Re: Chronology of Russian-Chechen relations -- intro and part one

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree that it is more complicated, but I can't see why Putin's approach gives a
more satisfactory explanation.  When I was in France, they had terrorist attacks
quite frequently -- 1979 -- but the French both repressed AND accomodated resistence
forces.  France is not great, but it seems a step ahead of what the US does & what I
see Putin as doing.

Do you think that Putin could do better?


On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 05:06:12PM +0400, Chris Doss wrote:
> That is my whole point. Things are a lot more complicated than just evil Russian imperialists attacking noble Chechen freedom-fighters.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: PEN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 04:44:44 -0700
> Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Chronology of Russian-Chechen relations -- intro and part one
>
> >
> > Chris, there are no easy answers.  Engels once said that the worst time for a bad
> > government is when it first tries to do something good.
> >

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