Looking at Grozny now I see it has been rebuilt to good standards,But what type of bombing happened to make it look like this back then during the wars? It was so isolated and bombed out. Also how long did rebuilding take?
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The Grozny War.
Same tactics the Russian army is using now. Specifically the TOS-1 thermobaric rocket launcher (Russians say flamethrower) as the chechens didn’t have stand off weapons or artillery.
Same shit that made Gaza, Damascus, Aleppo and Mariupol look like this. War, lots of missiles artillery and explosives
I just did a piece on the events leading up to the Second chechen War, where I cover a little of the first war. If you want a link, let me know. Most of the Chechen population had relatives outside grozny. Once it was clear, the Chechens were going to attempt to hold Grozny, much of the civilian population went to the mountains with relatives.
The Russians tried to take Grozny once but failed. So instead of re-assessing their tactics they just carpet bombed the entire city into dust.
Russians still have not learned how to take an urban center without massive casualties – just look at Bahkmut, Avdiivka, Mariupol, etc.
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That last picture is cold 😂
Ima go with death and destruction, although not an expert on the subject
[There were people there, just had to dig them up from the mass-graves Russia made](https://www.reddit.com/r/Documentaries/comments/tdbo1l/the_betrayed_1995_first_chechen_war_russian_tanks/)
They had plenty of ammo stored up then that they probably wish now was still in inventory. That much damage takes a lot of boom.
Russia.
russian went there and doing flat theire country, and they are pro russianas ..fcking sick
This is how all urban war looks to a certain extent
The first attempt taught the Russians that urban warfare was hard, so on the second try, they decided to get rid of the urban bits.
You can see a lot of similar stuff looking at the hard fought areas in Ukraine as well
In 2003, the United Nations called Grozny the most destroyed city on Earth, with not a single building left undamaged.
The Russians leveled it.
What do you mean? This is just what the Russians consider to be “peace”.
It’s a small piece of land that was bombed to shit with absolutely everything.
I was briefly joined at boarding school by a Chechzen guy called Tamalan, who went straight into town on his first day and bought a large kit hen knife that he kept under his pillow in the dorm. He claimed to have “killed many Russians already” and waxed lyrical about his wolf-fighting dog, which had had its ears removed at birth.
He would never let an unposted letter be lower than his waist, believed that whistling summoned demons and would never back down on anything, ever. Even when all the dorm wanted the window shut, he would labouroously rise from bed to open it again the moment anyone shut it.
I remember that he considered reciting “Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater” was the height of an insult. Interesting to have met him – I think his father was a gun runner of some sort, but Tamalan left after a few terms and never really shared much with others.