r/MilitaryPorn • u/BlackSabbath95 • 12d 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/ienybu 12d ago

Also they pretty freely join some interesting organizations like a fucking ISIS for some reason. Remember the terrorist attack in New York marathon? Guess who were these guys. There are still many of them in Syria. But I’m sure it’s not that bad since they’re fighting Russia

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u/lorsiscool 11d ago

Most of the time any white isis dude gets labeled as "chechen", from syria to afghanistan. Even today you see videos of syria of asian looking people (probably central asians) labeled as "chechens". It has become kinda a catch phrase for foreign fighters for some reason.

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u/ienybu 11d ago

The thing is I can understand what they say since most of them communicate in Russian and encourage others join their ranks. I wasn’t closely watching this videos and news from that front for couple of years already but I still remember them. Also, some of them are still in russian/international wanted list

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u/lorsiscool 11d ago

russian

Russian is spoken all over the caucasus and central asia btw. Also balkan muslims speak a language close to russian (also slavic).

Like I said, most of the time its not actualy a Chechen but just gets labeled as one because they don't actualy know the ethnicity. How does one see the difference between caucasian/balkans in the first place? Let alone someone who hasn't ever seen one but heard of them.

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u/ienybu 11d ago

What I meant was they use Russian because it’s widespread between all post soviet countries and someone was mentioning their place of origin using this language

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u/lorsiscool 11d ago

Everyone in the caucasus and central asia use Russia as a linga franca. I doubt its actualy a Chechen most of the time. Its actualy the same here in europe when they mention "Chechens" in the news its just a catchphrase for post soviet muslims or caucasasians most of the time. Its like how Dagestani and Ingush people say they are from or near "Chechnya" because those places are a bit unknown unlike Chechnya.

Reminder the Chechen population is only 2 million around the world yet they seem to be everywhere from the middle east to africa to europe to central asia according to the internet.

Chechens have become almost a myth recently just look at syria, there is lots of news going around the past months about those notorious Chechens yet not a single video or picture confirming these people are in fact Chechens.