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So why don't the Russians give up Chechnya?
Then probably it would happen the same in many provinces is what comes to mind. WRONG!
Oil is the reason once more. There is a very important pipeline passing through Chechen territories and the russians aren't giving that up. Secondly, there are massive oil reserves under chechen soil, most of them still unexplored.
The fact is this is a conflict which goes way back, the Chechens really hate the russians for many reasons, but the main one, was a mass deportation of the Chechen people to Siberia, 60 years ago. Half a million were deported.
Thank Stalin and his deportation policy for most of the regional conflicts in the USSR territories...
It's sad to see this happening in Russia, it's one of the countries and people i admire the most!
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