一位老妇人离开了她的家,随身只带了一张她丈夫的肖像和几块地毯。俄军只给了她5分钟的时间打包离开,随后就摧毁了她的家以及里面的一切。她的儿子和丈夫都已经去世了。她失去了一切。1995年5月,格罗兹尼 (1024 x 682)
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sposterig2,321 赞2022/1/17
they repeated it in Syria and now are going to repeat in my country, Ukraine. Actually, Ukraine did not raise its voice for Chechenians. We thought it was not our business.
thanks, but we would prefer to decline this invitation. And, I'm afraid, in *not* very polite way.
谢了,但这邀请我们还是敬谢不敏。而且,恐怕我会用一点儿也不客气的方式拒绝。
MightyMorph19 赞2022/1/18
join nato get a defensive force together and sanction the shit out the oligarchs backing putin. these motherfuckers care about one thing only money. Putin wants his climate change fantasy to become real, that's why hes leading anti-science movements all around the globe. Having politicians fly out to russia for in person briefings and shit. Only way to deal with a bully like putin is to punch him back hard. Let him keep jacking botox and facelifts pretending to be a teen, but his masters will want their flesh if they dont see access to their funds.
He most likely can not, it's a manufactured propaganda image. The guy is a botox-filled manlet who worked a desk job and pretended to be a judo expert. I'd be more worried about him shitting his pants like his Seagal friend did.
There is some dispute over whether that’s really an earned title, based on the videos we have of him doing judo
关于他那所谓的头衔到底是不是名副其实,大家还有点争议,毕竟我们看过的那些他练柔道的视频摆在那儿呢。
marquicuquis29 赞2022/1/18
He is a master of deception, ill give him that.
他确实是个玩弄权术的高手,这点我承认。
JungleTrevor52 赞2022/1/17
Original comment: I don’t know a lot about Russia’s current actions, but I do know that China has millions of Uighur Muslims in concentration camps within their country. That definitely is the Third Reich. Edit to satisfy I don’t know a lot about Russia’s current actions. I have seen and heard for the last year from countless news outlets that China has been isolating and detaining individuals identified as Uighu Muslims. I suspect that information is largely limited due to censorship from the Chinese Communist Party. While I have no means of proving this, based on past censorship efforts by the CCP in HK, Tibet, Taiwan, as well as the Tiananmen Square Massacre, I don’t think its farfetched that they would be utilizing similar censorship efforts now. Current reporting as listed below suggests a minimum of hundreds of thousands of people being mistreated based on their religious beliefs, due to CCP censorship, I believe it is possible there are millions of Uighu Muslims being persecuted in China.
Nah that’s Xi’s Third Reich, not Putin’s Third Reich. Easy mistake to make because Authoritarian atrocities look the same no matter what political bullshit they claim to be.
“Authoritarian” is a completely meaningless term but I actually think there’s a pretty huge discrepancy between atrocities. Like the US concentration camps for Japanese during WWII? An atrocity. I don’t think though that it looked just like the Holocaust. Although in fairness Hitler did think America’s genocides were inspiring source material.
First they came for the Chechenians, but we did not speak out because we did not think it our business. Then they came for the Syrians, but we did not speak out because we were not Syrians. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me.
Nobody "spoke" for Chechens because every country recognized Chechnya as part of Russia, if they challenged them suddenly it brings separatists movements legitimacy in their own country.
Lemme help you with that brother. **Fuck Putin and his cabal of mafia thugs.** ​ They exemplify the entire reason you don't leave specific people in power for long periods of time.
Ah yes specifically that Clinton named George HW Bush who was in office for more than a year after the fall of the Soviet Union
啊对,特指那个叫乔治·H·W·布什的“克林顿”,他在苏联解体后还当了一年多的总统呢。
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Admiralthrawnbar61 赞2022/1/18
I honestly can't think of a good president, besides maybe Jimmy Carter, in the last 50 years, they're all peices of shit. And Carter mainly because he is a good person, not really a good president.
