Word: yeltsin
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...YELTSIN'S NASTY...
John Q. Webb Derry, New Hampshire It's too late for Yeltsin to learn any lessons. Before invading Chechnya, he should have remembered the Soviet defeat in Afghanistan and the fact that it took czarist armies nearly 50 years to subdue the Chechens in the mid-19th century. Yeltsin should seek a peaceful and humanitarian solution in Chechnya now. The Soviet invasion and defeat in Afghanistan led to the fall of the Soviet empire. Similarly, the invasion of Chechnya could eventually unravel the Russian Federation. Furthermore, the events in Chechnya raise serious questions about peace and stability in central...
Nicolas Canadas Liverpool, Australia It is incredible that Western leaders could give a free hand to a state in its transition period by accepting Russia's wrongheaded policy. The West is playing the same wrong politics with Yeltsin's Russia as it played with Hitler's Germany before World...
...YELTSIN'S NASTY...
John Q. Webb Derry, New Hampshire It is incredible that Western leaders could give a free hand to a state in its transition period by accepting Russia's wrongheaded policy. The West is playing the same wrong politics with Yeltsin's Russia as it played with Hitler's Germany before World...