How Russia Won the Second Chechen War - Modern History DOCUMENTARY

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Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on the history of modern warfare continues with a video explaining how Russia won the Second Chechen War. Previously, we have talked about how Russian lost the First Chechen war ( • How Russia Lost the Fi... ).
The Second Chechen War, a brutal conflict that shook Russia and Chechnya, altered the course of history in the North Caucasus. This video delves into the intricate details surrounding the war, from its origins to its aftermath.
Beginning with the aftermath of the First Chechen War, marked by the devastation of Chechnya's infrastructure and the rise of armed militias, the video explores the complex political landscape that paved the way for the second conflict. It discusses the rise of fundamentalist groups and the deteriorating situation in Chechnya, culminating in the incursion into Dagestan and the subsequent bombings in Russia.
The video analyzes the motives behind Russian involvement in the war, both on a personal and national level, highlighting the political ambitions of figures like Vladimir Putin and Russia's strategic interests in maintaining control over Chechnya to prevent further destabilization within its borders.
Moving on to the start of the war, the video details the military operations launched by the Russian army, including the siege of Grozny, and the fierce resistance put up by Chechen fighters. It examines the strategic maneuvers employed by both sides and the devastating impact of the conflict on civilians caught in the crossfire.
As the war progressed, the video narrates the shifting dynamics within Chechnya, including the co-optation of key Chechen leaders by the Russian government and the gradual decline of the pro-independence movement. It also explores the long-term consequences of the war, including the consolidation of power under figures like Ramzan Kadyrov and the ongoing tensions between Russian nationalists and Chechen authorities.
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00:00 Intro
02:09 Background
04:33 Explosions in Russia
08:43 Beginning of the Second Chechen War
11:12 Ground War, Siege of Grozny
16:27 Aftermath and conclusion
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[@KingsandGenerals]

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[@death-istic9586]

Love your videos!💚

[@user-fy8bz5lj8i]

great vid,could you do one on the 2021 taliban offensive that lead to them re conquering afghanistan?

[@MicaiahBaron]

You did, indeed, go too far. Fate Stalin is cursed. :P

[@fodotdk]

Ha, been using Opera since 1.5 🙂

[@Something-tz2vw]

Love your videos! God bless Russia and her president ❤

[@auritrodcaprio6337]

You should have showed captured parts of Chechnya, during the war, with a different colour. Honestly it was a little confusing.

[@ibrasal704]

He is saving ink

[@timmccarthy9917]

Valid, but perhaps a war with so much asymmetric/guerrilla warfare is hard to show using battle lines. Perhaps it made more sense in this case to demonstrate where troops were, without assuming they controlled territory completely.

[@auritrodcaprio6337]

@@timmccarthy9917 I agree with you but still then it was not impossible. In areas which were confusing he could have put the colour of both rebel and Russian territory in the criss cross. Anyway we all must agree this video was highly informative.

[@Vatsyayana87]

I dont think there were "captured" parts. It was likely done just like they attempted in Ukraine. Drive on the roads to the capital, take it and make the country give up by losing hope. There doesnt seem to have ever been a "front line", just a city to fight over and random guerilla attacks anywhere.

[@thesixth2330]

I have been waiting for this since the video for the First Chechen War! Thanks!!!

[@Booz2010]

Never Say NEVER 😎 Justin Bieber

[@pastellight8573]

I am Chechen, so far none has so precisely and absolutely correctly described and explained from point a to point z the two wars . Thank you .

[@user-ff8tt8ep6t]

Thanks a lot for this video

[@peaceofmind5515]

Actually, every video shows the side of their favorite party, like this video, they shown us western world thinking about Chechan war but what about Russians point of view about this war? Can you guarantee that western block (Europe, US and Canada, Australia) did everything right, when they invade or attack any country? I am not saying that Russia is innocent or Western block is bad. I mean to say that never trust one sided story. We must listen both sides then we can use our own brains to reach the result

[@Victor-ny6nl]

Да, ты прав, если речь идёт про информацию, которую нам принёс человек, но мы свидетели всего происходящего. Ты, скорее всего скажешь это и про Украину, хотя можешь наблюдать как умирает солдат или гражданский в прямом эфире. Но ты будешь требовать две сторону мнения о происходящим 🤦

[@markusmeldre]

one of the deadliest wars since WW2 when measuring by per capita deaths.

[@Bibinjeustasa]

I think Croatia, kosovo and Bosnia take that.

[@Randomguy-wy4xi]

@@Bibinjeustasa Both Chechen wars overall killed 200,000+ people. The Yugoslav Wars killed 140,000 people in total. There is a reason why the Caucasus is the Balkans on steroids.

[@markusmeldre]

@@BibinjeustasaBosnia had 2% of its population killed in the war and it was the highest in Former Yugoslavia. Chechnya had 16-17% of its population killed in the two wars so not even close.