Well that tends to happen when you spend the course of your Countries history grooming your population into a two party system that has the majority of the population cast their votes based on nothing more than "at least they're not the red/blue guy".
The Clinton administration was instrumental in pushing Yeltsin at a time when Russians were trying to bring back some of the better social policies that they had under the USSR. It's kind of insane Hilary talked about Russian meddling after what that administration in particular did with its PR campaign to get Yeltsin elected. Edit: I also voted for Biden. I have no illusions that Trump was a worse candidate than Hillary, but the line for being a good politician was miles back from where the Dems and Reps stand now. They don't get credit because the U.S. still did shit like this to other countries, no matter what party. They're doing the same thing now with Russia and China, the former of which is so appallingly poor it's laughable to consider them a threat. China has a billion people in addition to the U.S. population and still has a lower GDP (but a higher GDP by PPP). China has nowhere near the military capabilities we do. This is absurdly weak and cruel.
Made for a convenient distraction from Russian incompetence.
这不过是掩盖俄罗斯无能的方便借口罢了。
Druchiiii61 赞2022/1/18
Serious answer, skipping everything leading up to it because you don't want to read that much: After the fall of the Soviet union, American diplomats, consultants, and businessmen were instrumental in restructuring the governments and economies of former Soviet bloc countries. Naturally these advisors shaped these things in a way that they considered favorable to the interests of the US and its business community. (One of the most prominent was rather famously given a position in the Biden administration!). The Soviet territory was effectively partitioned into a set of private fiefs run by individuals that were granted control over whole industries like aluminum, steel, etc. Boris Yeltsin was a notoriously corrupt sack of crap swept into power in some extremely dodgy elections and helped to oversee the destruction of the Soviet system using the same method pioneered by the British to neutralize resistance: 1. Find local people hungry for power and easily controlled with extravagant gifts and luxery. 2. Bribe, threaten, coerce, any means necessary to get them into power. 3. Make their new position precarious by creating other competing power figures that make them constantly dependent on your protection. 4. Withdraw and allow your puppets to battle it out providing no energy with which they may plot against you. If one becomes too powerful or has an attack of conscience for betraying his countrymen, withdraw his support and equip his rivals or subordinates to remove him. 5. Rinse, repeat.
And that's why Ameica controls the former Soviet Bloc. Oh wait? No. Thats weird they don't. Odd how the former KGB who spent the 80s planning for the fall of the Soviet bloc and acquiring hard currency have been in control for decades. Weird that after all your "evidence" US interests and businesses have almost no influence!!!
I think I'd recommend rereading my comment more closely before I try to respond. As I said, the British colonial method is what was used here. Local people are used in place of foreign occupation.
Ran their economy better and outcompeted the Soviets.
他们把经济搞得更好,而且在竞争中把苏联干趴下了。
geldin24 赞2022/1/18
The USSR was not dissolved due to its economic conditions, and historians specializing in the USSR believe that, despite slowed growth, their economy was unintentional to collapse without other significant stressors. The USSR was dissolved through political mechanisms that have been described charitably as "controversial" and perhaps more accurately as a political coup. It did not represent the will of the citizens of the USSR. Edit:
[Link to Ask Historians thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/rwlz7z/did_perestroika_really_disolver_the_soviet_union) about the relationship between the dissolution of the USSR and economic conditions and reforms under Gorbachev and Yeltsin.
Partial responsibility certainly rests with the US, but certainly not all of it.
美国确实要负一部分责任,但绝对不是全部。
DoktorAkcel33 赞2022/1/18
When Russian hackers help Trump its “they elected him” When US government outright helps Yeltsin win elections, and at one point even had CIA watchdogs at old KGB offices that’s “partial responsibility”
Anyone saying they "elected him" is just as wrong as the poster saying the US is somehow the most responsible for a rival superpower fucking up Chechnya. They may have been *a part* but they weren't even remotely close to the biggest part.
