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Originally Posted by Mike Brewer
Dick,
Have you read the book "Blowing Up Russia?" It's by Alexsander Litvienko and Yuri Feltshtinski. Yes, the same Litvienko that was poisoned by the Russian government for revealing secrets...
The book provides some substantiated opinion that Russia engineered the invasion of Grozny specifically to be a loss. It could be the same kind of conspiracy nutball stuff as those who say the US planned 9-11 against itself, but it also might have some credibility. It's worth a look.
Did you know that 14 of the tank crews sent into Grozny were specifically crewed with Chechen soldiers? Russia sent those tanks into Chechnya knowing they could not accomplish the primary goal (ostensibly) of capturing or disarming Dudaev's army, so the speculation is that the Russian government sent Chechens in to fight Chechens knowing they'd get wiped out and a war would be more justifiable in the eyes of the people.
I think it's exactly your kind of book, man. You should go pick up a copy.
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thats pretty interesting mike. i hadnt heard about that incident before, however it was widely speculated that the apartment bombings that killed 300 in russia, which was blamed on chechen rebels and used as justification for the second war of chechnya, was also devised by russian intelligence in order to win public opinion in favor of invading chechnya again.
what happened, and is still happening in chechnya is like the lost horror of the world. unspeakable crimes have been and are being committed in that region, and nobody even knows about it or cares.
the government of russia is one of the cruelest and most corrupt.