Jonathan Vincent’s Reviews > Russia’s Wars in Chechnya 1994–2009 > Status Update

"We will beat the Chechens to a pulp so that the present generation will be too terrified to fight Russia again. Let Western observers come to Grozny and see what we have done to our own city so that they may know what may happen to their own towns if they get tough with Russia. But you know in 20-30 years a new generation of Chechens will grow up.. and we'll have to smash them again."

Chief of staff of the R. army