The Death of Russia by Errol Murphy

Author:Errol Murphy [Murphy, Errol]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-04-08T22:00:00+00:00

Extract from 'The Reconquista of the Caucasus' by Levan Galogre

The best news that the Anpilov government received in the first half of 1995 came in the south. While Sochi had been surrounded, the Circassians forces had run out of steam by March and were waiting to process their newfound wave of volunteers. Ironically, the native Circassians had a better time working with the Ukrainian and Chechen militias due to the common language (Russian, not that it was an enjoyable compromise), than many of the Circassians who could only speak Turkish. Though Turkish NATO instructors did their best to try and get some force cohesion going on, the situation was not going to be solved before July at least. But real chaos would arise in the east of the Caucasus. Dudayev’s northern flank had been almost entirely cleared since the Russians were too stretched to go after Ichkeria, making Dudayev believe the time had come at the zenith of his popularity to try and cement the direction he wanted Ickeria to go in the future. He began to close schools and mosques linked with Salafist Islam, and tried to cultivate closer ties to Europe, going as far as to visit both Kyiv and Warsaw in April 1995. But while Dudayev was thinking he could nudge the Islamists out of his government, the Islamists were not going to go down without a fight. They had consolidated around the figure of Shamil Basayev, one of the most ruthless Islamists in the whole of the Caucasus. At the same time, the Islamists in Dagestan were consolidating behind the scenes to try and take over the Confederation, and they also wanted to be led by Basayev, since borders were nothing in a world controlled by the one God. This would, of course, reduce the pressure on Anpilov’s military.

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