The title is somewhat misleading. Here's the photographer's comment (https://viiphoto.com/vii-event/40-years-of-photography-1981-2021-outside-the-frame/ ): > During the first Chechen conflict (1995-1996), I made five trips to Grozny, but this time Minutka Square, a strategic access point in the capital, was unrecognizable. Everything had been razed to the ground. I had only just arrived, and this was the first picture I took. The woman had been forced to leave after the Russians blew up all the buildings so that Chechen fighters could not come back and hide there. Her husband and two sons were dead. All she had was the picture of her husband and two carpets. So the lady is a more mundane war refugee — her home was destroyed by Russian forces, but it was not specifically targeted / cleansed with no military reason. She even got a warning, which is more than most civilians on a battlefield are likely to get. War is shit.
"An old woman leaving her home with just a portrait of her husband and rugs. Russian soldiers gave her just 5 minutes to pack her bags and leave before they destroyed her home and everything in it. Her sons and husband were already dead. She had lost everything" Versus "The woman had been forced to leave after the Russians blew up all the buildings so that Chechen fighters could not come back and hide there. Her husband and two sons were dead. All she had was the picture of her husband and two carpets." I'm struggling to see the difference? Is it just that your source described a possible reason WHY they blew her house up, as opposed to the title that says they did it but didn't bother explaining why?
> I'm struggling to see the difference? The title is trying to make us think that she was at home, Russian soldiers came, gave her five minutes to pack, made her leave and then blew up her house. Now, that's not what cited photographer says. > The woman had been forced to leave after the Russians blew up all the buildings so that Chechen fighters could not come back and hide there. Her husband and two sons were dead. All she had was the picture of her husband and two carpets. He only says she was forced to leave after Russians blew up all the buildings, and all she had left was a picture and two rugs. "Forced to leave" is key here. Without further info we could also assume the whole event unfolded like this: she was not at home, Russians came and destroyed the town, her house included, she came back to the site of her former home, found only the picture and carpets worth saving and now, having no more home to stay, was "forced to leave". The problem is without finding that woman (or some credible witness) and asking her what exactly happened we can only second guess. The photographer doesn't mention neither five minutes, nor that Russians forced her to leave (she might've been forced to leave because of consequences of their actions, but not strictly by them). And just to add, I'm not trying to defend anyone here. I'm just trying to clear up and explain how easy it is to misconstrue or misinterpret what happened based on limited information. Also, I'm trying to show how easy is to manipulate with information. Nowhere does the photographer (unless OP knows him or the old lady personally, and has access to more information than what has been cited here) mention five minutes or that Russians specifically forced her to leave, but that's nevertheless clearly claimed in the title.
When i read the second explanation I felt way better for the old lady
看了第二个解释之后,我对那位老太太的感觉好多了。
blushingpervert36 赞2022/1/18
I’m really bad at recognizing sarcasm but I think your comment might be it?
我这人真的不太会看反讽,不过我觉得你这条评论是不是在阴阳怪气?
boyferret19 赞2022/1/18
I think some people think that it's ok for terrible things to happen if there is a good "reason" for it. It feels true, but that is just a lie to make people feel better.
The original title kind of suggests that the Russians blew here house up just to be assholes, not for strategic reasons.
原标题给人的感觉,好像俄军炸她房子纯粹是为了当混蛋,而不是出于什么战略目的。
MEANINGLESS_NUMBERS59 赞2022/1/18
The strategy was to advance their war of ethnic cleansing. Not sure how that’s any better but the pro-Russian bots are out in force ahead of the Ukraine invasion so idk.
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What part misled you?
哪一部分误导你了?
TheGhostOfSamHouston332 赞2022/1/18
Every time there is anything about Russian war aggression, there are so many comments trying to bring other countries into it, or defending Russia as right for their actions. It’s sad
Russian bots trying to downplay and excuse their war crimes. They are everywhere on reddit. They're working full hours now leading up to the invasion of Ukraine.
They've been working full time since Trump decided to run for President turning him from a shitpost into the Manchildian Candidate. He did more damage in 4 years than the Commies did in the entire cold war.
