Russia Was Never The Same After Its 1994 Invasion Of Chechnya

March 21, 2020 Topic: History Region: Europe Blog Brand: The Buzz Tags: RussiaChechnyaChechen WarMilitaryUrban Warfare

Russia Was Never The Same After Its 1994 Invasion Of Chechnya

Russia’s army, like the country itself, was then an impoverished shadow of its former Soviet self.

The resulting sense of national humiliation and weakness, and the manifest corruption and incompetence of the Yeltsin administration discredited democratization in the eyes of many Russians and laid the groundwork for a KGB officer named Vladimir Putin to ascend to the presidency in 1999, it was very much on a platform of avenging the humiliation of the First Chechen War with an even blooder Second one. 

Sébastien Roblin holds a Master’s Degree in Conflict Resolution from Georgetown University and served as a university instructor for the Peace Corps in China. He has also worked in education, editing, and refugee resettlement in France and the United States. He currently writes on security and military history for War Is Boring. This first appeared in 2019.

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