kravietz 🦇 on Nostr: #Russia wanted to civilize #Chechnya, instead Kadyrov is gradually uncivilizing ...
#Russia wanted to civilize #Chechnya, instead Kadyrov is gradually uncivilizing Russia by reintroduction of blood revenge (vendetta):
> If we don't even find the criminal, we don't keep looking for him, we find his relatives. As it has been customary for centuries, if someone has done something wrong and the criminal could not be found, his father or brother would be killed. That's why we'll quickly revive blood feuds. And now a man has killed someone and is walking around with impunity, and his relatives refuse him. No relatives' rejection works until we kill someone from their family and take the right of blood feud for ourselves.
Caucasus is where I've spent over 20 years and while some ancient traditions like kidnapping of a bride have survived in the form of a stereotypical joke, any mention of vendetta would only make everyone frown. "What do you think, we're some savages?", people would ask, just as if you asked if they live in ground holes and eat raw meat.
Turning a casual rejection of modernity into a state ideology, which Putin did, is however literally taking Russia back to precisely these savage societal structures. Most normal Russians would dismissively respond that "oh but it's just Chechnya" to which I can only respond "oh, but it's a subject of Russian Federation on the same rights as Leningrad Oblast". Unless, of course, you admit that these nominal "rights" are void in the first place...
> If we don't even find the criminal, we don't keep looking for him, we find his relatives. As it has been customary for centuries, if someone has done something wrong and the criminal could not be found, his father or brother would be killed. That's why we'll quickly revive blood feuds. And now a man has killed someone and is walking around with impunity, and his relatives refuse him. No relatives' rejection works until we kill someone from their family and take the right of blood feud for ourselves.
Caucasus is where I've spent over 20 years and while some ancient traditions like kidnapping of a bride have survived in the form of a stereotypical joke, any mention of vendetta would only make everyone frown. "What do you think, we're some savages?", people would ask, just as if you asked if they live in ground holes and eat raw meat.
Turning a casual rejection of modernity into a state ideology, which Putin did, is however literally taking Russia back to precisely these savage societal structures. Most normal Russians would dismissively respond that "oh but it's just Chechnya" to which I can only respond "oh, but it's a subject of Russian Federation on the same rights as Leningrad Oblast". Unless, of course, you admit that these nominal "rights" are void in the first place...