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Originally Posted by Trunks

What many people dont understand is that this land has always been a part of russia, this wasnt a part of the soviet union mind you, it was always a part of russia, and now, all of a sudden, they want to be seperate. Would any other country let a piece of it, no matter how small just break away? That would be a sign of weakness. One piece breaks away, then another peice, and pretty soon, all thats left of russia is the land around msocow. Not trying to justify either side, but i doubt these so called purgings are any different from US troops in Iraq rounding up suspected militants, and interrogating them...

You're wrong. Chechnya was never always part of russia.

[quote:70d2d]The first Russian invasion of Chechnya occurred during the time of Peter the Great, in the early eighteenth century. After a long series of fierce battles and bloody massacres, Chechnya was incorporated into Russia in the 1870s. In 1936 Soviet leader Joseph Stalin created the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Republic. In 1943, when Nazi forces reached the gates of the Chechen capital, Grozny, Chechen separatists staged a rebellion against Russian rule. In response, the next year Stalin deported more than 1 million Chechens, Ingush, and other North Caucasian peoples to Siberia and Central Asia on the pretext that they had collaborated with the Nazis. The remaining Muslim people of the Chechnya region were resettled among neighboring Christian communities. Stalin's brutal policy virtually erased Chechnya from the map, but Soviet first secretary Nikita Khrushchev permitted the Chechen and Ingush peoples to return to their homeland and restored their republic in 1957.[/quote:70d2d]


[quote:70d2d]The only autonomous jurisdictions that refused to sign the 1992 Federation Treaty were Chechnya and Tatarstan, both of which are rich in oil. [/quote:70d2d]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Chec ... n_Chechnya


Furthermore the Russian soldiers treat ther Chechens like shit. No wonder resistance is so high.[/quote]