Before the USSR collapsed, a friend of mine hosted an exchange student from Russia.
He informed him that the Chechens were subjected to much worse "racism" than any group here in the states got. Russian mothers would caution their children to behave or else "the Chechens will get you."
On the morning of 11SEP01, I though the attack on WTC was the most boneheaded move the Islamists could pull off. I figured then that all our efforts to stop the bloodshed in Chechenya would cease, as well as putting an end to the USA sparing the lives of Muslims in Palestine and Bosnia.
Now, for the most part, the USA has taken to the understanding that Russia's Chechen enemy is the same enemy we face in the war on terror.
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May've been the losing side. I'm still not convinved it was the wrong one.
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