> Honestly, this is the weirdest explanation for
> leftists' sympathy for Chechens I have ever seen.
Agreed.
The far simpler explanation is that more than 15 years after the collapse of the state-run commodity-producing societies of Eastern Europe and Russia, leftists will run after anything that resembles "national liberation."
But national liberation in the post-fordist era, without the Soviet Union to provide a veneer of emancipatory elements, is barbarism.
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