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2003-09-02 Caucasus

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-09-02 12:52|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The Russians have been hammering on Chechnya for only 300 years or so. Before them were others hundreds of years before the Russians. In WW2, Stalin evacuated the whole population to Siberia. The Chechens are tribal and hate the Russians and their heavy handed traditions. The Russians have defined the word "Quagmire" by their ops in Chechnya.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-9-2 2:03:25 PM|| 2003-9-2 2:03:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 The Chechens are tribal and hate the Russians and their heavy handed traditions

They are also fond of chopping heads off. Russian brutality was a response to the way Chechens deal with Russian POWs. But of course nobody talks about Chechen barbarism, it's always the big bad heartless Russians.

Posted by Rafael 2003-9-2 2:13:35 PM|| 2003-9-2 2:13:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Rafael---my point in the post was that the Chechens have been living in this brutal existence for centuries. So, like the Russians, brutality has been acquired over a long time. Sorry I was not so clear.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-9-2 3:13:48 PM|| 2003-9-2 3:13:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 What is in Chechnya that the Russians want? If I were auditioning cultures for possible citizenship, I think I would have gonged the Chechnyans. The Czars could have bummed the plans for Hadrians wall off the Pope for some cash.

Posted by Super Hose 2003-9-2 8:18:29 PM|| 2003-9-2 8:18:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 What is in Chechnya that the Russians want?

Oil, natural gas (seriously). But more importantly, if Chechnya went their independant way, that would give all the other semi-autonomous or autonomous regions ideas of their own for independence. Remember the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)? It was also known as the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. There were some 12+ such republics in the Soviet Union (I don't know the actual number without checking an old atlas) who would probably like to cut the Moscovite umbilical cord.

Posted by Rafael 2003-9-2 8:40:08 PM|| 2003-9-2 8:40:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Kinda like those pesky folks at Fort Sumpter

Posted by Not Mike Moore 2003-9-2 10:12:41 PM|| 2003-9-2 10:12:41 PM|| Front Page Top

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