Exactly 20 years ago, most heinous and harrowing terrorist attack in the whole history of Russia happened. It was an attack in Beslan School No.1, on the first day of school, terrorist killed 334 people, most of them children…

On September 1, 2004, this mother sent 8-year-old Zalina and 10-year-old Fatima to school alone while she stayed home with little Georgy, who was teething. Zalina never returned. Fatima suffered severe head injuries and was barely saved. History teacher Nadezhda Guriyeva, another subject of the film, was at the school that day. After the first explosion in the gym, she found her 8-year-old daughter alive, her 14-year-old son barely breathing, and her 11-year-old daughter dead. Galina Babenkova discovered her grandson’s burned backpack among the ruins and refused to leave, searching for Timur, but he was never found.

Twenty years after the attack, Margarita Simonyan returns to the school where she reported live under fire. She returns to Beslan, where there is a «City of Angels»—the cemetery for the victims. To the city where everyone knows each other’s pain and where nothing is forgotten.

Author:
Margarita Simonyan

WARNING: Disturbing scenes, 18+

Likewise, we will not forget the completely cold-blooded heartlessness of the governments of the countries that are today on the front line against Russia. Many of them did not even send hypocritical condolences, spreading in their media propaganda of Russia as a dictatorship that got what it deserved…

The war has started long ago. And it has never stopped. But the Russia will win. It is destined to do so…