“If the Russian people and the Russian elite remembered - viscerally, emotionally remembered - what Stalin did to the Chechens, they could not have invaded Chechnya in the 1990s, not once and not twice. To do so was the moral equivalent of postwar Germany invading western Poland. Very few Russians saw it that way - which is itself evidence of how little they know about their own history.” RussiaSoviet UnionStalinChechnyaChechen Book:Gulag: A History Source: Gulag: A History
“It is not, in the long run, the battles and sieges that signify, but the permanent effect on the human race of the changes they help to bring about.” HistoryConquestRussianCaucasusChechen Author:John Baddeley