The Battle of Grozny: Urban Warfare, Total Destruction

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[@warographics643]

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[@MsDboyy]

💯

[@noban2730]

You have 100 channels and they are all absolutely terrible

[@robertocalderon1584]

"The Chechen Strayegy of [Four poorly armed dudes vs. The World]" lol I died laughing bravo sir...bravo.

[@grapeshot]

Yeah I was serving in the US Army when these events happened and I remember our sergeants were surprised that the Russian army was doing so poorly. Considering they served when they were led to believe the Soviet Army was some type of juggernaut.

[@Theshropshireratter]

I've always thought that how this great military of a super power that would sweep though Europe was literally crippled by a break away region be very interesting if the Soviets did try to take West Berlin it might turned into urban killing zone

[@TR1P0DL1F3]

Sounds oddly familiar

[@s3quencial]

@@TR1P0DL1F3 kek

[@Silver_Prussian]

By the time the russian army was not what it was as the soviet army not only that americans didn't perform all that good in their wars when they entered towns. Urban warfare is really hard regardless of how good your army is

[@Silver_Prussian]

​@@Theshropshireratter there is so much more to war, strategy and tactic you do not know.

[@neotheresa]

Setting a prerecorded message at a train station that simply says “Welcome to Hell.” has to be one of THE most badass things ever

[@jimboreee]

That's psychological warfare right there. It sounds like something out of a movie.

[@scottyfox6376]

I've heard terrible stories of how callous the Russian military treated their own dead & their family members. One example I heard of a mother who came home to her flat to find a coffin with her son inside had been leaned up next to her door because nobody was home when they delivered his body. To make it worse she did not even know he had been a casualty in the first place.

[@prestonjones1653]

Sounds like typical Slavic custom

[@jizburg]

Zinkybois

[@ratulxy]

American veterans aren't treated all that well anyways.

[@pipipupu5104]

​@@prestonjones1653😂😂😂Lmao I choked upon my coffee

[@4evermarx]

Dude, there is a doc on KZbin, the betrayal. There is a mother that got a letter her son died in chechnya but she didnt belivie the russian goverment. She joined some organisation named "mothers" or something like that, it was a group of mother that have their sons fighting in chechnya. The mother that got deathletter traveled to chechenya and found her son alive, also chechens wanted to prison exchange and all the corpes could be taken back. Watch that doc and u can see the russian corruption and how careless they are for chechens civilians and also their own.

[@user-fw4uh7ob2s]

When the Russian army couldnt capture Grozny, they flattened it with tens of thousands of civilians still in the city, leading to tens of thousands of civilians dead.

[@patrickmunneke8348]

So? The only crime in war is to lose. Russia won in the end. Maybe if the CIA and other Western powers hadn't urged them on, there would be fewer civilian deaths.

[@user-fw4uh7ob2s]

@Jayhawksfan not comparable in any way. + typical russian whataboutism

[@mdolfjitler9833]

Hmmmm sounds like Mariupol

[@guill90]

​​@Jayhawksfan Whatabout shock and aw? Lol

[@jasonlib1996]

ironically a tactic they still try to utilise today in ukraine. The problem is that a leveled city is just as valuable to the occupier as the defender. they might be able to claim capture of a city, but when theres nothing left to capture it kinda defeats the point

[@aldycarrasco]

10:40 this frame took my breath. Thinking about how many people lost their lives brutally and I know it may sound silly but I can't help thinking about pets. I love cats and seeing this frame was so heartbreaking.

[@angmori172]

'... Ethnic cleansing. Speaking of which, today's sponsor is MY HERITAGE!'

[@yellowcrayonkid]

If anyone wants to gain great insight into the two Chechen wars and the Russian military as a whole, I recommend reading the book “One Soldier’s War” by Arkady Babchenko, who served in both. The connections between this war and Ukraine is great

[@stpancraschapel2136]

Just listening to the Chechen tactics against columns of Russian armour, it was striking how similarly vulnerable mechanised divisions in Ukraine have proved, particularly in the drive towards the capital at the start. It’s scarce credible the Russian army has learned so little thirty years.

[@andersjjensen]

@@stpancraschapel2136 When delusions of grandure is a national pandemic there is systemic resistance towards any kind of change.

[@matthewkeaneone]

Good book

[@chapiit08]

@@andersjjensen The "steamroller" delusion. During WW2 the casualty ratio was 16:1 in favor of the Germans. Russians have a fatalistic view of war and life in general which translates in a complete disregard for the safety of their own troops. Most of their victories have been Pyrrhic and their defeats difficult to quantify in terms of losses of men and materiel.

[@carlosbalazs2492]

Great book, I'm reading it right now. Babchenko has an axe to grind, but I'd argue it's with good reason.

[@DauthEldrvaria]

The way Russia fights wars makes other Superpowers look like they just go into countries handing out pillows. Holy Hell.

[@imgvillasrc1608]

Mongols: *Points at Russia* That's my girl!

