Not all of the West... Mexico fell into a recession in 94. And if we're talking highly developed countries (not necessarily Western), the 90s was when Japan began its stagnation that has continued to this day.
The Russian army in the 1990s is so fascinating to me - it almost seems to lack proper order, with soldiers wearing a wide variety of camouflages, carrying different gear and weapons modified as the wielder pleases, as well as the tanks, APCs, and IFVs in various conditions, with added ERA blocks and bags of stowage carried abroad them alongside several soldiers and weapons. I saw a T-72B that seemed to have an AGS-17 grenade launcher placed on the back. It’s all so very interesting and unique.
Fast forward to 2022 in Ukraine and very little has changed. Russians may have upgraded some of their weapons systems, but they're largely still the same poorly trained and poorly led army who still rely on their numbers and weight of firepower to achieve any kind of battlefield success. Thankfully their incompetence and ineptitude has allowed the Ukrainians to survive the initial Russian onslaught and now they're able to push back against them because the Russians have learned very little over the years in how to improve their army and make them a more effective fighting force.
It's because of the fall USSR before that there was discipline now they are trying to get discipline it's a large country which is hard but for Ukraine it's easy because it's a small coin
@@sebastianmujkic909 its true though. dont compare the chechen war with the balkans. chechen war was way more brutal. balkan wars looks like a playground infront of the brutality of 2 chechen wars.
And our hemisphere is on the brink of the same transition, the same level of civil and ethnic war...I said back in 2016, that we were gonna fracture into 3 unions and the USA wouldn't survive...now it's clear, that thru the "great reset' plan by the WEF, this was intended all along. It boggles my mind just how many are clueless about this inevitability
after fall of soviet union we had 10 years of criminal rule, gangsters, racket, murders on the streets and this chechen war I think you in usa had something like this in 20ies or 30ies
The tanker with the mustache not only looks like a Russian soldier, sounds like a Russian soldier, he has the vocabulary of a Russian soldier. His salty words would lose a great deal in translation.
That's a supressive fire not a precise shooting Ak-74u is onpy a supressive and survival crew's weapon of the pilots of helicopters like Mi-24 attack aircrafts like Su-25 and armored vehicules as tanis or Bmps.No need a precision here only for saving your ass after being shot down and waiting for the SAR helicopter or after a rpg attack if you're still alive to go back to friendlies poeitions.
That's not an AKS74u(krink) though. It's just an AKS74. The S in Cyrillic stands for folding and the U in Cyrillic means short., just as the K in German stands for short. So the MP5K is a compact weapon. These AKS74s have a full length barrel, and a side folding stock. The AKS74u barrel is a little over 8 inches. You can also tell that it's not the crew weapon because there is no booster on the muzzle, it's just a standard muzzle brake.
which was the whole tragedy of Chechen war... Yeltsin and his corrupted garbage mafia know as "High Command" sent reserves/recruits and all the young lads that had 0 combat experience against well u guessed it, trained, experienced and cunning chechens who were used to this kind of "activities" and were in their back yard. Too bad Yeltsin didnt die like a dog right there instead of those young guys who never saw their 19th Birthday. There`s even a song or two about how some of them lads wont see their 19th birthday in the lyrics.
@@mr.samcohen7954 you dont want fresh 18 year old recruits going against a force that has been fighting for many years and know alot more than these kids did, he's not sayin put 40 year old men out there but they should at least be in there early to late 20's
@@noahupshaw9825 Listen, his comment isn’t that deep (even though he wants it to be) he could of written some basic bitch thing for example:”politician lie” What he wrote just came across as cringe.
The russian army has lost a lot of soldiers, tanks and money and this war and if somebody say the russian army is strong I can only say: Even today in the year 2020 the russian army is not able to make sure that there is peace and order in this small country!
@@frankmueller6522 In the 90s, there was no Russian army, because the United States was" friends " of Russia and the United States supported the corrupt regime of Yeltsin and the bloody oligarchs. Nevertheless, now there is peace in Chechnya and this is a very rare case when the army managed to win in a partisan war.
Indeed, for some reason Conflicts in Eastern Europe and other post-Soviet states feel so damn brutal, bitter and hard to watch. At least that's how I feel it, I don't get the same feeling when watching footage about any other conflicts.
