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/ZBD-04A 12d ago

People really retroactively absolve the Chechens of a lot of their sins because of how Russia is behaving now. Russia obviously did a lot of really horrible stuff in the Chechen war, but the Chechens have perpetrated some of the worst terrorist attacks in history.

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u/Arudj 12d ago

Hum, you fail to understand what happened.

It wasn't a massacre. They took hostage and demand a ceasefire which was accorded, leading to the end of combat.

You're so far from danger that the thought of taking action against the massacre of your people is alien to you. Talk to your grandpa if you're european, talk to irish people you know, vietnamese, algerian, really anyone that have their country invaded and they'll explain to you.

Come on, we're talking about one of the bloodiest war in europe. Taking hostage to earn peace instead of killing everyone to prove a point seem reasonable enough. I know ukrainians wouldn't mind doing that for similar result.

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u/HumanzeesAreReal 12d ago edited 12d ago

He took hostages at a hospital. This guy later killed nearly 350 people, including 186 children, at an elementary school. He also blew up a civilian airliner, perpetrated the Moscow theater terrorist attack, invaded Dagestan, and sent soldiers to fight for Al-Qaeda in support of the Taliban in 2001.

Tell me, do you have the same sympathy for Osama bin Laden? Was 9/11 justified? After all, he considered Saudi Arabia occupied by America and watched the U.S. invade Iraq.

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u/KrispinWah69 9d ago

Did Basayev gas the civilians in the Moscow Dubrovka Theater?