Vladimir Putin Quotes
I am certain they will achieve nothing. The people of Russia will not allow it.
Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, Statement after Chechnyan terrorists had bombed a Russian commuter train killing 42 people, December 2003
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Vladimir Lenin. This galvanized the October Revolution which put the Bolsheviks in power ousting the Kerensky government.
at the fall of the Soviet Union
Vladimir Lenin. From the early days after the Russian Revolution Lenin not only accepted terrorism as a legitimate tool but used it without thinking it was morally reprehensible at all.
While the intelligence apparatus of Great Britain and America completely missed the collapse of the Soviet Union, one man, Levin, clearly predicted it. This quotation is from that article.
The majority Muslim Russian province of Chechnya had a strong independence movement. Terrorism became the main vehicle by which the Chechnyans tried to gain more than the autonomy that the Russians had offered. There developed a major military arm of the Chechnyan independence movement. It turned our that the Chechnyan military leaders were not Russian Chechnyans at all, but were virtually all Arab terrorists who had infiltrated into Chechnya from the Middle East to “assist” their coreligionists. Instead, their terror tactics hardened the attitude of most Russians, and the independence movement of Chechnya was hijacked to be another Muslim Terrorist Battle in their war against modernity.
This was the origin of the dreaded secret police which received all this authority and mission with no checks and balances. See {613586} for Lenin’s description of the need.
While some of the Serbian holidays commemorate loss of battles, the idea of a specific Day of Revenge is new.
The “area” was Chechnya, a province of Russia with a substantial Muslim population. Islamic forces were not as unhappy in the Russian Communist days in the Christian Orthodox church was subdued, but after the fall of Communism, the Russian Orthodox church had a revival, and that exacerbated all the independence aspirations that existed for years in Chechnya.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who is serving as the current president of Russia since 2012, previously being in the office from 1999 until 2008. He was also prime minister from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2012. As of 2021, Putin is the second-longest serving European president, after Alexander Lukashenko.