[@1Jundallah1]

@@Bibinjeustasa Bro slept through school

[@4evermarx]

Grozny was the most destroyed city in the world year 2000.😢

[@eliteplier]

Chechnya is very forgotten these days despite beeing so important for the rise of Putin.

[@brandonlyon730]

Also paints him as a hypocrite when he yells at the Ukraine government about the Donbas.

[@aleksandrs1422]

Forgotten? Chechnya features more prominently in the western media than almost any of the 90+ Russian regions despite having a relatively small population

[@narakumar3175]

@@aleksandrs1422 same reason it features in the uploaders channel now

[@Saddam_al-Husseini]

@@aleksandrs1422 I think he means in comparison to the modern war on terror such as in Afghanistan and Iraq. This was almost like a proto-war on terror for the Russians, with the military fighting Islamic fundamentalists aligned to al-Qaeda (with al-Khattab being Saudi) and dealing with guerrilla warfare in the mountains of the Caucasus.

[@tripsaplenty1227]

because the Chechen people lost their nerve and lick putin's boots now like whipped dogs.

[@wiktorberski9272]

Really thank you very much for this video.

[@wretchedegg2208]

Great content as always. Would like to see videos about the Yugoslav wars from 1991 - 2001

[@alenkadric635]

Agreed Yugoslav wars must be covered

[@YeeeeGreg]

That would be really cool to see them cover that

[@imperfectclark]

This

[@chokac1]

Been there, not funny..

[@johnboxler8989]

Great video. Thanks

[@casualsender2316]

I was waiting for this for a month!

[@woahblackbetty7691]

Putin bombs his own buildings to gain public support for war. The CIA: "Write that down"

[@seamus4055]

Lol

[@tavarix5893]

Traitors blew Moscow. Chechen bandits had ties with oligarchs and even the FSB, just look at Raduyev and Berezovinsky ties. That was agravated because part of the reasonable officers of the security agencies resigned in protest to Yeltsin's incompetence in the 90s, that includes Gennady Zaitsev from Alfa. It may be true that the FSB helped, it is not that it was a Putin plan, specially because he was responsible for the FSB reforms of 1998 that brought Alfa and Vympel back from the MVD. Livtnenko is just an asshurt mf who wrote a fiction book after he lost his corruption scheme.

[@victorsamsung2921]

It does seem like the US and Britain trying to spin their own faults on others, like accusing Russia of doing what they do themselves.

[@sonislife1981]

It's Bangladeshi Village Politics. 😭🙏

[@RisusShorts]

Delusional

[@MysticChronicles712]

Great work on the video and information!

[@ShadrachHowie]

good job on content and video

[@daniabelooussov9495]

Thank you for your videos, but as a request, would it be possible to paint the parts of Chechnya that where invaded a different colour? Thank you

[@jack.jpg247]

With the exception of the land north of the Terek, I don't think this is a conflict which had clear lines of demarcation between Russian and Chechen forces. Chechen forces were simply too dispersed, too disorganized, and too factionalized, to claim that they had a frontline with the Russian forces for the Russians to overcome and occupy the land behind. This was a conflict fought according to the status of each town, or hill, or valley, wherever it was in which there were some Chechen forces offering resistance, such as in the conflicts in Afghanistan or Vietnam.

[@W4emTP]

@@jack.jpg247i aont readin allat

[@user-tg9qi8wk4g]

Make please more videos about Russian-Chechen wars and in general about Chechens. It was really interesting and thanks for this

[@user-ff8tt8ep6t]

It’s very interesting video. Thanks for this.

[@BigSkull148]

“Won” is a very strong word for this. Rather, Russia “bought” Chechnya. But despite all the bright pictures from Grozny on TV, the people there are very poor. Also, many people had relatives who died in that war, and they hate the Kadyrov clan and his loyalists.

[@seamus4055]

And Kadyrov bought many goons. However, Chechens males are being forced to fight in Ukraine and those who speak against his tyranny get tortured in jail. The guy made up totally fake verses 'from Quran' whilst giving to say war in Ukraine is Holy 🤡🤦‍♂️ Looks to be in bad health as well. When Putin dies, there'll be chaos. Many ethnic Russian generals also dislike Kadirov as they believe he has too much power now

[@jordanpdoesstuff1688]

No, they won, they bought Chechnya with bombs

[@asmo1313]

What up with that pig these days anyway? he seems to be out of the news since that little failed coup last year

[@user-wp9gy7pe2d]

Says someone not living in Russia.

[@BigSkull148]

​@@user-wp9gy7pe2dWell, to tell the truth, I lived in Salekhard, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, for about 7 years before I left for my native Zaporizhzhya. So, I am quite aware of the Russian Federation and the situation there. I was also in Orel, Belgorod and Moscow.

