--- kjkhoo at softhome.net wrote: 3. Is Chechnya all that different from, say, N Ireland?
--- Refresh my memory. When did the IRA kidnap and enslave thousands of Englishmen? When did the IRA send thousands of gunmen in order to take over Scotland? When did the IRA establish the death penalty for adultery? Where were all these IRA squads that were made up, not of Irishmen, but of Saudis, Egyptians and Moroccans?
Indidentally, the stans did not secede from the USSR. They were kicked out.
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