What we fought for

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

The Czech ambassador to the United States on Saturday issued a statement in which he asked not to confuse the Czech Republic with Chechnya. The diplomat's statement stems from the fact that many American social media users mistakenly ranked the ethnic Chechens of the Tsarnaev brothers, suspected of committing the terrorist attack during the Boston marathon, as Czechs.

“As new data on the origins of the suspects emerge, I am deeply saddened to note that a tragic mistake is often made on social media in this regard. The Czech Republic and Chechnya are two different entities. The Czech Republic is an Eastern European state, and Chechnya is a part of the Russian Federation,”reads a statement on the embassy's website.

Information that the organizers of the explosions during the Boston Marathon may be ethnic Chechens appeared in the American media about a day ago. However, many English-speaking users of social networks, discussing this data, confused Chechnya with the Czech Republic or even Czechoslovakia, which ceased to exist as a state in 1993. “What has America done to the Czech Republic? Where is this Czech Republic anyway? " "When will we invade Czechoslovakia?", Twitter users wrote.

A similar in scale embarrassment occurred in August 2008. Then some residents of the American state of Georgia were frightened by reports of the entry of Russian troops into the territory of Georgia (the names of the state of Georgia and the Republic of Georgia are spelled the same in English). For example, a worried American asked on the Yahoo! Answers: “I live in Georgia and don't see Russians anywhere. Not a sound is heard, but they say they brought in tanks. Should I be worried? In less than a day, one and a half hundred people answered her, and the question itself caused a wave of parodies and imitations in American blogs and social networks.

The Tsarnaev brothers are suspected of organizing a terrorist attack during the Boston marathon on April 15. As a result of two explosions, three people were killed and more than 180 were injured. The elder brother, Tamerlane, was killed in a shootout with the police on the night of April 19. The youngest, Johar, managed to escape. They were looking for him for almost a day in Boston and the surrounding area. On the evening of April 19, Dzhokhar was found in a boat in the backyard of a house in Watertown and detained. The suspect was taken to the hospital as he was wounded and in serious condition. The brothers lived in America for a long time. Their parents live in Makhachkala.

Just now, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, suspected of committing terrorist attacks during the Boston Marathon, was detained by the Boston police. Dzhokhar was hiding under a small boat in the yard of one of the houses, it took the police a lot of time to persuade him to surrender - the terrorist was needed alive. Additional stress was introduced by the fact that the boat had a full tank of fuel that could explode at any moment.

As a result, after negotiations with the police, Dzhokhar surrendered, nothing threatens his life, and his interrogations will begin in the near future - so today or tomorrow we will learn a lot of interesting things about the mysterious Chechen soul, who, in response to the benevolent reception from the American state, staged terrorist attacks.

It's funny that among Tsarnaev's favorite videos on YouTube was the famous Chechen bard Timur Mutsurayev, praising the delights of jihad against infidels - although the American liberal press has already launched an attack, starting to accuse American society that the Tsarnaev family could not adapt to it. It is also characteristic that both Tsarnaevs, the elder and the younger, were engaged in martial arts, despite their long life in America ("brother-wrestler").

In the American press, all sorts of complicated words are already heard about "identity crisis", "loyalty rift" and other psychology, but every Russian who sees a Chechen with Mutsurayev in his player and a subscription to wrestling in his pocket would classify him absolutely unambiguously. In The New Yorker, Ioffe even sarcastically about the fact that the Tsarnaevs' relatives walk to the United States in macas (though not red ones).

It's funny that an absolutely typical Caucasian caused a shock in American society - so, on Fox News, one of the analysts was already surprised that the United States opposed the Russian war in Chechnya, why then blow up the United States? I suggest that while Americans try to comprehend the "mysterious Chechen soul" in terms of "identity crisis", stock up on popcorn and watch the only superpower trying to understand our … um … compatriots, whose behavior we are almost used to. Think, Americans, think you have big heads, maybe you’ll come up with something (besides the leftist chatter about "the poor boy who is clung to the environment" - we have a whole republic of such boys here!).