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Immortal Fortress: A Look Inside Chechnya's Warrior Culture

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Uploaded on Jul 26, 2011

Bloodied and demoralized, Russian units withdrew from Chechnya in September 1996-a year and a half after it bludgeoned its way into the Chechen capital of Grozny. But the war is far from over. In fact, Chechnya's continuing conflict with Russia is a story that spans centuries.
Award winning Immortal Fortress and its producer/director Dodge Billingsley take the viewer on a dangerous behind-the-scenes journey into Chechnya, exploring the tiny mountain republic's war driven culture while searching for its most popular modern warrior, Shamil Basayev.

After centuries of blood feuds, battle traditions, and resistance to all foreign occupiers, the warrior cult defines Chechen society. Every Chechen man is first a warrior, then a farmer, baker or oil worker. Shamil Basayev personifies this warrior spirit. To Russia and the west he is considered a terrorist, but in Chechnya a hero. His battlefield exploits have become legendary. The surprise attack on the Russian city Budyonnovsk in 1995 and the invasion of western Dagestan in 1999 have brought him international attention.

Immortal Fortress is a riveting look behind the scenes of one of the world's most controversial men, and answers the broader question of why Shamil Basayev and thousands of other Chechens fight.

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  • tamernator

    tamernator 4 days ago

    Ofcourse some fat American (Europen) who sits in the chair and eats popcorn with Cola and time to time scratching his ass, knows better who is Shamil Basaev than those who actually lived there and saw what you never gonna see in TV.

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  • byblos418

    byblos418 2 weeks ago

    Ranger Jones

    its saudiArabia what teached chechens wahabi false salafi religion

    chechens are good people

    but cia usa saudi intelligemce teached them everything wrong about islam

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  • Jude Schlecht

    Jude Schlecht 1 day ago

    Why doesnt Russia just smuggle a nuke into the center of chechnya and set it off then claim it was a terrorist attack? Simple fix to the chechen problem imo.

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  • MarvellousMuffin

    MarvellousMuffin 1 day ago

    You are wrong sir.

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  • MarvellousMuffin

    MarvellousMuffin 1 day ago

    It was captured by force in the late 1700s and declared itself independent at numerous points in history. When the Americans declared themselves independent during the American Revolution and the British attacked them, was that not an invasion? You call them terrorists, they were still an army, terrorists or not. They also certainly didn't see Russia as weak - they were terrified of an invasion.

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  • cafta

    cafta 2 days ago

    It had not .. it had terrorists not an army and they saw Russia weak when everybody saw Russia weak .. Putin said .. "minorities need Russia because it gives them food and a place to work " its russian territory for ages

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  • MarvellousMuffin

    MarvellousMuffin 2 days ago

    An invasion is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as follows: "an instance of invading a country or region with an armed force". Thus Russia invaded Chechnya.

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  • MarvellousMuffin

    MarvellousMuffin 2 days ago

    If Scotland, my own country (thank you for mentioning it), declared itself independent, formed a government, formed an army and the British decided to conquer it and put tanks in then it would be an invasion of Scotland.

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  • MarvellousMuffin

    MarvellousMuffin 2 days ago

    When Chechnya had de-facto independence i.e. when it was invaded it had all those things you've described.

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  • cafta

    cafta 2 days ago

    like you invading Scotland lol .. Scotland is in the UK :) its almost the same only Scotland has higher independence then Chechnya

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  • cafta

    cafta 2 days ago

    like .. there is no border check when you enter the republic of Chechnya .. and like .. they dont have army , independence and all that .. its just a state in a federation

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  • xusmico187

    xusmico187 2 days ago

    ll the world religons, the ONLY one that demads convert or die... islam. .

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