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I went to school with some guys from there, they were insanely agressive and dumb
The Chechen/Russian hate is serious business. A guy I worked with was Russian by birth but he was raised overseas in various places so he sounds like a typical North American. For Hallow'een one year (2005? 6? around the time of the 2nd Chechen war I assume) he came dressed up in some paramilitary type of duds, and our boss in trying to compliment him made the mistake of saying "damn, you look like one of those Chechen insurgents!" (they were in headline news alot at the time.)
This guy who is normally fairly loud got really quiet. He turned away from us and after about 10 seconds said in a voice almost too low to hear...."please don't call me Chechen." Could have heard a pin drop throughout the office. No one had any idea just how deadly an insult that would be to the guy at the time, but it's clear if my boss had carried on he would have been counting his teeth soon. Instead my boss looked around at me for help and I chimed in with "nah, you look like a Spetsnatz commando, ready to kick ass for the Rodina!"
Shit calmed down right away, but DAMN. No one had EVER seen this guy angry before. That's two ethnic groups that hate each other like the Chinese and Japanese in the early-mid 1900s.
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