: could see it was not like even town, but like
Speaker 2: small kind of feelings with a few houses.
Speaker 3: Leah and her new squad members were then brought to
Speaker 3: a makeshift military base on top of a hill.
Speaker 2: They said, okay, so this is your station. Obviously, no shower,
Speaker 2: no TV or anything like that, no computer, no telephone,
Speaker 2: no internet of course, no nothing. And the smell was
Speaker 2: the smell of death, when you smell man swat together
Speaker 2: with blood, together with the land. I can remember in
Speaker 2: my nightmares. I mean, there were only guys that was
Speaker 2: kind of like a little bit concern me. But you
Speaker 2: know what, nobody even thought about sex, because the most
Speaker 2: important instinct is to survive. The first night, I didn't
Speaker 2: sleep at all, and I didn't hear anything. It wasn't
Speaker 2: any you know, bombs or gun shots. And then in
Speaker 2: the morning, around like five am, I felt so cold,
Speaker 2: was freezing, and I couldn't even hear any birds singing
Speaker 2: or anything like that. It was deadly quiet, and I
Speaker 2: looked at the guys, they are sleeping click babies.
Speaker 3: Over the course of her first day on the front lines,
Speaker 3: Alah's friend from the train station, Rashid, became a mentor
Speaker 3: of sorts to her. He showed her the safest corner
Speaker 3: of the barracks to sleep in and taught her other
Speaker 3: best practices for staying alive that he learned on his
Speaker 3: previous deployment in Shshnya.
Speaker 2: I was trying to wash my face. He said, don't
Speaker 2: do it, and I was like, dude, are you crazy,
Speaker 2: Like this is hygienical things. I need to wash my face.
Speaker 2: And he said, now, if you're a sniper, because if
Speaker 2: your face is clean, then the color of the clean
Speaker 2: skin reflects the light and then the other sniper can
Speaker 2: see you and can shoot you really really well.
Speaker 3: Rashid totally and more about concealment and shooting a rifle.
Speaker 3: And they were signed as buddies and giving nights lookout duty.
Speaker 2: We were started to talk a lot, and I kind
Speaker 2: of like get used to his stupid jokes. And while
Speaker 2: we were like sitting there, remember he was asking me
Speaker 2: questions like, so where did you study, what was your department?
Speaker 2: Who was your commander? And slowly, slowly I just opened
Speaker 2: up to him. I said, like, you know what I
Speaker 2: can tell him? Why not? So I told him the
Speaker 2: whole story from the beginning.
Speaker 3: When Leah got to the part of the story about
Speaker 3: turning down the advances of her commander, Lieutenant General Rashid
Speaker 3: had some strong words about him.
Speaker 2: Oh like that preck. I heard a lot of stories
Speaker 2: about him. He sent many soldiers to the front line,
Speaker 2: knowing that they would be killed, he still did it.
Speaker 2: He didn't care about the families, about their lives, so
Speaker 2: he just basically sacrificed their lives for nothing. He said,
Speaker 2: he's a very bad commander, and and they said, well
Speaker 2: that's why I'm here. I guess it's just bad luck.
Speaker 3: After a few days, Aliah began to realize the full
Speaker 3: grim nature of her assignment, shooting at people who she
Speaker 3: didn't know and couldn't see who were also shooting at her,
Speaker 3: and wondering at the same time, was she even on
Speaker 3: the right side here.
Speaker 2: We were attacking civilians. We were fighting normal families they
Speaker 2: will protect in their country. We were attacking them. And
Speaker 2: then I heard a lot of stories about cheaching men,
Speaker 2: how cruel they are, how do they torture people, How
Speaker 2: they would cut you apart just for their pleasure, just
Speaker 2: to have fun. They would cut off the head of
Speaker 2: the Russian soldiers and they would send it to either
Speaker 2: Russian commanders just to kind of like piece them off
Speaker 2: and scare them. Call these like stories made me nauseous.
Speaker 3: Alia didn't know whether these stories were true or just
Speaker 3: dehumanizing propaganda, but it kept her close to the base
Speaker 3: and an high alert in case of attack.
Speaker 2: We didn't have enough food, and one day a small
Speaker 2: troop of my colleague soldiers decided to go to the
Speaker 2: village to get some food. I mean, not to get
Speaker 2: some food. They would basically almost like robe this village, right, So,
Speaker 2: I mean the Russian soldiers with guns hungry, So of
Speaker 2: course the village population would just give wherever devoted, just
Speaker 2: to leave them alone and not to kill their families
Speaker 2: and their kids.
Speaker 3: But this time the raid didn't go as planned.
