[PGR88]

Clearly you don’t know history and the fall of the soviet union. Look up the Chechen Islam movement and why they are autonomous today even though part of Russia.

No need to be smug.

So your assertion is that the Chechens caused the overthrow of the Soviet system? Or was it some other Islamist group / Muslim enclave? I don't recall Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika mentioning Islam.

When one "looks up" the Chechen Wars, it seems they occurred AFTER the Soviet Union fell and the Soviet Empire disintegrated. Seems more likely a result of a post-Soviet power vacuum, but am happy to listen to your explanation

Also, exactly how did Putin, who also came along after the collapse of the Soviet Union, somehow get the Chechens to behave?

Please clarify.

[for-q-clinton]

The point is Soviets knew they had an Islam issue which led to giving up autonomy to regions which led to revolt. They didn’t give “freedom” to areas because they got nice. They did it because they saw a revolt coming.

[for-q-clinton]

And the taste of Freedom let to a revolt anyway.