Episode 159 - The First Chechen War Part 1: Train Robbing Rebellion

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🗓️ 7 June 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Part 1 of our 4 part series on the first Chechen War. Throughout history Russia continues to try to subjugate Chechnya, leading to generations of war. Sources for all 4 episodes: The Oath Russia's Chechen Wars 1994-2000: Lessons from Urban Combat: Lessons from the Urban Combat Fangs of the Lone Wolf: Chechen Tactics in the Russian-Chechen War 1994-2009 One Soldier's War Allah's Mountains: The Battle for Chechnya Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys

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0:38.9	Hello, and welcome to yet another episode of The Lines Led by Donkey's Podcast. I am Joe, and with me today
1:00.4	is local Chechnya expert Nick. Yeah, I'll take the title, fuck it. What do you know about
1:09.0	Chechnya or Chechens in general? Nothing. Have you ever heard anything about Chechnya?
1:16.2	I know there was a war. You have to be more specific. I was thinking what most people probably know
1:22.4	of now other than like horrible human rights abuses, if you happen to be gay, is like MMA,
1:28.9	because MMA is fucking huge, coming out of Chechnya, and Dagestan, which is the next war.
1:34.4	Absolutely. That's where a Nurghamat office from. That's where that whole campus from.
1:39.0	They also have like child MMA fights. Didn't we watch a vice?
1:44.3	Oh, fucking. Yeah, hang on on YouTube? Yes, I think they went to Dagestan.
1:49.2	Yeah, those kids were intense. Yeah, it's also really bad for children to have them do that.
1:55.2	Kids shouldn't be taking shots to the head. Brains and stuff. But you did hit the nail on
2:00.8	the head for one of those things. A war happened there. Yeah, fuck, I'm here for it.
2:05.7	That's actually where a lot of the Western understandings of Chechnya come from.
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