[@Oumegi]

@@imgvillasrc1608 That's not even a stretch, big chunks of Russian "culture" do come from the Mongols. The fact that Mongolia changed since then makes it all the more ridiculous.

[@DauthEldrvaria]

@@Oumegi Yea I was just about to say something like that. I mean I know Russians aren’t Mongols but I’d expect with the geography their would be so ethnic mixing if not cultural.

[@russty81ify]

Yeah really impressive, and that's why they don't win any wars. joke military beaten by civilian milita

[@Облитыйпивом]

Сколько мирных жителей погибло в ираке после вашего вторжения? Речь идет о миллионах жизней. Скольких людей вы уничтожили своими бомбардировками вьетнама, японии, и кореи? После вас, от Лейпцига, Гамбурга, Дрездена, и других немецких городов даже руин не осталось. Лицемерные вы существа конечно.

[@LethalJizzle]

I'm so glad you made a video on this. I've seen various footage and images from Grozny. Russian language documentaries show much more than the English ones. It's just rubble, bent metal, grey skies and rotting bodies.

[@True-Sea-Turtle]

Russia destroyed Grozny ruthlessly regardless of number of civilian casualties.

[@sniperviper4922]

How war works

[@calebc5057]

Hmmm sounds very familiar…..

[@Mrstrangert392]

Incoming whataboutism……..

[@christianjocson5509]

Bakhmut will become one too unfortunately.

[@bigmatthews666]

So what.

[@matyaksenton4301]

The battle of Grozny is a stark rebuttal to any notion that it's Putin alone who is to blame for today's Russia being so aggressively evil. After all, this horror happened back in the mid 90's during the Yeltsin era, when virtually everyone in the West was pollyannishly optimistic about the prospects for a free and democratic Russia.

[@thejudgmentalcat]

That's a very good point. The West (incl. myself) are very ignorant of this history. Warographics is helping us understand

[@Silver_Prussian]

Russia isnt aggressive nor evil if your nations security was at stake your wouldnt be bending the knee would you ? No you would be doing anything to preserve that security. And we all know nukes arent an option

[@DrMrPersonGuy]

The West wanted to believe in a rose-tinted friendly image of russia, but russia's neighbors know better. Unfortunately many in the West still can't accept that it's a bigger problem than one guy at the top.

[@Oumegi]

Putin is a mere product of his country and culture. His support in politics grew after he literally erased a city.

[@Adv-vr1uh]

@@thejudgmentalcat Thank you so much for being willing to learn! We (Ukrainians) are dealing with muscovites for 800 years (since so-called russia emerged as a nation). It's not a putin's war. It's *russian* war. They were always brutally evil, they were always men without honor.

[@BugsydorPrime]

History may not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme.

[@markkwasny9650]

Words to live by . . .

[@jamess3241]

The craziest part about this whole video is how he manages to change shirts so fast for that commercial

[@ryhol5417]

He’s clearly a witch

[@josephgriffin2388]

I noticed that as well. Cat like reflexes Simon has I tell ya

[@MrSniperfox29]

I love it when he does that, it makes it easier to skip and find the actual content on the time line.

[@SkunkApe407]

Clones. It's clones.

[@v.emiltheii-nd.8094]

Most depressing moment of this war were the two friends turned enemies.

[@alexandervolkov5205]

That telephone conversation echos in my mind…

[@kingmusa8618]

🤔

[@user-fw4uh7ob2s]

they were not friends, its a fake story

[@malcomx1924]

@@user-fw4uh7ob2s no it’s not they fought in Afghanistan together in the soviet afghan war.

[@loismylane]

@@malcomx1924 Many of these insurgents were also there. Sucks to think about the fact that many of these guys fighting were likely friends

[@DanSoloha]

The similarities between this story and the war in Ukraine are astounding

[@MaxvanRijn-ro3yx]

The little they learned is even more astounding

[@blechman3871]

​@@MaxvanRijn-ro3yx russia learned that when they bomb city in to the rubbles they can take it. Turns out they dont have enough amunition for every city of ukraine.

[@brinkee7674]

@@MaxvanRijn-ro3yx Seems they learned nothing

[@Mortablunt]

In both there were murdererous genocidal ethnonationalists killing people for the crime of being of of different ethnicity and so Russia had to stop them because they refused quit peacefully, the rest of the world acted like Russia was the bad guy for stopping a genocide.

[@hamishgaffaney5323]

It's closer to the 2nd chene war

[@twisters999]

Respect for real Ichkerian people. Greetings from Poland. Greetings and great respect for that fight for your freedom.

[@MrNotStop]

Thanks for the nice words, we will emerge again

[@twisters999]

@@MrNotStop I have no doubt you will! 💪 Stay strong friends

[@zamsuthalim]

free ichkeria

[@sleepyjoe7518]

Yes to more freedom and liberty between Polish Ladies and Chechen Men and prsperity to their resulting offspring.