Really makes you think, huh? I just feel like such a spoiled, pampered, impossibly lucky human being given how much of the world lives like this or has gone through things like this. Just fucking mind-blowing.
yea on both sides, especially the russian. bombing civilians is always a great way to win wars isnt it
是啊,双方都这样,尤其是俄军。轰炸平民一向是打赢战争的绝佳手段,对吧?
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OsoCheco19 赞2022/1/18
You sure it weren't the islamic insurgents, which attempted to create Islamic state, because they thought Russia is too weak to stop them?
你确定不是那些试图建立伊斯兰国、觉得俄罗斯太弱拦不住他们的伊斯兰叛乱分子干的?
BAdasslkik23 赞2022/1/18
Should they have just let an unrecognized government take over their borders? Chechnya was not a country, and for the Russian government to recognize it as one would essentially nulled their own independence. This isn't autocracy vs democracy, this is just how every country reacts to a militant separatist group in their borders.
Post title make it seem like Russian soldiers deliberately destroyed the house but as we can see in the background the whole city was leveled because of the intensity of the fighting. Also Chechens won the first war and as soon as they did they organised an “Islamic State” (rings any bells) with Sharia law and death penalty for being infidel. So pick your sides guys.
The Russians blew up every building to prevent Chechens from returning to the city and using it as cover. Technically it was deliberately destroyed
俄军炸掉每一栋建筑,是为了防止车臣人回到城里并把这儿当成掩体。
从技术上讲,这确实是蓄意摧毁。
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And Putin ended the second war by... giving Chechnya nearly full autonomy and making terrorist leader [Akhmad Kadyrov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhmad_Kadyrov) head of the Chechen Republic. He was succeeded by his even-less-sane son [Ramzan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramzan_Kadyrov) in 2004, and today he's practically a law unto himself running an Islamist state under Putin's protection. It's like the Good Friday Agreement but shit in every way.
I don’t support making peace with terrorists but other option was to continue the war indefinitely and get many more thousands of boys and civilians killed in the conflict.
oh thank god they actually erased the whole city, I was afraid it was actually just her house. They had us in the first half, not gonna lie... I mean they even gave them warnings before they destroyed the whole city(as pointed out by an equally as good comment), I've never seen a more humane act. Also, I really have to thank the Russians for their willingness to give people their independence and for not resulting in power voids and conflict zones that would be otherwise thriving habitats for extremist groups.
“They actually didn’t destroy her house intentionally because as you can see in the background they also destroyed the rest of the houses in Grozny as well” Are you stupid?
Google image search brought up [this french site](https://www.linternaute.fr/sortir/guide-des-loisirs/1322357-visa-pour-l-image-2022-les-dates-de-la-prochaine-edition/2566584-retrospective-eric-bouvet). I don't know about the credibility, though. >War photographer Eric Bouvet has traveled the world for 40 years to immortalize conflicts and their victims. Here in Chechnya, February 2000. "I came to Grozny five times during the first war in 1995-1996, but I don't recognize Minutka Square, the great southern gateway to the capital. Everything has been razed to the ground. I have just arrived, this is my first image. This woman was chased from her home by the Russians who dynamited all the buildings for fear that the Chechen fighters would return to hide there. Her husband and her two sons are dead, All she has left is her husband's portrait and two rugs." [Another site](https://viiphoto.com/40-years-of-photography-1981-2021-outside-the-frame/) also has the story >Photo by Eric Bouvet / VII. Chechnya, 2000. During the first Chechen conflict (1995-1996), I made five trips to Grozny, but this time Minutka Square, a strategic access point in the capital, was unrecognizable. Everything had been razed to the ground. I had only just arrived, and this was the first picture I took. The woman had been forced to leave after the Russians blew up all the buildings so that Chechen fighters could not come back and hide there. Her husband and two sons were dead. All she had was the picture of her husband and two carpets. [The photographer's own website](https://ericbouvet.com/Chechnya-wars) has the photo filed under the Chechnya war I'd say the story sounds legit.
It's 2022 and these warlords are still living in the stone age. Also goes to show how useless the UN is when it matters.
