Re: Chronology of Russian-Chechen relations -- part two

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From: "Louis Proyect" <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Chronology of Russian-Chechen relations -- part two


> Chris Doss wrote:
>
> > Hey, I did manage to find something in English on the Chechen economy in
> > 2002 by Mikahil Delyagin. (Delyagin is a left-wing quasi-Keynesian
> > economist who looks kind of like a chipmunk.)
>
> With Delyagin prefacing his article with the following hawkish rant, I
> would tend to take what he says later on with a grain of salt:
>
> "A war is going on in Russia. It is going on not only in the Caucasus
> but also in Moscow. The most terrible thing in the current war is not
> the impotence of the military and the militia, not the lies, which we
> have already grown tired of and not even the coffins, however cynical it
> may sound. The most terrible thing is that we pay our murderers
> ourselves. Armed with Russian weapons, the Chechen bandits drive Russian
> KAMAZ trucks, which run on gasoline produced from Russian oil. They
> torture prisoners of war with electric current generated by Russian
> electric power stations and heat with Russian gas luxury homes which
> they have built on the money from the Russian budget. The most terrible
> thing is that with our own hands we are continuing to support up to this
> very day the economic base of the Chechen terror."
>
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