[@zamsuthalim]

@@sleepyjoe7518 you say it like its the wrong thing,everyone have a choice in thier live about who they love,cant force love

[@Dank-gb6jn]

Prosecuting an urban warfare theater is nasty business, it doesn’t take a military tactician to understand that.

[@JustArtsCreations]

Your content is getting better and better on this channel. 10/10. Very well done.

[@CPX723]

Grozny was taken back by Chechens in 1996 and forced Russia to withdraw their army and sign a peace treaty in 1997. Chechnya would be invaded again in 1999, this time by Putin. It's been estimated that aroud 300 thousand Chechens were killed in both wars (about 30% of population). 45K of them were children. Interesting fact: The Chechen President Dzhokar Dudaev (killed by russians in 1996) said that he has documents indicating that Crimea is the next target for Russia and also predicted the war between Russia and Ukraine. He also added that Ukrainians will never accept being a part of the Russian Empire and the war with Ukraine will be the end of Russia. Chechen wars took way too much time and resources, forced Russia to delay their plans of invading Ukraine until 2014.

[@Mortablunt]

Do you have the agricultural licenses to pump out this much bullshit

[@yeslol4267]

​@@Mortablunt Holy shit, you're a dedicated vatnik

[@X-jn87ybt]

It's may be true because Russia cannot allow Ukraine to be in NATO as they speak the same language and they cannot differentiate between both so they make up a good checkmate for Russia and they are slavs and Russians themselves who will fight till death than be under another and that's what we see in ukraine. Because no European nation will face this level of brutality and still fight. All NATO are weak women men and they will surrender if they go directly against Russia and if Russia bombed their cities they will raise white flag, the same goes for the USA and once the US People see Russian missiles hitting US bases in the mainland they will realize what mess they got themselves into.

[@Pennysfishkeeping]

You and the team always make such fantastic content! Thank y'all!

[@raindrizzle14]

This guy has a million channels. His production schedule must be absolutely insane

[@Mortablunt]

US state department funding to spew out the appropriate propaganda helps.

[@yeslol4267]

​@@Mortablunt Everything is propaganda and I love it.

[@samt7351]

@@Mortablunt cope

[@sonnymp1337]

​@@Mortabluntthe sovijiiieet bot again

[@Mortablunt]

@@giorg1174 Someone has to counterbalance all the genocide loving Nazis with the Banderafahne pics.

[@MrKirillD]

I served in the Soviet army in 1988 and I knew how poorly prepared we were for the next war.

[@R4002]

One of the best examples of modern urban combat. Of course, the Ukraine War and the Iraq War and the Syrian Civil War also have some very good examples. The Chechens were able to quickly access the Russian command radio nets (sound familiar?), that, combined with “funneling” tanks into kill zones was a major force multiplier

[@NativeOfTheLand97]

Barely audible in the background in the video " severnaya" goldeneye 007. Thats absolute class. I was just playing that theme yesterday walking through a big open frozen field at dusk. Such a vibe

[@gifttanz]

I did a My Heritage via your discount link ages ago, (two years?) Have ended up with over 1000 people on the tree, and have met up with cousins I didn't know I had, some travelled from New Zealand to the Uk to see us!

[@MrJjones543]

Simon can't even get through an ad copy without going on a tangent

[@Zeppathy]

Ever wonder how many get cut? Lol.

[@ignitionfrn2223]

1:35 - Chapter 1 - Background 3:00 - Mid roll ads 5:10 - Back to the video 9:00 - Chapter 2 - Belligerents & tactics 12:25 - Chapter 3 - The battle 19:35 - Chapter 4 - Aftermath & analysis PS: Since it's the chechen again, can we send Slavoj Žižek to stuck Putin in the "toilets" ?

[@foist101]

Wild how familiar the "bloodless blitzkrieg" sounds, if they had learned from that mistake the battle for Kyiv could have been very different.

[@croaklikeatoad4384]

It really reminds you that russias first victim (of many) is it’s own people

[@oleh.kachynskyi]

@@croaklikeatoad4384 They're not victims, stop saying those stupid things. They're the aggressors, they decided to stand aside while their corrupt government continues sending them for death. They did nothing to stop the Chechen war back in the day, and they continue doing nothing to stop the war in my country and leave Ukrainian soil. Every russian is responsible for the death of Chechens and their children, as well as every russian is responsible for the death of Ukrainians and our children. Memorize it, repeat it, and understand it. Every, single, russian.

[@spoopytigrams9076]

unfortunately for the russians, they’ve deceived even theirselves with their own military doctorine, “make everyone think we’re strong, even if we’re not”

[@Silver_Prussian]

Urban warfare is something that is really hard to engage in because its basicaly like entering a fortress full of hundreds of small fortress, any building can be an enemy stronghold. No army in the world has ever been able to go through this kind of warfare and say it was not challenging.

