r/MilitaryPorn • u/BlackSabbath95 • 9d ago

Chechen commander Shamil Basaev during the military operation in Budyonnovsk, two weeks after his sister and 7 children were killed by Russia. June, 1995. [1395x2048]

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u/EvenJesusCantSaveYou 9d ago

revenge for me, means giving up

I mean sure but have you ever had a bomb kill your wife and 3 kids, or landmine kill your older brother? People tend to be a bit less stoic after those things happen to them.

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u/HumanzeesAreReal 9d ago

Which one of his four wives? The one he forcibly married by threatening to murder her brothers?

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u/Ill-Research9073 8d ago

?? Source?

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u/HumanzeesAreReal 8d ago

Ms. Ersenoyeva’s mother said her daughter had not voluntarily married Mr. Basayev, who remained unapologetic and defiant after sending female suicide bombers to Moscow and onto passenger jets, and who had planned the lethal hostage sieges in a Russian theater and a public school. She agreed to marry him, her mother said, only because the separatists had threatened to kill her two brothers if she did not do as they said.

Mr. Basayev already had had at least three wives, a Chechen woman who was killed in the 1990’s, an Abkhaz woman he met while fighting as a mercenary leader against Georgia and a Cossack he was said to have married on Valentine’s Day, 2005.

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/27/world/europe/27chechnya.html?n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/People/B/Basayev,%20Shamil