Few people now remember the events that took place in Russia 25 years ago. Black September. Explosions of residential buildings.
Several high-rise residential buildings were blown up with the help of explosives planted in the basements: in Buinaksk (4 September), two in Moscow (9 and 13 September) and in Volgodonsk (16 September).
As a result of the incidents, 307 people died and more than 1,700 people were injured of various degrees of severity or suffered to one degree or another.
The explosions provided serious arguments for the start of the second war with Ichkeria.
The Russian government blamed the Chechens, but evidence of their involvement was never provided.
On 22 September 1999, at about 9 p.m., Aleksei Kartofelnikov, a resident of house No. 14/16 on Novoselyv Street in Ryazan, noticed three strangers, two men and a woman, carrying bags from a car to the basement.
The police discovered explosives and on the evening of 23 September, three people suspected of preparing a terrorist attack were detained in Ryazan, who turned out to be employees of the FSB central office. These people, explosives and a detonator were urgently sent to Moscow. Patrushev, the head of the FSB at the time, told the surprised public that training was held in Ryazan, there was sugar in the bags, and the detonator was fake.
A colossal scandal arose. After all, it immediately became clear who blew up the houses.
In a couple of years, former FSB employee Aleksandr Litvinenko and journalist Yuriy Felshtynskyi will write the book “The FSB undermines Russia. The Federal Security Service is the organizer of terrorist acts, kidnappings and murders.” Its first edition will be confiscated and destroyed. Later, one of the authors, Oleksandr Lytvynenko, will be poisoned with polonium and die in Great Britain.
The FSB of the Russian Federation and the Prosecutor General’s Office presented a version of responsibility for the explosions of an “illegal armed group”. Achimez Gochiyaev from Karachay was allegedly one of its leaders. They are still looking for him.
A few days later, the Prime Minister of Russia, Vladimir Putin, announced at a press conference: “We will pursue terrorists everywhere. So, you’ll excuse me, we’ll catch them in the toilet, we’ll also soak them in the toilet, eventually.”
On 30 September, Russian troops began the Second Chechen War.
What happened, what is the reason for these events?
In 2000, the presidential elections of Russia were approaching. Until mid-August, the FSB of the Russian Federation was headed by Vladimir Putin. It was then that the entourage of the corrupt and incompetent, then President of Russia Yeltsin, stopped at Putin as the successor to power. He was immediately appointed to the post of Acting Prime Minister of Russia. But he had no rating.
A month later, houses began to explode. Then the invasion of Ichkeria. Yeltsin’s self-renunciation, snap elections, and already in December of that year, on the wave of military hysteria, Putin became the President of Russia.
Why did I remember this event 25 years ago today? Many in the West cherish the dream of peace talks with Putin. As if they are the ones who can stop the war and completely forgot when Putin came to power over the corpses of his compatriots. He is not a schizoid or a maniac. He comes from the environment of Russian executioners, who were raised for several generations in the special services of the GPU-NKVS-KGB-FSB. They were taught that the end justifies the means. Therefore, the organization of the ritual death of hundreds of people according to their logic is completely accepted. They were also taught to reckon with power. Therefore, the collective West has two options. Either let yourself be deceived, as the Russian people were 25 years ago or become strong and reject the misleading theories of coexistence with the Russian state, taking measures to dismantle it.