[@housellama]

Urban warfare and counterinsurgency are two of the hardest challenges in warfare. Both are made a lot easier by winning the hearts and minds battle first. If the enemy can't hide among the population, then that makes things a lot easier for you. If you are facing a hostile population and are trying to fight an enemy within a city, you're better off just shooting yourself. That would be a lot less painful.

[@kx4998]

True, even the US army took thousands of casualties when engaging in urban warfare. But at least the commanders expected heavy casualties and enter with a preparation of house to house fighting, and not march in with parade formations

[@Kaiserboo1871]

@@kx4998 The bloodiest 21st century American battle was the Second Battle of Fallujah in 2004.

[@brrrrrtenjoyer]

​​@@Kaiserboo1871Didn't we lose like 500 people in Fallujah? That's about an entire elementary school. Not saying that isn't a lot of people but it looks like a masterpiece in comparison to Grozny or Ukraine.

[@Kaiserboo1871]

@@brrrrrtenjoyer You are correct, it was light casualties relative to past battles.

[@nwvfd22]

"Alik, it's better for you to come to me as a guest. Alik, from my heart, I wish that you survive this, but you better leave." Most Chechens didn't want to fight, but the Russian troops weren't given a chance by their superiors.

[@joujoukosmozou4094]

I have never understood the hubris of people who believe that they would be welcomed as liberators, without any resistance. Why can't people realise that "their" reaction would be the same as "your" reaction. People would rather have their own Hitler than a foreign Gandhi.

[@nathanflynn6092]

I mean, in terms of the first battle of Grozny, the casualties at the train station from the Maikop motorized Brigade basically tally up to all the western powers losses in other conflicts. Doctorine and negligence are very powerful things

[@andyyang3029]

Such a depressing story. Thanks for covering

[@moonspots01]

The amazing thing is that Russia is still using the same sledgehammer approach to warfare.

[@amotriuc]

You can't teach an old dog new tricks :-)

[@billybigballs5776]

Russia always fought with quantity,they never had quality.People in their country never were considered human,just meat for warfare.

[@cmdrgarbage1895]

That's what happens when both sides can't get air superiority

[@willetsmeyer3846]

This Video was so helpful on My Chechan War research paper thank you!!!

[@tony9146]

Thank you for the very informative video. I am a bit surprised at the lack of maps and graphics in this video. It could have helped to show some basic maps of the region and the city when describing different parts of the battle. The video is still very informative, thank you for posting.

[@dsnodgrass4843]

Sometimes the best you can do against a massed-force invasion is to make each one of their objectives as expensive in blood and ammo to gain as possible, and then try to live to fight another day.

[@schloops8473]

the solution is always the same... go after the dictator and it's key players, their families and everything they ever cared of. Dictatorships do not care about anybody else and so killing hundred of thousand of their soldiers is useless... all your artillery should be pointed at the white tent

[@andersjjensen]

The Russians should have taken their own advice and encircled the city for a classic siege. Nobody and nothing gets in and out. When they start getting desperate due to lack of food you let women, children and the elderly out. Then the negotiations start "10 pizzas for a Kalashnikov!"... It may take months, but it will sure as hell be cheaper.

[@kraigisboss]

@@andersjjensen It would have worked well in this case cause the country in question was so small and outside help was not coming. The modern conflict right now would be a harder encirclement to pull off because Ukraine has a functioning army to work with, not a militia. Also, it really does seem like the Russian army just forgets all lessons learned and needs to keep relearning them.

[@6komodo6]

"Alik, have mercy on your men's mothers.... Its better if you come to me as a guest."

[@beachboy0505]

The narrative is wrong There were two battles for Grozny. In 1995, the Russians lost and negotiated under Yeltsin. In 2001,the Russians flattened Grozny under Puriin. The scriptwriter has both events mixed up.

[@Ocelot835]

Technically three if we count 1994 attempt of Chechen Provisional Council and FSK to capture Grozny before oficial Russian involvment into conflict

[@ciaran3629]

The Russian General in charge of the first assault was drunk and believed Grozny would fall within a day 😂

[@ШиринбегГаджалиев]

I'm from Dagestan, it borders with Chechnya. So, population of Chechnya was about 1000 000 people at that time, and in that war Chechnya lost 350 000 people, including 42 000 children. That was real genocide. Chechen warriors fought bravely protecting their homes.

[@joninator7858]

There was no genocide, lol. The word genocide has lost its meaning because soy boys like you are throwing it away far too often. It's war! People die that's how it works. Palestinians cry genocide, Russians cry genocide, Ukrainians cry genocide, Germany cry genocide before they invaded Poland and started WW2, etc.

[@RhysCampbell01]

Bullshit 😂

[@ШиринбегГаджалиев]

@@RhysCampbell01 wow, bro, welcome ✋ I've been waiting for your comment for long long time 😂

[@DaveSmith-cp5kj]

I don't have a dog in the conflict being American, but to be fair, the reason there was high civilian casualties is because the Chechen defenders were using their own population as meat shields for psy ops purposes. That's literally what an insurgency is all about, striking and then blending into the local population and hoping the enemy kills more innocents than your own.

