<prompt> Qedela lo musho olandelayo: U-Alexander Lebed wazalelwa edolobheni lamaCossack laseNovocherkassk, eRostov Oblast, ngo-1950. Ebusheni bakhe wayengeyena umfundi omubi kodwa wayekhetha isibhakela ne-chess. Wakhulela emphakathini ompofu. Uyise wayengumbazi owagwetshwa iminyaka eyisikhombisa ekamu lokuhlushwa laseGulag ngenxa yokufika sekwephuzile emsebenzini kabili, futhi wabona  <response>: Ukubulawa kwabantu abaningi eNovocherkassk ngo-1962. Phakathi naleso sikhathi wayesebenza embonini. Wayezimisele ukuba yi-paratrooper futhi wajoyina i-Ryazan Guards Higher Airborne Command School ngo-1969, waba yi-cadet platoon kanye nomlawuli wenkampani ngenkathi elapho. Ngo-1982, njengesikhulu seSoviet Airborne Troops, uLebed waba umkhuzi webutho e-Afghanistan ngesikhathi sempi yaseSoviet lapho. Phakathi nesikhathi sakhe ese-Afghanistan, uLebed wathandwa amabutho ayewahola. Wabamba lesi sikhundla kwaze kwaba ngo-1982 lapho aye khona eFrunze Military Academy. Phakathi kwemisebenzi yakhe kwakukhona ukuba yilungu lomnyango wemingcwabo phakathi nenkathi yokufa okuningi phakathi kwe-gerontocracy yaseSoviet, kuhlanganise nababusi abathathu baseSoviet. 