Comments by "Arty" (@arty5876) on "FRONTLINE PBS | Official" channel.

  1. This documentary shows nonsense. Firstly, Chechnya is an internationally recognized territory of Russia, which was under the control of illegal separatists in the nineties. Secondly, the entry of Russian troops into Chechnya followed after a radical Islamist uprising took place in Dagestan, in the province next to Chechnya, there were slogans like ISIS, these were radical Islamists. In Chechnya, in 1997, a civil war began after Russian special services eliminated Dzhokhar Dudayev, the revolutionary leader of Chechnya, by tracking his phone call and launching a rocket there. There was a civil war in Chechnya - Muslims in the Caucasus have a clan system of life, they live in clans, and various clans control political power. And in Chechnya, starting in 1997, radical Islamists appeared who were not under the control of the Chechen government, and these radical Islamists, like ISIS, crossed the border and invaded the territory of Russia. Chechens attacked Russia and invaded Dagestan province in August 1999 to support the Islamist uprising there. The bombings of houses all over Russia were the work of these Islamists, who were not controlled by the Chechen government, and in Chechnya itself at that time there was a civil war between clans, including clans that were loyal to Russia, Russia first drove the Islamists out of Dagestan, and then Chechnya returned to Russia, although now it is rather, the state is within the state, and clans loyal to Russia are in power
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  2. Absolute nonsense is also told about the causes of the Chechen wars. In Russia in the nineties there was complete freedom of speech, fair elections and a variety of political parties and movements. The 1996 elections were absolutely fair, as were the 2000 elections. Elections in Russia ceased to be fair only in 2004, when Putin was already in power, although Putin did nothing in the 2004 elections that would prevent his opponents from winning, in principle the 2004 elections were also fair. The war in Chechnya in 1995 did not affect the elections in favor of Yeltsin in any way, but on the contrary - a year and a half of the lost war lowered Yeltsin's rating and trust, and therefore, shortly before the presidential election, Yeltsin withdrew Russian troops from Chechnya, and in the elections in the final round Yeltsin practically lost - the communist Zyuganov then scored only a couple percent less than Yeltsin. And I repeat - the elections were absolutely fair and there were no falsifications. This false documentary distorted and turned literally everything upside down - from the food crisis in the late USSR, when the state abolished the state monopoly on foreign trade, and cheap Soviet goods and food were sold abroad, and then officials and workers were given control shares of their enterprises, and Soviet enterprises simply deliberately hid or eliminated food in order to artificially inflate the prices of leftover food and make high profits. This is not Putin's fault, this is a forced and unprepared transition from the Soviet state economy to capitalism, where the state distributed factories to workers and officials at one point, and such nonsense turned out. In 1991, there was food, but there was little of it, and government official Putin could not control how private business would dispose of what the state gave him. Considering the fact that no one died of hunger in Russia at that time, there was still food, and it was not even in small quantities, but not in large quantities, and photos of empty store shelves were taken in the evening before the store closed
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