[@redrusski7180]

16:14 The placement of the village is wrong. The village today is called Goi-Chu and is located south-east of Urus-martan. The indicated village had the same name but a completely different one.

[@samuelpittman9232]

Anime Washington and Stalin is both the best and absolute worst thing I’ve seen all day

[@hectorvega621]

Stalin one was not what I expected. Worse he was made into a flat-chested character, like wtf. At least Washington is a bit normal. Honestly I think I rather have FGO deal with historical figures than other random games.

[@NicoBabyman1]

If you’re referring to something in this video, could you please share me a timestamp so I can understand what dafaq y’all talking about?

[@hectorvega621]

@@NicoBabyman1 it was under the ad they we're making.

[@grixass1]

Thanks very much for telling this story now, for English and international audiences

[@SA2004YG]

This information has been out there for a long time for anyone who cared to look

[@grixass1]

i knew but most dont @@SA2004YG

[@achmaddmitri9090]

Why there is no details about russian turret tank that cant aimed above 45 deg where chechen fighter use anti tank from high building

[@Fortress_mentality]

Excellent touch with the background music 🤙

[@samisainio7468]

Russian /Georgian conflict in 2009 would be ideal video in this channel.

[@Inuver2]

Correction: in 2008

[@freeman4899]

@@Inuver2 8/8/8.

[@Saddam_al-Husseini]

Yeah this was kinda like the main precusor to the war in Ukraine (apart from the Donbas war). Russia literally invaded Georgian territory wayy past the separatist lines, mainly because Putin wanted to overthrow Georgia’s pro-Western government (much like he wanted to in Ukraine). It seems minimal now in comparison to the ongoing conflict but it was very significant, I think it happened during the Beijing Olympics as well 🇨🇳

[@WillMasters]

The map left a lot to be desired regarding which parties controlled which areas during the successive phases of the war. Otherwise very informative.

[@marioverde7267]

The Chechens fought in a "partisan war" format, so the Russian army did not control all the terrain it advanced.

[@aleksandrs1422]

As a Russian, a great and detailed take for a Western source. The apartment bombing truther stuff is a bit too prominent for my taste, but not unexpected. I understand the appeal that such conspiracy theories have for military historians especially when it comes to foreign countries. The democracy part was a bit unexpected. "Hard to believe russia had democracy", "Putin destroyed democracy", stuff like that. As if democracy is a perk that you instantly loose because some authority says so and not more of a complex score-like thing that you can try to evaluate based on a huge multitude of factors that's also hard to be impartial about. Something more like a spectrum. (On a side note seems that in the West you might have a problem figuring out what's binary and what's a spectrum recently, no offense). Sounded almost like we've switched from being something like Sweden to becoming Putin's Saudi Arabia. Not the case. I would also expect somebody who's interested in detailed looks at recent conflicts around the globe to be a wee bit sceptical with the way democracy status is being used as a bludgeon by Western countries against foreign nations. Whatever, don't take that to mean the video's not good, it's great. Love you guys, have a like and sub, thanks

[@robertclive491]

Piss off Russian.

[@burningphoneix]

Democracy is when Western Powers rig elections so THEIR guy wins (is, Yeltsin's second term)

[@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts]

You're certainly right about democracy being a complicated, hard to pin down thing. Frankly, no human ruler is equipped to govern, "It does not belong to man who is walking even to direct his steps" as the Bible says. We look forward to the day Jesus Christ will rule over God's kingdom, over every person and all the earth. Thy kingdom come.

[@MsZeeZed]

06:50 - that’s the late Gen Lebed, who died in an aircraft accident a few years later.

[@ansur9556]

"Accident"

[@Balkanlegija]

When do you portray the Balkan wars from 1991 to 1995?

[@vg.eternal9773]

“We went to far” 💀💀 small understatement

[@ForelliBoy]

"If you can't beat them, BUY them" - Putin

[@benjaminbritsch1749]

but who tricked who in the long run?

[@Whiteruthenian]

Yeah, but he was able to buy only a part of one generation. I suspect we will see independent Chechnya in our lifetimes.

[@serbiserbiev2560]

Akhmat kadyrov was a KGB worker before the war

[@mane771000]

@@Whiteruthenian buy? We aren't bought anyone, we have a deal, you live as you wish on ur territory, but recognize Russian sovereignty over ur land in exchange. The only reason why Russia need Chechnya is bc Chechnya us instable region, without our presents it will be an anarchy + terrorism, we don't really need their land, we need security on our borders.

[@mnd7381]

@@Whiteruthenian not so easy lol

[@Dan19870]

Can't wait to see your coverage of the South Ossetian War.

[@gigachaduneli1121]

There is no south ossetia war. Russian invasion of georgia.

