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Anniversary of the allied victory over germany, the russians had every right to throw a huge celebration of that victory, they still do every year. soviet union lost far, far more soldiers and civilians in world war ii than anyone else. 27 million people. but did you catch tom brokaw s they re saying that in 1995, president clinton and other western leaders blockade of the russian parade. they boycotted it because at that moment, on that day, may 9th, 1990, five victory day even as russia celebrated its heroic victory over germany 50 years prior, russia was deep into a brutal scorched earth campaign in the breakaway province of chechnya, in fact the very next segment in that nightly news broadcast from may 9th, 1995, was from chechnya. it s impossible to watch it now and not see nearly word for ....
Nightly news broadcast from may 9th, 1995, was from chechnya. it s impossible to watch it now and not see nearly word for word an image for image the parallels to today. bombed out ruin. it took moscow s army six weeks to blow it to betts, now russia soldiers patrol the city and most of the surrounding countryside. at night check in fighters positions in the mountains. thousands of civilians died here, were crews still find bodies in the rubble, one of grozny s farmers cemeteries is reserved for the unidentified. the graves are marked only by numbers. more than half of grassi s florida thousand people have returned since the fighting stopped here three months ago, but he since founded city almost totally destroyed. 90% of grozny s villains are uninhabitable, there s no gas or electricity. people were collecting water ....