Speaker 2: There was an old guy, old enough to fight, but
Speaker 2: he still had a gun in the house, and he
Speaker 2: tried to kill my colleagues, but they shot him first.
Speaker 2: So it was it was terrible, you know, it was
Speaker 2: terrible because they're like old people in that village who
Speaker 2: were just killed for nothing.
Speaker 3: It's unclear whether one man in the village was killed
Speaker 3: or several people. But this act of senseless brutality shattered
Speaker 3: the quiet on the base.
Speaker 2: When the broad of food, it was the feeling that
Speaker 2: this food had like blood, you know, like it's just
Speaker 2: you couldn't just even eat it. It's almost like poisoned
Speaker 2: by the blood of innocent people.
Speaker 3: The next day, snipers began shooting at the base. Evidently
Speaker 3: the villagers had informed the Chechen militia about what had happened,
Speaker 3: and now they were taking revenge, a revenge that in
Speaker 3: some respects Leah could understand.
Speaker 2: It really peaceed that mercenaries off. That's why they came
Speaker 2: and they started to basically kill us. If he wouldn't
Speaker 2: do it, or if they wouldn't go to the village,
Speaker 2: you wouldn't have this problem.
Speaker 3: Despite Elia's empathy for what the Chechens were going through,
Speaker 3: she was also a Russian soldier target of these mercenaries,
Speaker 3: and she had her orders.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 2: Our commander wanted to terminate them by killing them.
Speaker 3: So that night Aliah and Rashid went to their lookout location,
Speaker 3: knowing that this time they might not come back. Chapter
Speaker 3: twenty three, Aliah's prayer.
Speaker 4: Flahood.
Speaker 1: Russia has waged a brutal war against Chechen separatists since
Speaker 1: the nineteen nineties. The violence began when a former soul.
Speaker 5: We have fought against the Lastian occupations for centuries. We
Speaker 5: even had our own Holocaust. Stallion deported the entire book.
Speaker 6: The Minister for a Defense provided a report on Zechhniya.
Speaker 6: Let me quote from the text. In Russia's interest, this
Speaker 6: region must be rendered devoid of life.
Speaker 4: The Chechens were pretty formidable. They were a strange mix
Speaker 4: of volunteer, local militias, ex military and foreign fighters.
Speaker 3: This is doctor Mark Gailiadi, who is one of twenty
Speaker 3: nine British journalists that the Putin regime banned from Russia
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty two. He's also the author of several
Speaker 3: books on Russia, including Putin's Wars.
Speaker 4: The Chechens themselves think of themselves as wolves, but they
Speaker 4: regard the wolf as being essentially something to live up to.
Speaker 4: But on the one hand, absolutely ferocious in defense of
Speaker 4: the pack, but one that ultimately depends on and protects
Speaker 4: the pack.
Speaker 3: Because this region and the Caucasus Mountains and the Chechens
Speaker 3: who lived there are very little understood, I've called doctor
Speaker 3: Gailiadi to help explain the war that a Leo was
Speaker 3: fighting in.
Speaker 4: Of all the various parts of the Soviet Union, the
Speaker 4: one that was probably the most unruly, the most reluctant
Speaker 4: to be under Moscow's control was Chechnya. It had been
Speaker 4: finally annexed by the Russian Empire back in the mid
Speaker 4: nineteenth century, and essentially, whenever the central government looked weak,
Speaker 4: the Czechen's rebelled.
Speaker 3: Doctor Gailiadi explains that when the Soviet Union dissolved, Chechnya
Speaker 3: took the opportunity to declare independence, and though the Russian
Speaker 3: army tried to stop them, they didn't succeed. This was
Speaker 3: the first Chechen War.
Speaker 4: And in effect, the Chechens fought the Russians to a
Speaker 4: draw at that time.
Speaker 3: Then Putin came to power and decided to finish Russian
Speaker 3: business in Chechnya, but first he needed a reason to
Speaker 3: go back to war.
Speaker 5: A few weeks later, there were several terrorist bombs in Russia.
Speaker 5: Over three hundred were killed. It wasn't clear who had
Speaker 5: done it, but most Russians were ready to blame the Chechens.
Speaker 5: But some now say that these events were orchestrated by
Speaker 5: the spies inside Putin's power base, the FSB successor to
Speaker 5: the KGB.
Speaker 3: I'm going to tell you without any doubts that the
Speaker 3: second war was initiated by FSB as a provocation they
Speaker 3: provo Jitchu. This became the second Chechen War, the one
Speaker 3: that a Leah was now caught up in. Here's doctor
Speaker 3: Gailliardi again, who also hosts the podcast in Moscow Shadows.
