The Second Chechen War: Inside Putin's First Invasion
Simon Whistler · March 26, 2023 · 23 min video · Europe & NATO
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Context to Putin's reign over Russia, and many of the crimes committed in his current invasion of Ukraine. In the 1990s, the Republic of Chechnya declared its independence from the Russian Federation and began an open rebellion, leading to two separate wars being fought to re integrate the region.
It was in the second of these wars that Putin was in the midst of his rise to power, and the future president was prepared to do whatever it took to show that Russia would never back down.
On December 26, 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed, bringing an end to nearly 70 years of dominion over Eastern Europe and Central Asia. From its ashes, 15 independent countries emerged, born from the former Soviet Socialist republics.
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