I was two years old when all of this happened, but I can still appreciate that all these post-soviet conflicts were basically mini civil wars between broken states after 80 years of oppression.
Entropy Yep ,cyka blyat! They aren’t true Russian soldiers without screaming that at the top of their lungs while simultaneously slinging 7.62’s at the enemy.
It looks like Alexander Sladkov asked them to perform some ''battle action'' for the camera. As much as he is brave, he is not stupid to stand up and shoot with camera during fire engagement
Even if it was just a show for the camera, I think they are not going to be necessarily picking targets out with any type of site in their situation, rather just laying down some fire down in a general area.
I recommend you guys read One Soldiers War. It's the 1st hand account of a Russian soldier during this conflict and it shows how terrible it was and how disorganized the Russian military was as well as how utterly merciless the Chechnya fighters were
.....because security cameras are far less expensive, and typically have to capture and store hundreds and hundreds of hours worth of footage so their output is usually horrendously compressed..
@The Small Farm Project - Regarding security cameras.. check the Japanese TV show called " CHEAT " which shows examples in one Episode of camouflaged wireless small cameras pre-installed into wall of an apartment ... like " invisible on the wall ". The technology is there and they showed it in the CHEAT Episode ^^
@@shanetonkin2850 security cameras are so insurance rates are decreased. In this day and age security cameras don’t save what they film to a hard tape.
A guy with a mustache on a tank says "They are shooting at us from 2 houses on the hill. And we are forbidden to shoot from a tank at houses. We are also forbidden to attack. Even 10 meters in front of us are not allowed to pass."
Most of those boys look like they were only a few years older than I was at that time. I know war is often unavoidable-but it never ceases to be heartbreaking…
Знаешь какие это хреновые времена для России были? Не только для армии, но и простых граждан РФ. Я тогда учился в первом классе и утром у отца спрашивал как мне съесть кусок хлеба, утром или на ужин. Повальное пьянство всей страной, просто от безысходности. Нет работы, нет денег, нет ни чего. И реально выживали за счет того что выращивали овощи на своих огородах. Посмотри на этих пацанов, одеты кто во что горазд. И сравни экипировку современного российского солдата. Это небо и земля. Сейчас солдат одет, обут накормлен всегда чисто одет. Но в 90е это было не так. Выживали как могли.
@@pqr6614 нет мне 34 года... Последствия развала Советского союза только только начинаются. Коронавирус и военная Спец. Операция на Украине по уничтожению Нацистов (ровно точно таких же как показано в этом документальном видеоролике) это еще цветочки.
@@pqr6614 🤣 not quite-I’m 36. The footage is dated as 1996, when I would’ve been around ten years old. Many of those young men fighting look to be in their mid-late teens (so only a few years older than I was at the time). Granted, I don’t know any of their personal details-so I’m purely speculating on their ages. Many of them could’ve simply been extremely young looking men in their 30’s, for all I know. 🤷♀️
For you guys I'll explain the situation. It was a day, when after a long time of cease-fire Chechen fighters attacked one of the cities. At that time city almost had no regular forces in it - just some small guard forces. So for these people in this video it was really hard day and really shitty situation. Chechens attacked from few different positions, using plenty of decentalized combat groups, mortars and RPGs, trying to get the key points to control the city, and these small guard forces were trying to stay alive until regular forces will come and help. So it's not kind of military operation, but a type of defensive battle.
you clearly can see the guy in 0:33 isnt into shooting, he closes his eyes when he shoots maybe he never shot before. so yeah they seem like a guards deployed in less dangerous areas
@@kamil_mugavara I've seen an original one, where operator himself told what happened that day and was explaining every moment You can watch the channel of this operator, "Сладков +", he has tons of footage from dozens of wars around the world
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="756">12:36</a> - cold, tired, hungry in a combat zone, and then your boot slips into a mud puddle. What a fucking day.
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="764">12:44</a> This is a military journalist who shot this footage, Alexander Valerievich Sladkov. In 2008, when he was filming a report on the war in Georgia, he was wounded.