Speaker 4: So essentially, yes, this is very much Putin's war, and
Speaker 4: also this was his opportunity to essentially demonstrate to Russians
Speaker 4: across the country that things were going to be different now.
Speaker 4: It gave him a chance to pose with tough guy,
Speaker 4: macho rhetoric, but also make the point that Russia was back.
Speaker 3: Even by the low standards of war. The Second Chechen
Speaker 3: War was a brutal and horror filled conflict on all sides,
Speaker 3: which included torture, assassination, mass murder of civilians, and suicide attacks.
Speaker 4: All civil wars have a tendency to be deeply unpleasant,
Speaker 4: but in this case, brutality was mobilized as another weapon
Speaker 4: of war. I mean, there were at least forty thousand
Speaker 4: civilians who died. We have cases of cities like Grosny
Speaker 4: being leveled even when their civilian populations within, But we
Speaker 4: also have a huge range of everything from outright atrocities
Speaker 4: to just simply heedless brutality. Looting, for example, was widespread.
Speaker 3: This is audio of a Chechen fighter returning a laptop
Speaker 3: that was looted by Russian forces. How he got it
Speaker 3: back we probably don't want to know. In the end,
Speaker 3: Houtin ultimately won his war, but at what cost.
Speaker 4: What happened is essentially Chechnia was brought under control. But
Speaker 4: it was brought under control firstly by massive levels of brutality,
Speaker 4: secondly by promising the new Chechen elite huge amounts of
Speaker 4: money and considerable autonomy.
Speaker 3: With this context, now let's return to Alah at her
Speaker 3: fellow soldier Rashid as they walked their lookout point on
Speaker 3: the Russian Chechen border. With the looting of Russian troops
Speaker 3: has led to a retaliatory attack by the Chechen militia.
Speaker 2: So we we went to our location with Russia at
Speaker 2: the small hill. And while we were laying there, like
Speaker 2: I was just looking at the vauge all the time.
Speaker 2: One am, two am, three am, four am. By five am,
Speaker 2: I noticed that I was shaking. I was called as well.
Speaker 2: But you know, like this feeling when you scared so much,
Speaker 2: it's like your heart is shaking and it gives this
Speaker 2: shake to all your body. So six am, we've heard
Speaker 2: some gunshots from outside. It wasn't that long for a
Speaker 2: few minutes and Rushet he touched me with my shoulder
Speaker 2: and he said, okay, now like now, and he pressed
Speaker 2: the trigger and he shot them the enemy. He said
Speaker 2: to me, it's simple. Now it's your turn. And I
Speaker 2: saw through the scope. I saw the face with the
Speaker 2: beard and with the hat, and I stop breathing at
Speaker 2: that moment, but I waited. I felt like the blood
Speaker 2: and the heart beatings through my ears, like I could
Speaker 2: feel that my heart is beating so loud, or she
Speaker 2: told me, like do it now. I pressed the trigger
Speaker 2: and it was the silence pressed the trigger. I didn't cry.
Speaker 2: I didn't feel anything that time. That moment, I just
Speaker 2: didn't feel anything. I felt the metallic, you know, metallic.
Speaker 2: I don't know how do you say it. I just
Speaker 2: felt the strength of the gun and I didn't look again.
Speaker 2: I just close my eyes like that. And then Raschid
Speaker 2: told me, good job. Was it a good job? I
Speaker 2: don't know. I laid there for maybe an hour in
Speaker 2: the silence. Raschett also didn't talk. And then in the
Speaker 2: morning later we returned to our pace. I didn't want
Speaker 2: to talk to anyone. I drank a little bit water,
Speaker 2: but I couldn't even I couldn't even eat anything. When
Speaker 2: you experience something like that, it's just so much stressed.
Speaker 2: It was like almost like nauseous to even think about
Speaker 2: the food. I fell asleep. When I woke up, it
Speaker 2: was already dark and only Rashid came to me. He
Speaker 2: said to me, do you feel like okay? Like yeah,
Speaker 2: and he said, well, let's go, Let's go back. We
Speaker 2: need to, you know, to go back to our position.
Speaker 2: I said, like, yeah, let's go.
Speaker 3: As Aliyah and Rashid walked together, he spoke to her
Speaker 3: about his own challenges and come to terms with a
Speaker 3: horrible act of killing, trying to help her feel better
Speaker 3: about the events of the day before and likely the
Speaker 3: day ahead.
