Chechnya, with a land area of 1.79 million square kilometers and a population of 1.28 million, is an autonomous republic of Russia in the North Caucasus. Chechens have their own language and national culture. They believe in Islam and are one of the ethnic minorities in Russia. Historically, Chechens lived in the Caucasus. 18 16 years, Russia began to invade Chechnya and Dagestan, and fierce fighting broke out between Chechens and Russian troops. Eventually Chechens were conquered by Russia.
During World War II, Chechens tried to cooperate with the German army to seek independence. 1944 Soviet leader Stalin forcibly expelled almost the entire Chechen nation to Central Asia and Siberia on the grounds that Chechens cooperated with German aggressors. On the way to be expelled by Stalin, Chechens died of illness and starvation due to lack of food and medicine, and more than 65,438+10,000 people died. It was not until 1957 that Khrushchev came to power that Chechens were allowed to return to the Caucasus where they had lived for generations.
After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan in the Caucasus became independent one after another. Because Chechens have been oppressed in the Soviet Union, Chechnya declared its independence on19911,but it was not recognized by Russia. In order to consume Russia's national strength, European and American countries provided economic and military assistance to Chechen separatists, which made Russian President Yeltsin very angry.
Therefore, in order to safeguard national unity, Yeltsin commanded 60,000 troops to launch the first Chechen war in February. Because Chechens were supported by European and American countries, many special forces retired from European and American countries helped Chechnya split the armed forces and attacked the Russian army, which led to the defeat of the Russian army. 1996 withdrew its troops from Chechnya and Chechnya gained a short-term independence.
In the last war, 65438+1August 7, 1999, Chechen militants took the initiative to attack Russian troops. On August 6, 5438+00, Putin, who just took office as Russian Prime Minister, suggested that President Yeltsin launch the second Chechen war, destroy Chechen separatist forces and recover Chechnya. 1September 1999 13 Chechen separatists razed an eight-story residential building in Moscow with bombs, resulting in hundreds of deaths. Putin can't bear it. 1999, 10 In June, he commanded 80,000 Russian troops to attack Chechnya. After eight months of fighting, Russian troops defeated Chechen separatist forces.
At present, the president of Chechnya is little Kadyrov, who worships Putin very much.