[@user-dw3kl5mh8n]

@@gigachaduneli1121 То есть ты отказываешь в существование целому народу? Тогда ты злобный нацист, приедь в Цхинвал и посмотри есть там Осетины или нет. Но ты этого не сделаешь ты диванный эксперд который ничего из себя не представляет

[@user-xe6sg2or8d]

​@@user-dw3kl5mh8n он не назьІвал етот етнос несуществующим, он сказал именно про войну и вторжение рф в Грузию

[@tejawijaya4638]

Hello man, can you share name background songs on this video? Thats song is great, thx ❤ 16:43

[@danrook5757]

Is there a part 🔥 3 coming

[@bilgturksoy3296]

Please, make a video on 2nd Karabakh war

[@shmuelshamilov9680]

My family were Chechen Jews, they had left only a couple of years before the war to America. When we went back, my grandparents started crying when they saw Grozny, everything was gone.

[@armor1233]

chechen jews??? you mean russian jew, never met a jewish chechen as a chechen myself, what are u saying???

[@TheAxeter]

​@@armor1233 So because you haven't met a Chechen jew they dont exist or what?

[@shmuelshamilov9680]

They do exist, my family has lived in Dagestan/Chechnya for hundreds (likely a thousand years) of years, they were originally Persian Jews, who had ended up there. Most of them left towards the end of the Soviet Union, usually to Israel or America. @@armor1233

[@shmuelshamilov9680]

@@armor1233Yes they do exist, my family has lived in Dagestan/Chechnya for hundreds of years. The Jewish population goes back over a thousand years there, as they were taken from Israel to the Caucasus mountains, as border guards by the Persian Empires. The community used to be quite big, but they pretty much all left toward the end of the Soviet Union.

[@shmuelshamilov9680]

Also, I don’t necessarily consider myself Chechen, but I technically am, it’s very complicated mix of ethnicity/nationality/culture/religion.

[@Terloyev]

'Shamil Basayev, the guerrilla commander holding hundreds of hostages in a hospital in southern Russia, inherited a long and proud ancestral tradition of suicidal resistance to invaders of his native Chechnya. Central to that tradition was the Basayev family’s two-story stone house--built in the year 1010 and now reportedly destroyed by Russian bombs--in the mountain village of Vedeno. In its defense, one Basayev ancestor fought the 14th-Century Central Asian warlord Tamerlane. A great-great-great-grandfather died in wartime service as a deputy to Imam Shamil, for whom Shamil Basayev was named. The imam fought to create an independent Islamic state, held off the czar’s army for four decades and made a last stand at Vedeno before surrendering in 1859. A great-grandfather was killed fighting the Bolshevik army, and his son died when Soviet dictator Josef Stalin deported 800,000 Chechens to Kazakhstan and Siberia in cattle cars in 1944. “If the Russians come in here and take our home, what’s the point of living?” Shamil Basayev’s father, Suleyman, asked a visitor to the stone house last winter after the Russian army had again invaded Chechnya to crush its latest drive for independence. Tragedy befell the Basayev household in a Russian air raid late in May. And after losing his village, his home, his mother, two children, a brother, a sister and six other kin, Basayev did last week what no ancestor--and no other Chechen warrior--had ever done.' A snippet from the Los Angeles Times by Richard Boudreaux.

[@Guras_bumhole]

The los Angeles Times lol I wonder if they are bias.

[@zunkhoy]

@@Guras_bumholeRather take russian sources, definitely not bias. Am i right, Ivan?

[@Guras_bumhole]

@@zunkhoy I wouldn't know because russia today isn't available in my country anymore, it's almost like they're trying to hide something.

[@PlumbuM871]

@@zunkhoy не совсем. Когда Басаев захватил детей и женщин в больнице, он перестал быть лидером сопротивления и мужчиной. Он сам поставил себя вне любого закона и любой морали. Ну может быть хотя бы сейчас он может насладиться 72 гуриями в раю, хотя вряд ли он получит полное удовольствие от этого без одной ноги

[@zunkhoy]

@@PlumbuM871 Samashki, Novye-Aldi, Khaibakh, Komsomoylske, Alkhan-Yurt, Staropromyslovsky and many more we remember, what Basaev did is nothing in comparison. Shamil Basaev is a hero and will always be remembered as one.

[@backseatgamer7367]

I've never been scared of people finding me... I'm scared of what I'd do to people that find me...

[@nodoendeladze9877]

It will be great if you make video about russia-georgia war 1991-2008

[@historyisthebestmyfans2094]

Russia had a massive advantage in troops (estimated 100,000+ at its peak), armor, aircraft, artillery, and firepower over Chechen rebel forces. Russian forces also engaged in scorched earth tactics, leveling Grozny and other cities suspected of harboring rebels. Heavy bombardments broke rebel will to fight.