Speaker 2: We're walking and he talked to me. His eyes were
Speaker 2: always warm, you know, like he was really kind and
Speaker 2: he loved nature. He always was like looking at the
Speaker 2: sun and telling like it's so beautiful and leaves and
Speaker 2: trees and and he was a perfect sniper and killer.
Speaker 2: Told me about the wolf. He was a young boy.
Speaker 2: His father took him for the hunting and he said,
Speaker 2: I saw a big wolf and he said his eyes
Speaker 2: were so beautiful, and he said he looked at me,
Speaker 2: and father said, like, don't hesitate pressed the trigger and
Speaker 2: he said, I I couldn't do it because the wolf
Speaker 2: was so beautiful, like just beautiful animals, just like strong eyes.
Speaker 2: And he said he felt really bad after. He made
Speaker 2: me to feel a little bit better. I told him, listen,
Speaker 2: it's still human being, and it's still someone's son, perhaps father, brother, husband.
Speaker 2: And he said to me, never think this way, he said,
Speaker 2: when I hunt animals, they also have families, but you
Speaker 2: are the hunter. Never think that these people are somehow
Speaker 2: cescated to anyone else, because if you will start to
Speaker 2: do this, when you hesitate to press the trigger, that
Speaker 2: exactly the moment when you will be killed. You said,
Speaker 2: you just don't think like you aim it you press
Speaker 2: the button. We came to the position that night. It
Speaker 2: was quite I could hear how the wind was going.
Speaker 3: As they set up their guns, and they waiting in
Speaker 3: this irrequiet. Elia's dreads soon came back. Despite Rashid's talk.
Speaker 2: That smell and that coldness, and that disgusting feeling of
Speaker 2: the metallic cold weapen in your hands constantly, where your
Speaker 2: finger is just stuck closer to the trigger, and you're
Speaker 2: always in pressure, waiting.
Speaker 3: Even after several more nights of stillness broken by gunfire,
Speaker 3: Alah never became comfortable with the horrible task required to survive.
Speaker 3: The constant terror. Sleeplessness and discomfort made away at.
Speaker 2: Her like I came to the point where I just
Speaker 2: was thinking that I don't care what will happen. I
Speaker 2: just want to get out, Like you don't care anymore even,
Speaker 2: you know, like at some point you're so scared, you're scared,
Speaker 2: You're scared, You're scared, you're scared, and then you at
Speaker 2: some point you're just like so tired to be scared
Speaker 2: that you like, fuck it if I will be killed,
Speaker 2: I don't care anymore, Like I'm so tired, you know,
Speaker 2: Like it's like you're just so exhausted. You just feel like,
Speaker 2: even if it will happen to me, it's okay. I
Speaker 2: saw enough, it's fine. I just want to go to
Speaker 2: somewhere else, maybe in another world.
Speaker 3: But instead it just got worse. One night in particular,
Speaker 3: just before a big mission, Aliah was plagued by nightmares
Speaker 3: and found herself praying in her half sleep.
Speaker 2: Please God, please just get me out of here, please.
Speaker 2: I don't want to be here. Do something so I
Speaker 2: can leave this place, and I want to go home.
Speaker 3: She slept fifthully, and then suddenly she woke to noise
Speaker 3: and chaos all around her.
Speaker 2: When I woke up, I felt like something was going
Speaker 2: wrong and people like running, and it's some kind of
Speaker 2: like tension, but I didn't know exactly what happening.
Speaker 3: What was happening is that our base was being pounded
Speaker 3: by grenades and waters.
Speaker 2: Behalf of the base. It was just bombard like that,
Speaker 2: and the holes like land and sun and everything just
Speaker 2: with all this, you know, like soil. It just flew
Speaker 2: under my on the top of my head, like just
Speaker 2: with a how do you call it, like with the
Speaker 2: with the bomb like pup pressure. And because I was
Speaker 2: laying in the corner like rush, it gave me that.
Speaker 2: He gave me that. He gave me that corner because
Speaker 2: it was the most safest place, he said, And he
Speaker 2: gave me that safe place. They all were under the
Speaker 2: not all of them, but like eighty percent of my friends,
Speaker 2: they who killed. Parts of bodies were everywhere. I couldn't
Speaker 2: stand because my left she had something fall on it,
Speaker 2: like the wooden a huge stick which was next to
Speaker 2: my place where I slept. It's like it falls on me,
Speaker 2: but it falls exactly on my leg and it broke
Speaker 2: my bone. And I didn't know exactly what happened, but
Speaker 2: I couldn't stand up. And when I took this like
Speaker 2: leant out and all this stuff I saw the bone,
Speaker 2: the white bone, which was like out of my chin,
Speaker 2: through the through the trousers, which I was worrying all
Speaker 2: the time, and I couldn't do anything. I started to scream,
Speaker 2: like like help, help, but I couldn't hear anyone, the lieutenant.
