{"id":4450,"date":"2017-12-12T15:45:05","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T13:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ichkeria.at\/?p=4450"},"modified":"2017-12-12T15:45:05","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T13:45:05","slug":"december-11th-the-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ichkeria.at\/?p=4450&lang=de","title":{"rendered":"DECEMBER 11th &#8211; THE WAR."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4451\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4451\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4451 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/ichkeria.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/\u0442\u0435\u043c\u043b\u043e.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ichkeria.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/\u0442\u0435\u043c\u043b\u043e.jpg 640w, http:\/\/ichkeria.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/\u0442\u0435\u043c\u043b\u043e-300x230.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ichkeria.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/\u0442\u0435\u043c\u043b\u043e-480x368.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4451\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u0424\u043e\u0442\u043e \u0438\u0437 \u0441\u043e\u0446\u0441\u0435\u0442\u0435\u0439<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(a prayer that the Lord has heeded)<\/p>\n<p><strong>When the 11\/12\/1994 Russia invaded Ichkeria, I and my friends were studying at abroad. During the first week we almost all returned and went to the front haphazardly armed. Those, who live today, remain half-educated &#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was lucky &#8211; I managed to buy an almost new AK-74 from a young volunteer quite cheaply &#8211; just for $ 250; this machine-gun became his possession few days before &#8211;<br \/>\nafter his friend got killed &#8230; I forgot his name, I remember only his embarrassment and long apologies: he took money from me &#8222;solely for the purchase of ammunition&#8220; &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The war that tore our life forever into two halves did not come suddenly: we lived in its premonition all the years of our independence &#8211; since August 1991, following with alarm the preparations for the invasion by this vast Empire of Evil that always hung over us like anaconda.<\/p>\n<p>Border agreements with former soviet member-republics were a precondition for forcing former autonomies to sign new serfdom &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And when in 1993 our last ally, Tatarstan, entered the renewed empire in exchange of broad autonomy, we said good-bye to the last hope to avoid forthcoming war.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I want all the peoples of the former USSR, same like the countries that were part of Moscow&#8217;s influence zone, to pay tribute to those unknown chechen chaps that by thousands gave their young lives in the battle with this demonic power.<\/p>\n<p>For if it were not for their sacrifice, your freedom would end already in 1995.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4452\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4452\" style=\"width: 642px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4452 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/ichkeria.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/\u0442\u0430\u043d\u043a\u0438-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ichkeria.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/\u0442\u0430\u043d\u043a\u0438-1.jpg 642w, http:\/\/ichkeria.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/\u0442\u0430\u043d\u043a\u0438-1-300x201.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ichkeria.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/\u0442\u0430\u043d\u043a\u0438-1-480x321.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4452\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u0444\u043e\u0442\u043e \u0438\u0437 \u0441\u043e\u0446\u0441\u0435\u0442\u0435\u0439<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>From 1994 to 2007, poorly armed, cut off from the whole world, naked and hungry chechen people sandwiched on a patch of land of half of Estonia size stood the onslaught of the world&#8217;s largest empire in a full-scale war in which Russia used all its power on earth, in the sky and on the sea, including ballistic missiles.<\/p>\n<p>Even in these days, the Kremlin is forced to keep about 150 thousand of its elite army inside and near Chechnya &#8211; even the humbled one &#8211; so much they were shocked by our resistance.<\/p>\n<p>Only in the first two years of the war (1994-96) &#8211; according to incomplete data by the Committee of Soldiers&#8216; Mothers &#8211; Russia lost more than 14,000 soldiers and officers in Chechnya &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And when, after losing precious 14 years, Moscow got farther in 2008, it was already impossible to just occupy Georgia &#8211; time was lost, and the name of the robber was already attached to the Kremlin for atrocities in Chechnya &#8230; and &#8211; Putin could not go further to take already unprotected Tbilisi &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For the same reason, Putin is compelled to play today a hybrid war in Ukraine, unable to use the one hundredth power that was thrown at the Chechens.<\/p>\n<p>Here lies the reason why, despite the fact that very little time had passed and most of the people living today are its eyewitnesses &#8211; even liberals, human rights activists, anti-war activists and other opponents of Putin &#8211; all keep silent about the Chechen war &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But then &#8211; in those gloomy December days &#8211; we silently went to the front. We were lieaving, quietly blessed by our parents who survived the horrors of deportation &#8211; not for the sake of victory.<\/p>\n<p>We knew for sure that we would not win &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We knew for sure that the world did not care, otherwise it would not allow this evil come to our land.<\/p>\n<p>The Chechens marched on, with one clear task &#8211; to give their lives as dearly as possible, they went, thanking Heaven for the opportunity to give their historic torturer a worthy fight.<\/p>\n<p>This was our prayer.<br \/>\nThe prayer that the Lord has heeded &#8211; Glory be to Him!<\/p>\n<p><strong><span aria-hidden=\"true\">\u200e<\/span><a id=\"js_3e0\" role=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AdamDervi?fref=gs&amp;hc_ref=ARSkQ-3KOmYNRVGiJ0BD98iMoIvLvncLESMVczULmJaEvbOY8i0Yr_dFnupVkiIXSK0&amp;dti=298063180362499&amp;hc_location=group\" rel=\"dialog\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/user.php?id=1459202259&amp;extragetparams=%7B%22hc_ref%22%3A%22ARSkQ-3KOmYNRVGiJ0BD98iMoIvLvncLESMVczULmJaEvbOY8i0Yr_dFnupVkiIXSK0%22%2C%22fref%22%3A%22gs%22%2C%22directed_target_id%22%3A298063180362499%2C%22dti%22%3A298063180362499%2C%22hc_location%22%3A%22group%22%7D\" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show=\"1\" data-hovercard-referer=\"ARSkQ-3KOmYNRVGiJ0BD98iMoIvLvncLESMVczULmJaEvbOY8i0Yr_dFnupVkiIXSK0\" aria-controls=\"js_3dy\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-describedby=\"js_3dz\">Adam Dervishev<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/independenceforchechnya\/permalink\/10155855796205690\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(a prayer that the Lord has heeded) When the 11\/12\/1994 Russia invaded Ichkeria, I and my friends were studying at abroad. During the first week we almost all returned and went to the front haphazardly armed. Those, who live today, remain half-educated &#8230; I was lucky &#8211; I managed to buy an almost new AK-74 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ichkeria.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ichkeria.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ichkeria.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ichkeria.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ichkeria.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ichkeria.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4453,"href":"http:\/\/ichkeria.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4450\/revisions\/4453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ichkeria.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ichkeria.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ichkeria.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}