[RightWhale]

He is correct. There was a power vacuum in the region. Russia is still not capable of reasserting hegemony over their former sphere, which is why the US is in there. When Russia recovers, things will quiet down. Whenever that comes, which it appears the Millenium will arrive first.

[Skeeve14]

I thought it was rooted because your country forcefully removed thousands of the Chechs. to Eastern Siberia after the war. That would piss me off too.

[spanalot]

"He is correct. There was a power vacuum in the region. Russia is still not capable of reasserting hegemony over their former sphere,"

Are you serious? Russia never had control and the proof is that they had to kill 30 million to keep the Kremlin afloat.
Stalin said his war against the Ukes that fought collectivization was worse than the war against fascism.

Communism is politically bankrupt - the Chinese had to kill twice that many to survive.

[JasonC]

No, not quite. Under the Soviet Union, terrorism was state policy and happened in plush offices and urban basements across the land, as well as abroad in a hundred places, while terrorists flocked to Moscow to attend university classes on the construction of improvised bombs, hijacking, kidnapping, torture methods, etc.