[@ШиринбегГаджалиев]

@@DaveSmith-cp5kj you're wrong. Chechen defenders didn't kill population in any case. And where could population go from their land?

[@CeluiEtSeul]

Try to talk about something about a specific countries is doing. People in comment section: "Bu.. but, America.."

[@alexalexalex92]

State-run troll farms be that way

[@lol311]

​@@alexalexalex92but America has destroyed more.

[@Hamzat22]

One of my prized items in life is a draft of a passport. The Chechen Republic of Ichkeria passport. There is a small map where the capital is named Dzokhar not Grozny. It stays right beside with my own national passport.

[@TheDimir]

Greetings from Ukraine. Living in situation somewhat similar to that of Ichkeria in 90s, I'm really sad that back than your country and people weren't backed up by west as Ukraine is backed up now, or at least backed up more by islamic countries. Maybe the war of today would not be happening if world helped Ichkeria to fight for independence, or helped Georgia in 2008. I reall hope, that brave Ichkeria warriors, who are now fight for freedom of Ukraine, will be back home in independed Ichkeria and that my country will help to make Ichkeria independed again.

[@Lucas_Policiano_Monerat]

Warographics is amazing! The Quality of the content is astonishing! I really enjoy your videos, it's incredible to learn history through them!

[@Theshropshireratter]

Like history channel in the good old days

[@HuckelAR]

I highly recommend any of the books Anna Politkovskaya authored on the subject of the Chechen wars.

[@namide1]

from chechen, i really enjoyed your review of the events and situation of the first battle of grozny, i have been learning the history of the caucasus since the mongol invasions for several years thank you very much for this great video ps: these are parts that are not always well explained or even mentioned it's a bit of a shame that you stop at this point, it would be interesting to show the recapture of the city of grozny with only less than 900 men against the 40,000 russians in grozny, and 20,000 more russians in the 2 strategic villages further from grozny. This surprise attack that would have completely surprised the Russians who would have sent entire regiments deeper into Chechnya to dislodge the pockets of resistance had shown that they still had a lot of capacity if not in men but strategically, this attack that had taken them by surprise The short range attack made the retreating forces in northern Chechnya panic and start shelling their own men's positions, and panic on all fronts south of the river quickly set in and grew as they reported more and more casualties on the city of Grozny (the Russians having reduced all the buildings to dust there was not much cover left and they had to leave the city in a terrible panic) and the 2 strategic villages as for The forces attacked the remote parts of southern Chechnya and left the region through the neighboring republics without losses and without problems (Ingushetia and Dagestan).

[@KiLDELTA]

somehow Russia never learned when they invaded Ukraine... the same mistakes committed.

[@CakeofWisdom]

Basing your whole strategy around "drive in and expect them to surrender" is what both historians and military planners call: *a fucking stupid idea*

[@robinbeckford]

Hardly. They've learned from the Chechnyan mistakes, and now they stand back and let the artillery do the work.

[@velouris76]

⁠​⁠@@robinbeckford Are you serious? You didn’t even watch this in full, did you…Did you even see the clip from The War in Ukraine at the end of this vis: Russian tanks advancing in straight column on outskirts of Kiev…simply picked off by taking out first and last tank…the rest becoming total sitting ducks, exactly like what happened in Grozny… They seem to have learned little to nothing from Grozny…

[@timothyclark5209]

Ty Simon and your team. This is the best channel on KZbin

[@aliancemd]

Omg, this guy is everywhere… youtube keeps recommending his videos every single day

[@block8893]

He narrates like 20 channels

[@ChucksSEADnDEAD]

KZbin slowly becoming SimonTube.

[@Mortablunt]

He doesn’t make the videos western propaganda just pays him to talk over them. Watch out everything he says always supports the western narrative and is always ever so perfectly cut to ignore a little details that would make the Russian side reasonable.

[@galacticupfan7386]

@@Mortabluntwhich details were cut in this case?

[@chrisiooo]

I live in germany and got a russian family as neighbors, of which the father served in the russian army in the 90s and actually fought in Grozny and told me that it was an absolute nightmare to go through. But take a guess what his take on the russian invasion of Ukraine is

[@Mortablunt]

If he’s a good Russian and not a Nazi lover he will be standing by it, sad, but understand the need to stop the nearly decades long and still ongoing genocide against the Russians of Ukraine. The Russian people do not love war but understand its necessity.

[@chrisiooo]

@@Mortablunt Please tell me, what genocide? The 14000 deaths since 2014, made up of military and civilian losses of both sides and even including the people in the civilian airliner Russia shot out of the sky? Or the fact that they made ukrainian the only official language in Ukraine but protect the rights of all people in Ukraine who's first language isn't ukrainian?

[@rumeysadgn]

@@Mortablunt ongoing genocide against russian in ukraine? Aaa excuse me? Stop spitting bullshit. Russia is the one who always commits genocide. Killed crimean tatars, killed chechens killed circassians killed georgians noe killing ukranians.

