Well, you're not going to get it, Comrade.
Posted on 09/05/2022 3:12:03 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
Mansur was 13 when Russian soldiers destroyed his village of Samashki during Chechnya's first war for independence against Russia.
Wielding flamethrowers, the Russians burned Mansur's neighbors alive in their homes, threw grenades into basements and executed men. Four years later, a truce disintegrated, and Mansur was back at war. He says he was never the same after.
"Russia ruined everything I had. I grew up with war, and the war shaped me in all respects," Mansur, 40, says matter-of-factly.
Mansur is one of more than 200,000 Chechens who fled to Turkey and Europe throughout the 2000s during a second war between Russian federal forces and fighters in Chechnya, a republic in far southern Russia.
Leaving his home didn't mean giving up on his fight against Russia. "If I had been born in America or Canada, I wouldn't come here to Ukraine. But because Russia took everything from me, I have to resist. Nothing else matters," Mansur says.
Today, Mansur is the deputy commander of the Sheikh Mansur Battalion (no relation), one of at least two all-Chechen battalions fighting in Ukraine against Russia. These Chechens are among the 20,000 foreign fighters that the Ukrainian government estimated to have joined its forces as of early March, near the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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Are you seriously this retarded? You’re calling a real American vet a comrade? As a Canadian infantry vet, this pisses me off. You’re some basment dwelling little puke. Why aren’t you over there volunteering?
Just another coward on his keyboard.
I commented on that too. Tired of these pieces of crap.
The Chechens that escaped back then were most likely Islamic terrorist families before the wrath of Russia came down on them for the Beslan school massacre.
Yes.
As a Canadian infantry vet, this pisses me off.
You'll get over it.
Nah, I’d like an in person apology. I don’t think you realize the extent of your depravity.
I agree. What is NWO trash doing on here anyway, besides spreading leftist propaganda?
Seems there’s two type of Chechens in Ukraine:
Chechnya’s leader tells Putin to ‘shut your eyes to everything’ and let military commanders unleash a blitzkrieg of savagery in Ukraine and ‘finish it all in a day or two’
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4043713/posts
Well, you're not going to get it, Comrade.
The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue.”
Mao
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Exactly what Vlad is doing, the Ukies have had not one “ offensive “ or territorial gain yet. Vlad’s cauldrons are already being written into NATO’s textbooks.
Meet the other Chechens fighting with Russia and the independent Republics
Some of the world’s best Special Ops forces (won a world competition in Jordan)
They kicked butt in Mariupol in urban warfare, and are now just rotated and working the Bakhmut sector to replace Wagner PMC which is going on rest and rotation
Tough bastards.
Hate nazis and islamist radicals, those they refer to as ‘ shaitans’’, the ones fighting for Ukraine
So on top of everything else, there’s now a tribal war?
Great......
Any vet who supports putin us a “comrade”
What do you have? We are all on equal footing here. Make an argument and defend it, that’s how it works.
“...good chechens?”
Chechens are a real good group to be proud of and proud to support. In 1995, four years after they separated from Russia and armed conflicts continued, Shamil Basayev and around 200 separatists attacked the southern Russian city of Budyonnovsk (pop. 60,000, often spelled Budennovsk), some 110 kilometers (70 mi) north of the border with the de facto independent Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.
Basayev’s men crossed into Stavropol Krai concealed in a column of military trucks. At about noon on 14 June, they stormed the main police station and the city hall, where they raised Chechen flags over government offices.
After several hours, in the face of Russian reinforcements, the Chechens retreated to the residential district and regrouped in the city hospital. There they took hostage between 1,500 and 1,800 people (some estimates reaching as high as 2,000 or even 2,500), most of them civilians (including about 150 children and a number of women with newborn infants). On their way to the hospital, they shot 100 civilians that refused to cooperate. Basayev issued an ultimatum, threatening to kill the hostages unless his demands were met.
After three days of siege, the Russian authorities ordered the security forces to retake the hospital compound. The forces employed were MVD police (”militsiya”) and Internal Troops, along with spetsnaz (special forces) from the Federal Security Service (FSB), including the elite Alpha Group. The strike force attacked the hospital compound at dawn on the fourth day, meeting fierce resistance. After several hours of fighting in which many hostages were killed, a local ceasefire was agreed on and 227 hostages were released; 61 others were freed by the Russian troops.
The Russian authorities accused the Chechens of using the hostages as human shields. Yeltsin’s human rights advisor Sergey Kovalyov described the scene: “In half an hour the hospital was burning, and it was not until the next morning that we found out what happened there as a result of this shooting. I saw with my own eyes pieces of human flesh stuck to the walls and the ceiling and burned corpses”.
That’s not war, that’s slaughter. And these are the guys they are happy to have join them as the ones now act the same and use the same tactics. You won’t see their work on the 11 o’clock news. And we have sent millions of dollars of military support and toys for them to do this type of work? And everyone hates a terrorists. Not the US. The Ukrainians chose to separate from Soviet Russia in 1991 as did Chechnya. The war to get the Ukraine back has been in existence full scale since 2014. That’s only eight years ago and is no difference than a state openly defying the US with armed conflict. We never should have been there.
Wy69
One can be against Ukraine and not support anyone else even. One can want to mind one’s business without being pro Putin. One can be more concerned about their local situation. Alberta first. America first, etc.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4087091/posts?page=72#72
A true lump of NWO ordure.
Another one of the NWO Brigade around here.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4087091/posts?page=72#72
Oh yeah, FreshPimp also looks down his nose on white, native-born Americans.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4072813/posts?page=85#85
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