How Russia Lost the First Chechen War - Modern History DOCUMENTARY

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To get an understanding of how incredibly embarrassing this was for Russia, imagine if Utah seceded from the US and defeated the US military.

My favorite fact about the Chechen wars. Basically every Chechen spoke Russian. Barely any Russians spoke Chechen. So the language barrier was really one sided.

Interesting fact about Dudayev's career in the Soviet Air Force is that in late 1990, as comander of the base in Tartu (Estonia) he ignored orders to attack Estonian television and parliament in Tallinn.

Greetings from Chechnya and Ingushetia! Thanks for the video! I was 15 then.

I’ve always found early federation/late soviet events hard to track. Everything was happening in such a small amount of time that I often end up muddling events.

It's a joke, you can imagine how much military and ground equipment they had to oppose to such a small Chechnya. If Chechnya had the same global support as Ukraine does today, I can’t even imagine how disgraced Russia would have been then.

"Alik, before is too late, tell your men to retreat"

Insurgencies are hard to fight. Insurgencies that have the general support of most of the civilian population are damn near impossible to stamp out. Also, driving armored colums of BMPs not even including tanks into a city, specifically Grozny of multi level buildings and ruined structures is just begging for a RPG team to launch an ambush.

Next: Russian Invasion of Georgia 2008.

Great video. Love the detail as always

> The plan was to take the capital in less than two weeks, while outnumbering the enemy over 10:1 with air dominance > the fighting continued on for nearly 2 years Every superpower has its Vietnam or Afghanistan, eh? It's like a tradition or something.

Thank you for the video!

thank you for this video 👍🏼

My undergraduate thesis is about this subject, so it's kinda refreshed me. Thank you so much

Love the additional modern conflicts content!!!

Chechen here: kudo’s to the makers of the video. As sad as the war was, hopefully it was a reminder to us all that a struggle against an invader is not always a lost cause - how big the power difference may be. I would like to thank everyone that supported us in those harsh times. Injustice, oppression and war will always be part of our human existence, but we owe it to ourselves to always stand on the right side of history and support any people striving for self-determination, freedom and peace. As the old Chechen adage goes: « victory or death »

From my understanding, they didn't "win" the 2nd one either. they made a deal with Chechen goons to keep their own in line. So basically Russians pay Kadyrov protection money.

Thanks for the video

When Dudaev was assassinated, the Wahhabis slowly but surely hijacked the national cause in Ichkeria, and turned the war from one of national liberation into a jihad. That doomed any prospects of international support for Ichkeria.