[@monetum1392]

​@@Mortablunt Your ass seems to be a great source

[@Covert_Arrangements]

I really miss hearing you say “Nagorno-Karabakh “ 😂👍🏻

[@josh656]

There’s a video “On the road to death” (?) filmed on a video camera by a Russian soldier. Absolutely savage.

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Thanks for this videos and keeping us informed simon.

[@dakotastrain338]

His videos aren’t very factual.

[@ChangedCauseYT-HateFoxNames]

​@@dakotastrain338 Then why are you here risking miss memory and furthering his algorithmic reach?

[@hyjinkz6903]

All the comments are so on topic, I just came here to say that I love you.

[@michaelsinger4638]

The Russian Army’s incompetence is staggering.

[@Silver_Prussian]

Nope its not because the media and many armchair generals are making it seem that way

[@patrickmunneke8348]

Yet they won. Old doctrines die hard. Like in the Civil War.

[@kx4998]

​@@patrickmunneke8348 they lost this war, it was the 2nd time that they manage to win by leveling everything to the ground

[@amotriuc]

@@kx4998 Not sure about that, Putin bought Chechenia leadership and still pays them now.

[@LARESCIV]

@@kx4998 and by subverting parts of chechen forces to fight their own and surrender, thats pretty much only reason they won

[@NoNameNoShame822]

That myheritage ad was a crazy change of pace 😅

[@multiyapples]

Rest in peace to those that passed away.

[@dandrummond9154]

This is Russians learning quicker than usual. The first battle of Kiev in WW2 had roughly 500,000-700,000 casualties. 98.5% attrition rate is rarely how things are drawn up. At some point you have to wonder if its really just a semi-regular purge.

[@allewis4008]

Russia has nowhere near the population of the combined USSR

[@justjoking5841]

They have always been willing to suffer losses if it meant a long term objective can be met sooner.

[@ssglbc1875]

Most of their casualties were 400-600 thousand which were captured soldiers and civilians. The rest the casualties were dead and wounded s

[@captaincodebook3200]

Anyone with enough explosives can level a city...doesn't make them warriors or a functional military force.

[@frankrenda2519]

sure does

[@alabastertheunicorn3204]

Well if you can absolutely obliterate an enemy from afar, then yes it's worth it

[@EmilyJelassi]

You’d think that by now, they would’ve learned their lesson, but based on the war in Ukraine, it’s obvious that Russia hasn’t learned anything! I hope they don’t and this horrible war is over soon with Ukraine winning and keeping their independence!! Excellent video. The various Chechen wars are so rarely covered, so this was thorough and very interesting. Well done Simon and team 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@maitreytelang2312]

Shouldn’t the West worry more about it’s energy needs? You won’t have a running power grid if you don’t have energy.

[@Furyfrags]

​@@maitreytelang2312we dont need russian gas, we got LNG. Say goodbye to ur EU market no one wants ur gas putin

[@hs3633]

@@maitreytelang2312 don@t worry about the West. We will do just fine! Worry about Putin and the terrorist country aka Russia(officially!)

[@nanonano2595]

@@maitreytelang2312 is this what the putin bots are resorting to now? no energy issues in the US btw.

[@maitreytelang2312]

@@nanonano2595 Is the US equal to the West? If you’d have seen the news, there were massive protests in Germany and France due to the hiked energy prices, during the last winter.

[@badluck5647]

Remember, this is what Putin is willing to do his own citizens.

[@patrickmunneke8348]

Remember Waco? All governments are the same.

[@badluck5647]

@@patrickmunneke8348 You think murdering your citizens in a false flag to justify a war is the same as an accidental fire that started during a raid on a cult of pedophiles?

[@SpecialFishSimon]

@@patrickmunneke8348 ah yes, because law enforcement taking on a compound of religious extremists is the same as the military leveling a whole city. and seriously, all governments the same? That is incredibly ignorant and demonstrably false. I cant remember Iceland doing something like this, or Switzerland, or Norway

[@ChucksSEADnDEAD]

​@@patrickmunneke8348 Pure whataboutism.

[@tempino273]

​@SpecialFishSimon the reason the cops were called on them was a lie anyway. So yes it's the same as killing your own citizens for no reason

[@funwithmagnus8570]

Kadyrov spits in these men's faces! Those men died to not have a puppet like him in power.

[@twalk263]

Great episode!!! It honestly blows my mind how much the Russian military and govt get away with time after time, war after war. They have the same playbook but we clearly haven’t read that play book. 🙈

[@OctopiOliz]

You know what’s funny? Well funny for me. Is the fact that at the start of Chechen war and Ukrainian war there were 1 phrase which literally made me think “well it will end badly for us”. So our propaganda news start saying “ we will take Kiev in 3 days”. So the funniest thing is that Grachev the military man who was mentioned in this video, before invading grozny said “ give me two parachute troops and Grozny will be yours within 2 hours”. Honestly saying the same phrase it’s just so stupid.

