Цинковые мальчики

Transliteration: Tsinkovye malchiki

Author

Svetlana Alexievich

Language

Russian

Year

1989

First Pub.

USSR

Genre

Biography / Memoir / Reportage

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Zinky Boys, also translated as Boys in Zinc is a 1989 documentary book by Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich about the Soviet–Afghan War. The title refers to zinc-plated coffins in which the fallen soldiers were transported home to the Soviet Union as "cargo 200". The book collected anonymous memoirs of soldiers and relatives.