4 ms·
It is not. Russia would exist without Chechnya just fine. They have 0 legitimate reason to be there. Non-Russian people have lived in the Caucasus since before
by hydrok9 4y ago
It is not. Russia would exist without Chechnya just fine. They have 0 legitimate reason to be there. Non-Russian people have lived in the Caucasus since before Russians even existed as an ethnicity.
You've lost interest in the conversation because you are emotional and don't want to be wrong.
- int_19h 4y agoThe irony is that Russia itself had a decently sized nationalist movement with "stop feeding Caucasus!" as a slogan. That is, they wanted Caucasian republics to separate so that Russia wouldn't have to "waste money" on them, and to avoid free movement of people from there into territories that are predominantly ethnically Russian.
- hydrok9 4y agoYup, the Caucasus are only good for two things to the Russian state. Defense (the mountains are way easier to defend than the plains of southern Russia) and oil.