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Duncan Flippo

Georgia - HISTORY - 0 views

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Georgia history post soviet nationalism

shared by Duncan Flippo on 23 Oct 11 - No Cached
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      Duncan Flippo on 23 Oct 11
       
      this says a lot about some reasons for revs and nationalism
  • In seven decades as part of the Soviet Union, Georgia maintained some cultural independence, and Georgian nationalism remained a significant--though at times muted--issue in relations with the Russians.
    • Duncan Flippo
      Duncan Flippo on 23 Oct 11
       
      Shows how georgian cultural things were not supressed as much as in bosnia and other soviet countries
  • Stalin and Lavrenti Beria, his chief of secret police from 1938 to 1953, were both Georgians
  • Duncan Flippo on 23 Oct 11
     
    this shows a lot of Georgian history including some nationalism and post soviet stuff
Caroline Yevak

Commemorating "The Deportation" in Post-Soviet Chechnya: The Role of Memorial... - 0 views

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chechen wars conflict russia

shared by Caroline Yevak on 31 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • The collapse of Communism in Eurasia has led to many events that few analysts in the West could have predicted during the Cold War. One of the most improbable of these events was the stunning military victory of the tiny autonomous republic of Chechnya in the 1994-1996 war for independence against the Russian Federation.
  • While the Chechens can officially claim to be victors in the first Russo-Chechen war of the 1990s, there was in actuality no winner in this bloody conflict. Scores of Chechen villages were destroyed, the Chechen capital of Grozny was bombed to rubble in the heaviest bombardment in Europe since the bombing of Dresden, tens of thousands of Chechens and Russians living in Chechnya lost their lives, hundreds of thousands more were made refugees, and the economy of the independent statelet of Ichkeria, as Chechnya is now known, lies in utter ruin.
  • Rather than accepting autonomy within the Russian Federation, as the Republic of Tatarstan has, for example, the Chechen people rallied behind such leaders as Dzhokhar Dudaev, Aslan Maskhadov and Shamil Basaev, and chose to fight the might of transcontinental Russia in a bitter struggle for total freedom. The heavy cost of this independence for the Chechen people has been incalculable in socioeconomic terms.
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  • If the destruction from the first post-Soviet invasion was not sufficient, the majority of the tiny Chechen RepubliCs infrastructure which was rebuilt after 1996 was totally obliterated by Russian bombing raids and artillery bombardments in late 1999 and early 2000 that surpassed even those of the previous war in their intensity.
  • the Russian government seems determined to avenge its defeat in the previous Chechen War
  • the second Chechen War has all the logic of an American invasion of Vietnam to avenge its defeat at the hands of the Viet Cong.
  • While much has been written on the Russian government's reasons for launching the second post-Soviet Chechen War
  • ndeed, historically, no ethnic group on the north Caucasus flank has had as violent a history of conflict with the Russians as the Chechens.
    • Caroline Yevak
      Caroline Yevak on 31 Oct 11
       
      Russians determined to beat Chechnya, but they lose
    • Caroline Yevak
      Caroline Yevak on 31 Oct 11
       
      Chechnya and Russia have a history of conflict-- 1st and 2nd Chechen Wars. Wars hurt both economies 
    • Caroline Yevak
      Caroline Yevak on 31 Oct 11
       
      ethnic & religious conflict (roots of conflict)
Caroline Yevak

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russia chechnya chechen wars conflict

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  • The collapse of Communism in Eurasia has led to many events that few analysts in the West could have predicted during the Cold War. One of the most improbable of these events was the stunning military victory of the tiny autonomous republic of Chechnya in the 1994-1996 war for independence against the Russian Federation.
Cole Blum

Georgia Genocide | Russian claims appear inflated - Los Angeles Times - 1 views

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shared by Cole Blum on 30 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Tskhinvali, the capital of Georgia's breakaway republic of South Ossetia, sustained heavy damage in a five-day barrage of rockets and missiles as Russian troops and their local allies battled Georgian forces, and dozens of deaths have been documented.
  • Georgia launched a military operation in South Ossetia, to bring the pro-Russian rebel region under the control of the central government.
  • Kremlin has come out heavily in support of independence for Georgia's breakaway republics, a move that would redraw the borders of the post-Soviet Caucasus region.
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    • Cole Blum
      Cole Blum on 30 Oct 11
       
      It is strange for me to hear about thousands of corpses and all of the casualties in the genocide in Georgia. I have heard of the genocide in Yugoslavia, but I have never heard of the genocide in Georgia. This leads me to believe that genocide is so common in the world today that even extreme cases sometimes go a tad under the radar.
    • Cole Blum
      Cole Blum on 30 Oct 11
       
      This quote really stood out to me when I read this article because it shows the selfishness of countries around the world. Everyone looks out for themselves, and this genocide is a perfect example of how people will turn on their own alies just because they are only looking out for themselves. This is probably why a lot of genocide occurs.
  • Shana Thomas on 30 Oct 11
     
    details about genocide; conspiracy theories.  look up Kremlin*
  • Cole Blum on 30 Oct 11
     
    Shana actually shared this.
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