[@skylineXpert]

Kadyrov when he got the call from Pootie sold his moral convictions. A man like that Isnt worth a lick of spit...

[@Mortablunt]

Under him the Chechen people have prospered like never before. From a forgotten fringe to one of the jewels of the nation. From ashes to skyscrapers in under five years.

[@E001-f8g]

@@Mortablunt lol

[@antiSrusnya]

​@@Mortablunt😂😂😂

[@ironpro1511]

Video 8 of asking Simon to do a Syrian civil war video or perhaps more, as well as a Rise and Fall of ISIS (for Into the Shadows tho) Would be greatly appreciated

[@KennyNGA]

do you have a problem with me ironpro?

[@ironpro1511]

@@KennyNGA?

[@KennyNGA]

@@ironpro1511 do you have a fucking problem with me?

[@iand4374]

a syrian civil war video would have to be in 40 min parts 😂😂

[@JFDA5458]

This video reaffirms my lack of understanding as to how any Chechens can fight for Putin in Ukraine.

[@user-fw4uh7ob2s]

The amount of Chechens fighting for Russia is minimal, Ukrainian government released a complete list that showed out of 2,500 kadyrovites, only half were chechens (1300). Many of these are forced. On the other side there are many Chechens that fight for Ukraine: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chechen_volunteers_on_the_side_of_Ukraine

[@danielcadwell9812]

I read a book called "My Jihad" in 2002 that went into a bit of the battle for Grozny.

[@v.emiltheii-nd.8094]

*looks at Ukraine* They never learn! History repeats itself!

[@patrickmunneke8348]

Yet Russia won this conflict and will win the other as well.

[@Oumegi]

@@staryucheny6698 They will throw a hissy fit at the end when Ukraine wins, I bet. I just worry what kind.

[@falloutking2819]

@@Oumegi Nah, they’ll just lie and say they were fighting thousands of NATO special forces. These people seem incapable of learning

[@yuriyseliuk4120]

@@patrickmunneke8348 🤣

[@v.emiltheii-nd.8094]

@@patrickmunneke8348 And what a pyrrhic 'victory' that is.

[@sbccmichaelkelly]

Grinder, the term of the year 2023 . Piss pounding, adrenaline stimulating meat grinding. That is war.

[@micahistory]

last time I was this early, Russia was invading its neighbours Oh wait

[@goodfella1485]

Fun fact: the president djokhar dudayeav warned ukraine they would be the next if chechnya falls their expansion wouldn’t end this was said in an interview

[@MsDboyy]

🐺🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜️🟥⬜️🟩 Free Chechnya

[@AL_AFGHANI1]

Free America from Americans

[@SailRahh]

One thing for sure 2 things for certain: Them chechen boys had Russia SHOOK!

[@adamtyler8695]

There's a recording of one the Chechen General's radio'ing his old friend who was the Russian General begging him to not invade. Also that if he did he couldn't do anything to save him. He served in the Russian army previously

[@ДенисЯсников-ы8я]

Well, not generals. One of them is supposed to be an officer from 131st Maikop brigade, while the other is most likely Ali Adaev, one of the Shamil Basaev subordinates. Adaev was killed that night and the Russian officer was most likely to be killed as well.

[@robincognee5325]

brilliant analysis !

[@jeremyreff6511]

I'm glad this was addressed. I wasn't told about this in school. (Indiana) thank you

[@sleepyjoe7518]

Now read about the history of American frontier and how cruel and brutal Anglo-Saxons enslaved Native Americans .

[@jeremyreff6511]

@@sleepyjoe7518 don't worry I was lucky enough to have native American friends growing up.

[@Oumegi]

@@sleepyjoe7518 How is it in any way relevant to Chechnyan wars ? :)

[@sleepyjoe7518]

@@Oumegi Simon is Russophobic, presents his analysis with a slight bent but ignores Anglo-Saxon crimes and injustices.

[@Oumegi]

@@sleepyjoe7518 The same way Russia would not be mentioned in a documentary on Manifest destiny and various American colonisation crimes, US doesn't need to be mentioned in a video on the battle of Grozny. That's not Rusophobic. Frankly, barely anything called Rusophobic these days actually is so.

[@DestroySteve]

Ah Russian Warfare. Severely Underestimate Enemy, Enter single file, ambushed, no supplies, have to level the city to win. 😂 It’s amazing how consistent they are.

[@AL_AFGHANI1]

As if the Americans never flattened any cities in Iraq or Afghanistan

[@andersjjensen]

Considering how badly it has gone for Russia in Armenia, Chechnya and Georgia I wonder why the hell they figured Ukraine, a country much much bigger and much much more capable, would go down smoothly?

[@noahgray543]

Because things went fairly well during the invasion of Georgia and in the first invasion of Ukraine? I mean, any idiot could see that today's Ukraine and 2014's Ukraine are different beasts entirely, but I am not saying that Russian intelligence isnt idiotic.

