It is well known how Russian general Yermolov (19th century Russia) used to “regard” Chechens. Among his famous anti-Chechen resonating statements, these are his words from his complaint about Chechens to Czar Nicholas I:
“By setting their example, the Chechen people are inflaming the spirit of rebellion and love for freedom even among the most loyal to Your Majesty.”
But this seeming discrepancy disappears quickly if you think about the true meaning of his words. He did not mean to praise his enemies at all. But instead, his words were a negative description. Yermolov was talking in accordance with his mentality and with centuries-old traditions of the Russian society.
However much Russians may get offended, but when they are called “slaves”, the testimonies of historical personages speak for themselves. For Russians the word “freedom” is insulting, and aspiration for freedom is a crime. Thus, so-called Russian patriots, who like to quote Yermolov, cannot see any discrepancies when discussing the war in the Caucasus today. Many centuries of serfdom, “exchanging wenches for dogs” from newspaper ads in the 19th century had to leave their traces and had their effect on the mentality of great-grandchildren of these very “wenches”.
The way Russians were rejoicing over the deaths of Chechen leaders in 1996, in 2004 and in 2005 are refuting the famous discussions that “Russia cannot be perceived with one’s mind”. Everything is totally clear. First of all, it is clear how different Chechens and Russians are, even in regard to such things as freedom. And for Chechens it is clear how paltry the most of the Russian society is.
It is unclear why some Chechens get surprised and outraged concerning Russian manipulations with the body of President Aslan Maskhadov. What else could they expect from Russia? Or do they not remember why first President of Chechnya Jokhar Dudayev was buried in secret? Maybe they forgot about the head of Haji-Murat, which is preserved in alcohol in Russian Museum of Arts in St. Petersburg? Can one ever expect any human manifestations from heathen savages who worship the body of Lenin exhibited right in the very center of their capital after many millions were sacrificed? No explanation is needed here. These days all you have to do is turn a TV on, switch to Russian TV channels, watch carefully and try to memorize what you see.
If you leave all emotions behind and take a sober look at the picture, you will see that Russians have no reason to rejoice even in the way they see it. Nor do Chechens have any reasons to be sad. The evil that Russians have brought upon other nations is now coming back to them. The figures of population dying out with the annual number of people equal to the population of Chechnya and increasing population of warring Chechnya are speaking for themselves.
Armed Resistance to the aggressors is changing the situation right before our very eyes: over the year 2004 the number of casualties among Chechen Armed Forces was minimal throughout the whole period of the war, while the invaders’ casualties have been ever-growing. Regardless of any timeframes in the Armed Resistance, Chechen Resistance has now developed into systematic work on eliminating the invaders. This work is gaining momentum and already yielding positive results, not to mention serious combat capabilities that the War Councils now have all across the North Caucasus.
Almost a quarter of all Chechens have moved out of the country, while fleeing from the atrocities that the invaders are committing. Yet it spurred the dynamics in favor of the future of the Chechen people. The youth received the opportunity to learn and pursue education at the level that would be unthinkable in Russian conditions. At the same time, in spite of hundred-year-old Russian propaganda, Chechen children are not only equal to the European children of their age in their knowledge and abilities, but they surpass them in many aspects.
The war has put all strata of the Chechen society into the places where they belong and thus showed who is what. The national-traitor trash consisting of Chechen-speaking hypocrites, whose population is not too large in number and who have been hidden from people’s eyes to this day, has now been exposed once and for all. This particular fact leaves no doubts that the day of purification for the nation is approaching very soon, which was predicted by Chechen Muslim scholars, when the hypocrites will be dragged out from under their beds and slaughtered.
Chechens have the goal, the national idea and the nation implementing the latter. Russia has dying-out population, degrading nation and heathen elite in power, -- the successors of communists who killed millions of their fellow Russians. Today their “elite” appropriated all national riches of Russia and it is now taking “rejuvenating” injections for 20,000 US dollars each with fetuses of unborn Russian children.
They are receiving applauses for killing the President of Ichkeria, who took up arms and was fighting for freedom of his nation.
Not too many nations throughout history had such leaders. Chechens had only three over the past ten years – that’s without delving into the distant past. The difference between Chechen Muslims and those for whom the word Freedom is a swearword is so great that Russians and their local puppets from among the national-traitor trash want to defeat the Chechens in order to even somehow stifle their own complexes. This is the kind of victory that they will never be able to achieve, even with such incomparable difference in numbers and resources. And this is no wonder. Any normal person can see who represents the party of God and who represents the party of Satan in this war.
In order to understand Russian mentality, one must understand Yermolov’s accusations against Chechens: “inflaming the love for freedom”. In order to understand the attitude of Chechens towards Russia, one must understand the words of Russian writer Leo Tolstoy from “Haji Murat”:
“It was not hatred, but it was failure to recognize these Russian dogs as humans. It was such abhorrence, disgust and bewilderment before absurd atrocities that these creatures were committing. So, the wish to have them exterminated, just as a wish to exterminate rats, poisonous spiders and wolves, was just as natural feeling as the feeling of self-preservation.”
Sirajdin Sattayev,
Kavkaz Center
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