[@oleksandrshymanskyi1129]

cause that's the only way these orcs can fight

[@user-nk1re1mf6o]

The Americans in Iraq are different

[@user-vy1rb8iv9j]

@@oleksandrshymanskyi1129 привет, какел

[@pirtey5472]

@@oleksandrshymanskyi1129 salty much? Jewkraine aint winning

[@markbudaden110]

​@@user-nk1re1mf6oyes they targeted Civilians especially women and children

[@Era_Of_Awakening]

"On its surface, history is nothing more than information, but deep down there is exploration and investigation" -Ibn Khaldun

[@alfrancisbuada2591]

Do other more obscure wars!

[@dmitrikulkevicius9161]

According to Kadyrov, 300,000 of Chechen citizens died in both wars.

[@barryirlandi4217]

Not that he tells the truth often

[@dmitrikulkevicius9161]

@@barryirlandi4217 Even if he is lying, ruZZians are too afraid to say anything against him, otherwise they will be visited by the "Czar" bodyguards of the Caucuses.

[@FF-le3ps]

@@dmitrikulkevicius9161your forgetting that kadyrov isnt ever going to do against the kremlin, him and his bozo dad chose to betray the Muslims of Chechnya, when the Russian federation weakens, kadyrov will run to the kremlin ever more so

[@user-ff8tt8ep6t]

@@barryirlandi4217same says the prime minister in exile Akhmed Zakaev

[@LP-pi7uz]

And he is now proud Russian loyalist.... It's true that Russia keeps minorities "in check" by buying off their leaders. That happened with Poles, same is now with Chechens.

[@marleyplumb4562]

That was really strange choice of music for the Siege of Grozniy.

[@aleksandrs1422]

As a Russian, I liked it. Instead I think the "hard to believe russia had democrany", "Putin destroyed democracy" stuff spoiled the thing a bit.

[@Zubair-Khan]

if Independence of Chechens was regarded by world power they might be not in situation right now in Ukraine

[@Inuver2]

Well, Chechens could win more support from the west if they didn't make and commit all those beheading and hostage kidnapping videos. Hard to support something like that

[@dap4cemd0m1nepax5]

It would be nice to see what you're talking about in the map. The speaker talks about some areas being fought for or captured but I see nothing that demonstrates the progress of the forces or places lost. Idk maybe it's just me.

[@rikardstenberg730]

Does someone know the song at 14:40? I have been trying to find it for so long.

[@tejawijaya4638]

Me too, i dont know name song until now

[@dikko9729]

The war that restored Russia's confidence

[@debilman9065]

My confidence to play in ranked match would also be restored after winning in a bot lobby

[@evancawley3236]

Can you imagine siding with the person who killed your father

[@Booz2010]

MONEY Talks 👀💯

[@aleksandrs1422]

You must have misheard it. If you mean Kadyrov's father, he is a Hero of Russia and units fighting in Ukraine as well as stadiums and military vehicles are named after the guy. He was killed by Ichkeria khalifate radicals. They're Al Quaeda/IS types the West supported all the way up to 9/11.

[@Meraqueen-vb5hn]

Wtf, you didn't understand what he's saying, his father was killed other part

[@mukwanatimothy6426]

i thought you were listening

[@MrTryAnotherOne]

You forgot to mention that General Lebed died in a helicopter crash a couple of months later.

[@larisssa9471]

A funny thing was that some ministers started talking about the blown up buildings before it happened. There was a miscommunication and they were told that it already happened and of course they had prepared their speech and were before the explosion talking about it. That is something that tells you that it was them behind it.

[@ShortReviewerRetroGames]

When adviika video coming

[@Sarat-T]

Bags contained sugar 🤪 Yes comrade commissar 😂

[@user-nk1re1mf6o]

A bomb was planted under the twin towers. Yes, in the name of democracy.

[@SS-gq9iz]

Thank you

[@Lalalala22537]

You didn't yet make a video on the Mitanni Kingdom

[@JangianTV]

Was Valery the Interior Decorator involved in this conflict?

[@kaaremal-darra9200]

I think he was Czechoslovakian

[@vbcountryboy]

So Putin blew up his own people to get in power. Then he and Patrushev robbed Russia blind. Putin divorced his wife for a 17yr old he impregnated out of marriage yet he saves traditional values. Half of Russias rich kids live in west enjoying Russian money. Now they invade a country formerly that helped them in WW2. What a nasty place Russia has become. Only friend is China to which “all borders are open” Russki Mir = Russians slaving for China.

[@redacted7060]

You're clearly delusional

[@adaw2d3222]

This video is way too short for a war like this.

