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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They are ALL @$$holes, both sides.
Look like religion of (not) peace adherents.
The time for Chechen independence is now! Strike while Russia is weak!
Not only Chechnya and occupied Georgia, but also the oil rich provinces that have been dominated and exploited by Moscow, for too long.
Wow. Not an American. Needs to be deported back to whatever crap hole south American country it crawled out of.
Call me whatever, but you don’t get to try and push around my American brothers in arms without a swift reprimand, or better yet, a personal one.
Yes very disappointed in what has become of my race.
Reads like a fag BLM organizer.
Well said! :)
Yep had my roofer friend do a small job for me. Only hires amish to help him. Cant find anyone who isnt on dope and wants to work. Btw tear off. Two squares. $1200.
“Any vet who supports putin us a “comrade””
I believe that I heard that John Kerry served in Vietnam...
Yep. I bet those who are offended by someone who served being called comrade would gleefully use it against him. Hypocrites
Muzzies fighting muzzies in support of Christians?
Problematic.
And the Russians remember Beslan
Yep. Foreigner who hates white people. Kind of like Obama.
Just one more leftist troll polluting this forum.
Yep. Just like the racist, leftist bots who slither all over Twitter.
Yeah, I've burned my last Twitter account. I can look at The Sewer with nitter.net and see what I want to see without their "sign up!" nagware bugging me or blocking me.
Agreed.
That particular village is as tactically significant as Popasna in the Donbas. As you can see it is the local high ground and provides artillery observation for a great distance in otherwise flat countryside. Thats why the Russians put a whole Special Forces Brigade there.
And for this reason, no army in history has ever managed to attack and take ground from a defender. Therefore all of military and political history is a massive lie.
And Mao never managed to attack anyone either, the “we attack” part of the quote is an obvious commie lie. The successors of Chiang still control China, because the defensive is so overpowering.
Or, uh, you might want to sort out your arguments here.
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