都2022年了,这些军阀还是活在石器时代。这也充分说明了联合国在关键时刻到底有多废。
MongoJazzy30 赞2022/1/17
And then the Russians let Chechnya become a brutally repressive islamic dictatorship....
然后俄国人就任由车臣变成了一个极其残暴压迫的伊斯兰独裁国家……
rayparkersr19 赞2022/1/18
From what I understand Chechnya used to be mainly Sufi. One of the most open minded versions of all the Judaic religions. Then the Saudis started building them 'free' mosques...
That’s war for you Edit:Also did you know top it R/historyporn
这就是战争啊。
编辑:还有,你知道这事儿在 上很火吗?
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Dont do war, kids
孩子们,千万别打仗。
VodkaRocksAndToast_20 赞2022/1/17
Can anyone help me understand why rugs would be the thing she chooses to save?
有谁能帮我理解一下,为什么她偏偏要选地毯来救?
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For sentimental value (husband or sons made/bought them), to use for warmth, they could be valuable to sell or they could have been all that was left in good condition. A combination of those or maybe even all, who knows...
Keep you warm and more dry. Valuable, portable. Could be the only thing she has left of her family (may have inherited them from her parents, may have been wedding presents). There are a lot of reasons.
I’m guessing family heirloom. Rugs are expensive and more portable than other things that she probably wanted to keep. If you’ve got five minutes you don’t have time to grab the smaller things that are spread about. Also, she might have memories of her kids playing on the rugs. This is all speculation.
Stuff like this is actively happening in Israel with Americans bulldozing homes that have existed for generations because a religious book said it's theirs.
While the people of the North Caucasus are firmly under Russia now, I always admired how long they kept their struggle for independence going despite the disparity in force.
It's so important for me to remember that just because it's called history it doesn't mean it was that long ago. It's so easy to be apathetic and believe these things could never happen again. Frightening reminder of how frigid the world is and how quickly things can go from not so bad to really, really bad.
You are the biggest country in the world by landmass and you have one of the biggest natural resources in the entire world and you stole land and resources from countries like Ukraine and Georgia, why? What insecurities trigger in russians this behavior? Based on your resources alone you should be in top five economies of the world... and yet your behind Italy.
I'll take "Reasons why God doesn't exist" for 200 Alex.
我选“上帝不存在的理由”,给钱吧,亚历克斯。
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But now we must pick up every piece Of the life we used to love Just to keep ourselves At least enough to carry on And here's where your mother sleeps And here is the room where your brothers were born Indentions in the sheets Where their bodies once moved but don't move anymore And it's so sad to see the world agree That they'd rather see their faces fill with flies All when I'd want to keep white roses in their eyes
I can see this kinda thing and be so detached and give an upvote or whatever. To stop and think of the pain this women must have had.. and the strength to keep getting up every morning as more and more was taken. I hope she got to raise her kids right and be proud of them atleast before all that.
This is beyond fucked up. I wonder if Ukrainians will suffer the same fate if Russians invade.
这简直离谱他妈给离谱开门,离谱到家了。我真纳闷要是俄国人打进来,乌克兰人会不会也落得同样的下场。
BabaORileyAutoParts3 赞2022/1/18
To be fair, the plans had been on display at the local planning office for 50 of her earth years
说句公道话,那份规划图在当地规划局都已经贴了整整50个地球年了。
Trisaraht0ps912 赞2022/1/18
Man, I can feel the emotion in this.
天呐,我能真切感受到这里面蕴含的情绪。
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Thus happened to my grandma and her family living in German occupied Poland. They told her family they have 5 minutes to get out. From there they made the trip to Germany and along the way her father died and had to be buried. When they made it to Germany they were taken in by a farmer. My father said Germany had a deal that each person was supposed to take in one family of refugees. It didn't say they had to care for them though so the guy who took them in gave them a shelter and then basically treated them like servants. My father grew up in that home before my grandmother met a US serviceman and coming to the states and has told me horrible stories of that farmer. He was crazy religious and had his SS uniform proudly on display. Apparently the guy really lost his mind when he had to pretend to be dead for 3 days while allied troops moved through the field his unit was wiped out in.