[@blakesblake5663]

I find it crazy how the majourity of us in the West have never heard of this war or been exposed to it! Great vid

[@scottkakson]

please make video on russo-georgian war

[@imperfectclark]

The Caucasus, in general, is incredibly diverse (going back millennia)... The only constant seems to be Russia hurling men and equipment down there when the politics are "right"

[@pootisengage6672]

Sounds like gringo filth with latin america

[@Terloyev]

The Nakh people (Ghalghai and Nohchi), including a few Adyghe and Georgian tribes, are the sole indigenous people of this land. The Caucasus has always been a geopolitically strategic region throughout history.

[@imperfectclark]

@@Terloyev Well said. Thank you for this insight... there is so much unknown to me still (Western education)

[@chaosXP3RT]

Why do some countries like Transnistria and Crimea deserve independence, but other countries like Chechnyia don't?

[@marccan3267]

Good question for pro-RuSSians👍

[@newconqueror2305]

well transnistria and crimea are not independant but under russian control

[@giorgijioshvili9713]

@@newconqueror2305 they declared independence and russia supported there "choice" but for Chechnya they made wrong choice

[@newconqueror2305]

@@giorgijioshvili9713 yeah supported by standing their shitty army 👍🏼

[@giorgijioshvili9713]

@@newconqueror2305 that would be russia :)

[@M4DD4WG]

are those tow missile tubes at 4:32?

[@BlitzFromBehind]

No.

[@G.A.C_Preserve]

The Second Chechen War is a Perfect example of "If you want peace then prepare for war" The Chechen were caught lacking and the Russian won, that's why

[@albertofrankdiaz6664]

even if they prepare, they would still lost, putin is no yeltsin

[@pll3827]

All the infighting and especially those ill-conceived pushes into other territories does create the impression that the Chechens got high on their own supply after beating the Russians the first time.

[@G.A.C_Preserve]

@@albertofrankdiaz6664 Putin is just an frightened old man, the real problems here are the military Corruption doesn't seem to be much back then (or at least not enough to affect the effectiveness of the Russian military) But 80k Troops aren't much, it can be defeated with the right tools

[@albertofrankdiaz6664]

@@G.A.C_Preserve if 80k dont be enough, 80k more will do, look ukraine, putin would send more men until the chechen leader rest underground. pd; 80k is not much? with 10k-15k in the other side? ok napoleon, whatever you said

[@kaiservon2936]

Bro the Chechens literally started the war, like regardless of whether the bombings were false flags or not they invaded Dagestan

[@Barbarossa095]

4:07 They went to help the Dagestanis when they asked them. and the Dagestanis abandoned the Chechens as usual 🤷‍♂️

[@ClassifiedUnit-135]

Yeah "help" 😂

[@Barbarossa095]

@@ClassifiedUnit-135 I don’t see anything funny🤷‍♂️ unlike you, I was born and raised in Chechnya. and I know what it was like

[@aleksandrs1422]

​@@Barbarossa095 Who knows, maybe you've simply heard stories that losers tell about how good they were. I think Beslan hostage situation speaks volumes as to the kind of people Russia and actual God-fearing Chechens were fighting in Chechnya.

[@Barbarossa095]

@@aleksandrs1422 and you know very well that the Russian army killed most of the hostages by shooting at the school even from a tank)))

[@aleksandrs1422]

​@@Barbarossa095 So I see you disapprove of what Russians did in Beslan. Do you approve of what Chechens did though?

[@user-jv6ip6fe8m]

Chechen people are endured one of the darkest of episodes possible in this world. destruction and genocide this is unforgettable. Long life chechnya 💪

[@PlumbuM871]

It’s so incredible that you worry so much about the Chechens. They will thank you for it

[@tam62-wm9mf]

@@PlumbuM871Yes we will, don’t worry

[@FalconfromRF]

As Chechens used force in their attempt to gain independence, suppressing them was entirely legitimate

[@Nasir3623]

Thank you for telling story. More people need to know this.

[@clarkvincentga-as]

Hoping to cover the Philippine Revolution soon

[@thehunzz]

Ramzan Kadyrov's son fits the profile of a serial killer well.

[@spl1tz_48]

Gelaev during an interview said to the journalist that Yelstin/Putin never wanted to negociate with good guys like Dudaev or Maskhadov BUT negociated with Kadyrov, that even before the Chechen wars, he have killed 2 innocent men just because he passed the man in line and the man reacted by saying hey why you do that, and Kadyrov just took his pistol and shot the old guy in the head.

[@dakotabrignac7415]

Ramzan Kadyrov. Ante Pavelić. Vidkun Quisling. Different names with the same meaning.

[@marccan3267]

Kadyrov's choice was no easy but he saved what could be saved. What was he supposed to do, resist and destroy his own cointry? He doesn't deserve a place with Norwegian traitor and nusproduct of Serbian terror.

