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The Chechen Mafia Strikes Back: War Profiteering, School Sieges and a Turncoat Named Kadyrov

2023/9/19
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本集探讨了车臣战争期间车臣黑帮的崛起及其对俄罗斯的影响。车臣战争导致车臣黑帮和恐怖主义分子崛起，他们利用战争进行犯罪活动，例如绑架、走私和暗杀，对俄罗斯造成严重威胁。别斯兰学校人质事件是车臣战争和现代俄罗斯历史的关键时刻，普京的回应以及车臣独立国家的概念都受到影响。车臣黑帮与俄罗斯寡头政治密切相关，他们为寡头提供保护，并从中获利。车臣黑帮的活动不仅限于车臣，他们还在莫斯科等地拥有赌场、酒吧和餐馆。纪录片《盗贼法》展现了90年代俄罗斯黑帮的残酷和暴力。第一次车臣战争结束后，车臣人采用恐怖主义手段，例如在布琼诺夫斯克医院劫持人质事件。车臣战争期间的封锁为黑帮和走私者提供了获利机会。第二次车臣战争后，卡德罗夫家族掌权，车臣重建资金被贪污。巴萨耶夫领导的车臣抵抗力量继续对俄罗斯发动袭击，例如莫斯科剧院人质事件和飞机爆炸事件。别斯兰学校人质事件是现代历史上最严重的恐怖袭击事件之一，俄罗斯军队采取行动导致大量人员伤亡。拉姆赞·卡德罗夫成为车臣总统，建立独裁统治，格罗兹尼得到重建。

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The episode delves into the emergence of the Chechen mafia and their transformation into terrorist entities, focusing on the Beslan school siege and the role of Chechen criminals in the region's conflicts.

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The Soviet Union is toast, Chechnya is at war and Grozny, its embattled capital, is being bombed to dust. Gangs of Chechen criminals are getting rich off the bloodshed, capitalizing on gun- and drug-running networks that flourished under Communism.

When the war ends a new breed of Chechen mobster-terrorist emerges, empowered by Arab Jihad and financed by goons who've grown fat on the patronage of oligarchs. After a brutal period of rocket strikes, school sieges and plane hijackings, Chechnya enters a new, stable—but semi-feudal—stage, led by a family of boxers and religious zealots: the Kadyrovs.

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