It's a good deal for everybody? We are just freaking out? Most likely, but what if he sparks a lot of older communist hardliners? Anything's possible, look at Germany. ;) I never thought in my lifetime or my childrens lifetime the changes in the 80/90s would happen and almost overnight things changed. Russia hasn't had large scale military excercises for a long time, you see their people were starving and life became very hard for a alot of them, then Russia was in a civil war with territorries that tried to leave the old republic. Some they let go, some they forced into submission. Some they lost. It was just in the last few years that Chechen rebels seized a theater in Moscow with over 700 people taken hostage and demanded Moscow end the war in Chechnya. It wasn't an election that started the war from my perspective. It was the collapse of the soviet union. Boris Yeltson was already in power of the Union and at the collapse 14 regions became independent nations. I am not getting into soviet politics but at this time it's 1991 and Dudayev is elected leader of Chechnya and declares independence that Boris refuses to acknowledge and sends troops who withdraw when met by force. The next few years see turnoil in the country and in 1994 Boris invades Chechnya and they still are at conflict although they have gained republic status from what I can tell?
I am not supporting either side, just spitting out info I remember.