[@user-nk1re1mf6o]

Joe Biden Pinochet Mussolini. Different names with the same meaning

[@antemrkic1702]

What meaning

[@marccan3267]

As i already said, Kadyrov saved what could be saved, no doubt he will turn back on Putin at first sign of weaknes. No need to put him in same category with Norwegian collaborator and nusproduct of Serbian royalist terror. And no need for deleting comments, don't be afraid of the facts

[@bluemoondiadochi]

@@user-nk1re1mf6oMussolini doesnt belong to that list. sure, he did stupid things but he wasnt a foreign asset.

[@paolopetrozzi2213]

You do not need to say "Sharia Law", as Sharia already means "Islamic Law". It's like to say "Islamic Law Law". Therefore: "In 1999..., Chechnya adopted Sharia.". Thanks for your high quality video.

[@Randomguy-wy4xi]

Look at the similarities between the Russian assault on Grozny and the Israeli assault on Gaza.

[@Randomguy-wy4xi]

@@MANUPETAIN2218 Gaza is more heavily defended.

[@Randomguy-wy4xi]

@@MANUPETAIN2218 Not to mention the media coverage of Grozny was far less than in Gaza. Despite the city being designated as the most destroyed city on Earth in 2003.

[@user-dy9jq4lc5y]

@@Randomguy-wy4xi that may have to do with the fact that people back then had less overall awareness of global conflicts and social media hadn't picked up its pace yet. Furthermore, the conflict in Gaza naturally gets more attention because Israel and Palestine are located in a region considered "holy" by Abrahamic religions, which are followed by over 4 billion people worldwide. And even when the wars in Chechnya were being covered, media in the United States avoided in-depth analyses and stuck to bland headlines that omitted the ridiculous disparity between the Russian and Chechen sides and oversimplified the separatist movement. Outlets didn't want the American public sympathising with the Chechen cause and they certainly didn't want American congressmen proposing a bill to have US intelligence support and arm the Chechen rebels, because the Chechens fighting Russia were Islamists and by the 90s, America and Russia could both agree on Islamists being a common enemy. Today, American officials continue to bring up Chechnya and Syria to take a shot at Russia and Russian officials continue to bring up Iraq and Afghanistan to take a shot at America, but neither of them actually care about the hundreds of thousands of Muslim civilians killed.

[@HistorienBrave]

The Chechens are a people who existed before the birth of Jesus. Once known as Durdzuks, this indigenous people of the North Caucasus defeated empires such as the Scythians, the Mongols and Russia. They saved the first Georgian king, Pharnavaz I of Iberia, and have been allied with Georgia for over 1,000 years. Their country was already independent before the creation of the United States, so those who say "the Chechen independence fighters were financed by the CIA" need to go back to school. They unhesitatingly deserve their independence from Russia, which deported and genocided them.

[@HistorienBrave]

There's no need to answer me, just go and find out what the "Qonakhalla" is. It's a Chechen code of honour similar to the chivalry of the French and the Bushido of the Japanese.

[@KonradAdenauerJr]

Another reason for Kremlin's success in Chechnya has been the eventual replacement of Russian Army troops with Interior Ministry forces, which were much better suited for counterinsurgency. The cooption of Kadyrov definitely helped, giving a "Chechen face" to the Kremlin's effort.

[@schaihmansur8298]

not replacing, they were there since the beginning. Just not as attacking forces. Most of the Videos were UAZs and white bus like cars are ambushed by chechens from back then are Omon, MVD, FSB and other non army forces.

[@KonradAdenauerJr]

@@schaihmansur8298 Yes, you're correct. I meant to write that Putin placed the Interior Ministry in overall command of the pacification of Chechnya.

[@schaihmansur8298]

@@KonradAdenauerJr oki doki.

[@BuckeyeRutabaga]

5:13 Yeah, it was very easy to blame the terrorism on the Chechen rebels because "some of them used terrorism as a tool" lmao

[@hansjonsson6176]

haha 😂 FSB was just loading sugar in the basement. FSB exam practice

[@ZESAUCEBOSS]

“We went to far” - yeah, anime waifu Stalin is too far……

[@alexandarristic9676]

Go see the capital city of Chechen ... I never see more beautiful city in World.

[@schaihmansur8298]

its a shit hole.

[@redacted7060]

​@@schaihmansur8298go there yourself, or watch videos of Grozny

[@GerKaiNeknete]

Thank you for your work. Please stop with the unnecessary camera movement, its unpleasent...

