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Radio War Nerd #324 — Chechen Wars, Pt. 3: The First Chechen War (Patreon)

Published:
2022-04-09 18:36:11
Edited:
2022-04-09 20:41:16
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2026-06
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Recorded: April 5, 2022

In part 3 of our Russia-Chechnya Wars series, we start with Chechnya's first declaration of independence in 1991, the long slide to war in 1994, and end with Russia's shock military defeat in August 1996, on the same day that zombie-Yeltsin was inaugurated for his second term as Russia's president.

Images:

*Original Russian invasion plan

*Grozny disaster, December 31, 1994 - Jan 3, 1995

Previous episodes on the Chechen Wars: 

*EP #321 - Intro to Chechen Wars 

*EP #322 - Chechen Wars, Part 2: 1722-1991 

Total time: 2:08:16

Direct link to this episode's mp3 here 

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Michael

1:08 Connecticut mentioned:’)

mt

I really like your collection of links to previous episodes. Please don't forget to update the main one with all the episodes and make sure it comes high up. Would be cool.

Ander Pierce

Any day graced by a new War Nerd episode is a good day

Sam Zeng

Naashvilli lol

Lionel Boyd Johnson

This was a particularly good episode, thank you Mark. As John said, it really sheds a lot of light on the current conflict. Really looking forward to the next few episodes, you guys are helping keep me sane in the middle of this full on propaganda campaign, thank you. Seems like civilians deaths aren't tragedies, they're opportunities to craft a message, it's really disgusting. I hope your brother is doing better.

Jimothy Realname

President Dudayev of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, if you're not into the whole brevity thing

OneMoreAccount

You mentioned that the demonstrators didn't storm the KGB headquaters. On the one hand that seems to be a good thing: "no violence". On the other hand: Memorial just got banned by a former KGB agent... Maybe in Russia they couldn't get rid of the old elites altogether. But I don't understand how there could be any democratic development in Russia without getting rid of the KGB elites. Another point: The whole story about "bad influence from the west" (there for sure was plenty) in my eyes doesn't suffice to explain the development Russia took. That seems way to simplistic.

Tomas

Mark wtf was that intro

BryceSprungstein

sometimes it really is kind of simple though, the west did everything possible to fuck with the elections that put Yeltsin in power and then Yeltsin put Putin on power..with all of the centralized executive powers that the west encouraged Yeltsin to take. On a broader level, the economic chaos that the west created through shock therapy is exactly the kind of economic and political situation that is perfect for 'strongmen' types.

oh no

Very illuminating, thanks for making this

j

I’ve heard reports that Russia retreated from Butscha (Ukraine) and the reports of war crimes started 3 days later,,, implying had there been bodys in the streets one could assume a more rapid response… but I’d like to not assume anything..

Mark Ames

Thanks Lionel, appreciate it.