kopn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> You do not know geography, are illiterate. Russians could not "occupy
a
> Chechyan city" because Chechnya is a Russian region.
Comrade, maybe there's some history you think we don't know, or would
prefer that we didn't know. Chechnya was forcibly annexed by Russia in
the mid 19th century, after a lengthy war. Since then, many of the
Chechnyans have been unwilling citizens of Russia/the USSR/Russia, and
Russians and Chechens are still dying for that reason. It's a good
question whether a Chechen city becomes Russian just because the
Russian/Soviet government of the day declares it to be so, especially
as Chechnya recently had a couple of years of independence before being
again incor****ated into Russia. Was it "occupied" at the end of that
period but now couldn't be, as it's Russian again? Or once the
independent period was declared to be over, (declared by Russia, that
is!) was the concept of "occupation" impossible, even as the tanks
rolled in?
Would you similarly say that most of Poland wasn't "occupied" by Russia
but was instead an integral part of Russia, during the 19th century? I
think the Poles would tell you that they've always been Poles, no
mattter who "occupied" their country.
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