[@nonan1974]

if they won why they still pay tribute to local warlord?🤣

[@MixedRaceMan]

🍿🍿🍿 for the comment section

[@thelegendarychechen]

Corrections: - Aslan Maskhadov was not a secular leader. He was an islamic one that wanted sharia, he was simply more moderate in his approach than people like Shamil Basayev. - The skirmishes in 1998 were not between government forces and fundamentalists. It was between the Yamadayev gang who were traitors just as Kadyrov. They ambushed and killed some people from the Sharia guard and then they started fighting. - Sharia law was not adopted because of pressure from radicals in 1998, it was adopted from the beginning of Ichkeria, but its application was not structured because the ongoing war. Dzhokhar Dudayev is the one who gave the orders to implement it. There are many videos of him and the presidents after him talking about this. - Akhmat Kadyrov didn’t fight the Russians either before he “betrayed” us and neither did his son, the current president. They were secretly working with the Russians from the beginning and their ancestors had connections to the NKVD, the Soviet predecessor of the KGB. They have always been traitors. - Russians also bombed the human corridors and killed thousands of civilians this way. My father and others told me stories of how they were under fire and had to carry wounded women and children whilst being shelled. - The USA also supported Russia. After the first war Russia was collapsing yet Bill Clinton sent billions of dollars to Russia in order to save it from economic collapse. This is all available and public on the internet, even though Russians try to deny this and claim the US supported rebels in Chechnya.

[@mnd7381]

Do you people support sharia as of now?

[@mnd7381]

@@bConrad741 right. What's the economy of those places now? Are they good and have the regions seen urban development under Putin?

[@mnd7381]

@@bConrad741 damn things are bad. Tho I understand the open air prison, but are there no insurgencies or sleeper cell-parties that would rise up?

[@Seyfullahalasiya]

​@@mnd7381they got destroyed,now they go to Syria to help Syrian mujahideen

[@mnd7381]

@@bConrad741 okay not sure but there were actually reports that some chechens were among foreign fighters in Afghanistan and Iraq-Syria. These were NATO reports. They also reported some of these people were in elite terror units. Aren't these true?

[@backseatgamer7367]

Put in only fights wars he's already won in his head...that's why his generals confuse him....

[@Bayard1503]

Serendipitous considering what's happening today in Ingushetia

[@aciduzzo]

K&G should do an episode about the Gaza genocide.

[@Barbarossa095]

they also blew up their own houses to blame the Chechens for it

[@user-vt1xy5ts6h]

No.

[@user-xq7ms2cg2l]

On year 1859 Imam Chamil surrenders after an agreament with Tsar Alexander the second after a long war

[@Allfaxnocaps]

Yall what’s up with the high pitched beeping sounds on almost every KZbin video why is it so god awfully loud????

[@19angela71]

Ryazan “sugar” is an important story that tells you everything about Putin’s regime. It started from the bloodshed of its own people. How does it end?

[@user-vy1rb8iv9j]

Simple. You stop conspiracy theory spreading and that is all folks!

[@jabroni951]

9/11 happened like few years later. CIA looked that up from the best

[@horseman217]

Great video! The suffering of the Chechen people must've been immense. Still today.

[@user-xq7ms2cg2l]

Responsivility of prime minister Victor Tchernomyrdine

[@ezziukas]

Second Opera browser war ...

[@12gmkk29]

So putin condemns what israel is doing in gaza yet he did this to chechnya!! What a hypocrite

[@zacharydurocher4085]

Politics

[@redacted7060]

They attacked Dagestan and supported by terrorists

[@JA51711]

And then a year later 9/11 happened.

[@czarcitizen6881]

Thank you for this much-needed follow-up to the First Chechen War. Grozny provides an excellent example of the challenges and horrors facing modern urban warfighting; its complete encirclement, systematic partitioning, destruction of residential buildings by air & artillery support, and block-by-block pacification with small units of infantry all provide a grim template for conflicts we've seen as recently as 2024.

[@Ananananasik]

all's well that ends well

[@Flight_of_Icarus]

Sometimes extreme cruelty and underhandedness can get you everything you want from the world. That's what I've learned from Russia.

[@josephthebig2889]

Now do Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam in detail like this :)

[@MikeWinkyObama]

Also please document NATO's illegal destruction of Libya and the destruction of Gadaffi's irrigation schemes which was a war crime.

[@limestonecrafter9044]

NATO did not Annex these countries.

[@asenfilev239]

Therefore, you may find a reason to attack a weaker opponent. The question is - do you have morals? And just because others are immoral doesn't mean you have to be.

[@user-fu2cv9xl7p]

@@limestonecrafter9044говорить что Россия оккупирует Чечню это так-же что говорить США оккупируют Техас.

[@josephthebig2889]

@@asenfilev239 Vietnam was very immoral, Iraq was quite immoral, Libya was quite immoral, the regimes who attacked them that is :).... But then again Ukraine is a different story and the whole war was due from the very start, created by Russia and the US due to their failures in negotiation 20 odd years ago :)... still it is a very immoral thing none the less...

[@NokchiNationalist]

More about Chechen‘s! 🤝👏

[@ImNotYaMateImYaFather]

I am from chechenhaalgdenslag! Which is the capital of Chechnya! I was there for both wars and i can tell you we got many from their women and we best their men into submitting easily some men were also taken as women but no bum activities