[@aregularperson7573]

This battle was like Mariupol but somehow worse

[@TheCluelessLucent]

My own flesh and blood, my brother, was a freelance merc, eho fought on groznies side. He would send me a . picture, of a bombed park, where every step he took, the road, concerete, bled red. In his own words, this road, is blood, ever Step taken, the ground bleeds, a hundred thousand souls and bodies, inches from my feet, anywhere I walked, the ground weeps, not with tears, but blood

[@deaks25]

I'm just old enough to vaguely remember hearing about Chechnya but too young to understand the implications and so it became a bit of a forgotten conflict, but it's shocking how near-identical all the problems Russia has had in Ukraine (And Georgia before that) were played out in Chechnya as well. You could almost copy/paste this video and replace every mention of Chechnya with Ukraine and have a competent video on the current conflict. Everything is repeated; poor planning, moronic tactics, the "Russia Stronk" mentality, the assumption they'll be welcomed as saviours, the reliance on flattening cities with artillery, poor training, reliance on conscripts, poor communication.

[@Mortablunt]

You didn’t read a single thing about Georgia? RU rolled a NATO proxy army flat in 3 days.

[@rocko7711]

Incredible video

[@lucasjleandro]

40 years since Afeghnistan and they keep doing the same mistakes. If Georgia was a large country they'd had more troubles

[@ravenmusic6392]

It's more the opponents they faced. The Russians in the 90s were dreadful and faced a dedicated bunch of former Soviet soldiers with excellent terrain. They got better by the second war and by 2008 had quite a good grasp of pre-planned operations, and the Georgian army folded like paper, it wasn't a serious fighting force in the same way the Chechens or Afghans were

[@carlosriva-palaciob2115]

Thank your heritage for the video, very good

[@N54htmare]

I only know of Chechnya because of khamzat chimaev 🐺

[@umar24579]

Khamzat chimaevs a clown

[@diogeneslantern18]

Bro that ignorance is not something to be proud of

[@hs3633]

He is a puppy of don don Kadyrov who is a puppy of Putin

[@kavdanazoun9195]

@@umar24579 As a chechen I'm totally agree

[@gregorygaskill5412]

Predictability has a quality of its own - Vlad P.

[@janvyr002]

Can you do something about Czech history? We have a lot of interesting stuff too. Hello from Olomouc the city of forts 👋

[@thisisabcoates]

When I think "war" and "Czechia" I tend to think of the Second Defenestration of Prague. Oh, and kings fighting wars against their brothers (Jaromir and later Wenceslaus, etc)

[@rubiconnn]

The Hussite wars would be interesting.

[@SkunkApe407]

The treatment of Chechens and "lesser" Slavic groups at the hands of Russians is sickening, to say the least. It's a wonder that any former Soviet state would dare trust Russia, let alone side with them.

[@irondog068]

Worse urban warfare ever witnessed? You miss WW2? Battle of Berlin, Stalingrad, Lenningrad, Manila, I could go on but you get the point.

[@Sabbatai-Zevi-1666]

And Vukovar 1991.

[@Kaiserboo1871]

Siege of Sarajevo, 1990s

[@LARESCIV]

He probably meant modern but prior to that Yugoslavia saw some insane urban battles like the one in Sarajevo

[@tomgu2285]

​@@LARESCIV sarajevo didn't have any urban battle lmao. Serbs controlled the mountains but didn't do any big offensive on the city.

[@tomgu2285]

He means modern.

[@hiwhatsyourface]

Hitting the lead and rear of a vehicle column? Wow imagine falling prey to that and failing to learn from it. The second best military in the world surely wouldn't do that

[@kx4998]

You forgot the parade formations. Apparently the paratroopers packed parade uniform into Kiev

[@secaymal]

How many channels does this man have

[@LiveFreeOrDie2A]

*Holy shit, is there a more Russian looking Russian than Boris Yeltsin??* 😅

[@protosszergs5323]

to be honest, he looks like the Finno-Ugric tribes, he doesn’t look like a Slav.

[@Mrgunsngear]

Thanks

[@IliketheBears]

Do a video on the ghost of kyiv, my wife’s boyfriend got the chance to meet xim/xer when he volunteered in ukraine a few months ago. A true hero!

[@KennyNGA]

my father met jesus christ also another legend

[@thejudgmentalcat]

I see what you did there 😂

[@Alitacyan]

Nice try Ivan

[@patrickmunneke8348]

Lmao🤣😂

[@ChucksSEADnDEAD]

>wake up >think about pronoun people I think you're obsessed

[@kman4766]

love your stuff. great topics. Consider something about Cold War? Say between 1970-2005?

[@ButchE30M3S14]

History repeats itself. But this time no Brave Defender will yield. Slava Ukraini.

[@Ayem427]

Knowing Russia has always been this sloppy is both comforting and horrifying

[@MrEnjoivolcom1]

These episodes are getting incredibly better & better!

[@daehr9399]

Great video!