Speaker 2: It was a light, but wherechid wasn't I just remember
Speaker 2: Rashid's face laying just next to me, and he didn't
Speaker 2: have half of his body. It was just his head
Speaker 2: and arms and just his shoulders. And he was joking
Speaker 2: the last time. He said, Hey, why don't you marry me?
Speaker 2: You know you would be such a good couple. I'll
Speaker 2: take it to Syberia to introduced to my mom. She'd
Speaker 2: love you so much. I was laughing. I said, you
Speaker 2: said he did. I wish I would never say it
Speaker 2: to them. I wish I would say yes. I felt guilty.
Speaker 2: He cared about me, you know, not like others. He
Speaker 2: really did. He never tried to like even touch me
Speaker 2: in a way where he would like hit on me
Speaker 2: or something like, not like any other man. He was
Speaker 2: really noble.
Speaker 3: These thoughts flashed through a Lea's mind as she lay
Speaker 3: under the rabble, unable to move.
Speaker 2: Everything was like in a dream, my commander lieutenant was
Speaker 2: like screaming and calling like is anyone, is anyone anyone
Speaker 2: can hear me? And I screamed like here here, like
Speaker 2: I'm here. He came with another guys. He looked at
Speaker 2: me like like you know, like what's going like what happened?
Speaker 2: Like where depends? Like you injured?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 2: And I showed him on the leg like yes, yes,
Speaker 2: I broke my leg. They helped me from my arms
Speaker 2: to get me out. We went out from the from
Speaker 2: the base a little bit further like under the hill,
Speaker 2: and we sat over there from about like forty soldiers.
Speaker 2: There were only ten people left on the ten all
Speaker 2: these boys, the boys view like twenty three, twenty two,
Speaker 2: even twenty five, they're just little kids. They've didn't seen
Speaker 2: anything in this life. And they were killed just in
Speaker 2: front of me. They were just killed. And that that's
Speaker 2: And when you see like these young kids like dying
Speaker 2: for nothing, how do you feel like is it fair?
Speaker 2: Even like where is the justice?
Speaker 5: Why?
Speaker 2: Like what's the reason of doing that? You know, like
Speaker 2: even like it doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 3: A support team eventually showed up in a military truck
Speaker 3: along with two medics who examined a Leah.
Speaker 2: They said to Lieutenant, I mean, she's like pointless soldier
Speaker 2: right now. She can't do anything. She can't to properly.
Speaker 2: So when they started to untie the bandages, I started
Speaker 2: to scream and they gave me. I think it was
Speaker 2: more for or something like that. I don't know, because
Speaker 2: I remember that feeling. I was laying just in front
Speaker 2: of the car and I looked at the sky and
Speaker 2: the sky I remember exactly clouds and it was blue,
Speaker 2: so blue that you felt like it was like I
Speaker 2: haven't and I just closed my eyes and I like
Speaker 2: passed over, and in the car, I remember I woke
Speaker 2: up and I started to scream, and then my commander said,
Speaker 2: like relax, rest, rest, it's gone too stressed in Nicholas
Speaker 2: Mayus again.
Speaker 3: The Leah's story continues in episode eleven. If you're experiencing
Speaker 3: a post traumatic stress, mental health or suicidal crisis, you
Speaker 3: can call her text nine to eight eight for immediate support.
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Speaker 3: Crisis Line. To Die For is a production of Tenderfoot
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Speaker 3: and written by me Neil Strauss. With additional writing assistants
Speaker 3: by Tristan Bankston. Executive producers are myself, Donald Albright, and
Speaker 3: Payne Lindsay. For iHeart Podcasts, executive producers are Matt Frederick
Speaker 3: and Alex Williams. Lead producer and editor is Tristan Banks.
Speaker 3: Additional editing by Miles Clark and Christian Brown. Supervising producer
Speaker 3: Tracy Kaplan. Consultants include Nushin, Valiza day, Chelsea Gooden, and
Speaker 3: Jamie Albright. Artwork by Byron McCoy. Original music by Makeup
Speaker 3: and Vanity Set, mixed and mastered by Dayton Cole. Our
Speaker 3: theme song is Killer Shangui Law by Psychotic Beats featuring Pattiamore.
Speaker 3: Special thanks to Orren Rosenbaub and the team at Uta
Speaker 3: Beck Media and Marketing, Aarren Siegel, Becky Jensen, the Nord Group,
Speaker 3: Meredith Stedman and Alex Vespustaed