6/12While the Kremlin often contrastsRussia's purportedly "anti-colonial" expansion inthe19th century with the violent British conquest of India, War Minister Chernyshev in1842proposed subjugating the Caucasus the British way to minimize bloodshed. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1800869503062175861.html
In Ukraine itself, meanwhile, pro-Ukrainian Chechen formations have announced that they intend to take the fight back home to Kadyrov after Russia is expelled from Ukrainian territory.
2016.12.19 It was the Bolsheviks who espoused anti-colonialism most wholeheartedly,& we have to turn to the Soviet period to understand why most Russians are so resistant to the idea that their empire was colonial./ These2factors – the lack of integration into the Empire and the expropriation of
7/29 Young women in Grozny lined up to meet Education Minister Sergei Kravtsov. When I started writing a connected history of Ukraine and the North Caucasus this wasn't the sort of connection I was eager to see.