There are tons of Checnya footage on his channel (Сладков плюс) and he said there are more and more so he'll continue to upload what he has in his archives
The murder rate the wars in Tajikistan chechnya and Dagestan the gangs poverty and corruption there's a russian saying "if u survived the 90s you can survive anything "
This was the war that fundamentally raised the question regarding tanks/AFV in cities during modern combat. I know one person who took part in the Battle of Grozny. Part of an infantry unit with the aim of protecting the tanks, he survived with serious injuries. Fully recovered now physically, he is wreck mentally. I think he still suffers from PTSD and panic attacks. He is unmarried and has no kids and I doubt that he ever will.
@A venti dble chchlate chip frappucino The Soviet/Russian army had not faced serious urban combat since Berlin, and as they were structured to fight a war of maneuver in central Europe, where urban areas would be bypassed whenever possible, they had largely forgotten how to fight in them. Grozny was a wake-up call for them, and the world.
People keep toting this around like they haven’t dumped all their resources into developing the most capable ICBM ever made, what does old equipment matter if Putin goes crazy and decides to level cities
@@zachwolves well so far no nukes were used, therefore the effectiveness to subjugate another nation is measured by the conventional weaponry, it's that simple. Also looking for all these "uh-uh uh you know what, it's totally fine that their army embarasses themselves 24/7 and their flagships sink due to 'fires' and 'storms', they just hold their sober elite units/wonder weapons etc back, also every setback is part of a 5D chess move, I swear Putin and Russia are still the greatest, please believe me!!!" is just pure cope.
They do it in case they step on a land mine, or get shot by an RPG. The probability of surviving these is higher while ride on the APC than inside of it. At least this is how it works with the soviet vehicles.
A little background info. The man at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="38">0:38</a>, driven insane by the war, went on to kill 16 czechoslovakians, before becoming an interior decorator. He eventually moved to New Jersey, USA.
Yes dude that is how actual warfare goes in real life sometimes. Enemies dont intend to show themselves and be shot like in movies. Both sides first hear gunshots from a direction they dont see the enemy they just know hes there so they return the fire. Just to supress the enemy forces.
Outworld?! Do you think that is like in a game, or movie?! Would like to see you in his place!!! You think real life war is one shot one kill?! Stupid kid
@@FireCampSecurity He was aiming he was just doing it very quick and holding the gun up to eye level rather than putting his chin to the stock, you even see him at around 0:09 hesitate and squint
That has only been the case temporarily and is already starting to go away. Even in WW2 suppressive fire used to mainly be a machinegunner's job. Marksmanship among troops was highly emphasized during training and of course combat. With high capacity mag fed rifles becoming common however, armies figured out that shooting to suppress was a good idea. But this was due to the very limited effective range of the weapons. With iron sights,no matter how good the soldier may be he cannot hit a man beyond 200m, at least not consistently enough. In the past couple of years however optics have become cheap and durable enough to the point that every rifleman can be issued with one. Variable magnification optics are especially good. These allow any rifleman to actually see the enemy and hit him. The need for taking pot shots towards the direction of the enemy will be lowered significantly, becoming once again the task of the MG only.
@@mdariff839 Russian army vs Chechen terrorists. In case you didn't know Chechnya is a region within Russia. The whole thing is about Chechnya declared independance, well, actually not the Chechnya itself but more like a terrorist cell effectively rulling Chechnya, but whatever and Russia didn't want to just let Chechnya go without the proper legal processes and all of that stuff. But Chechnya wanted out and like right away so they proceeded to bomb a few appartment blocks in Moscow. This is a very contraversial topic tho because there are some theories that maybe Putin staged this bombings to frame Chechen terrorists and go to war with them to gain popularity and eventually come to power as an authoritarian leader, but we will not go that rabbithole, it's in the same vain as "Bush planned the 9 11 attack", kinda makes sence in a way, but not at all confirmed. So yeah, that's how it all started, Russian troops were sent to Chechnya to deal with the terrorists and it all dragged on for like 18 years, a lot of people died, terrible war
@@ButterDog42069 Thanks for mentioning all the TRUTHS because thats how things happen, they dont investigate themselves. If checzya wanted independence they would be called terrorist, they would not make them legitimate as you mentioned even if they were fighting for freedom as other countries had gotten it.
The battalion commander expressed obscene language that the tank was incorrectly installed. But he swore, I must say, in a friendly way, angrily. ) Grumbles that there is no order to move forward.
Reminds me a bit of a time I once purchased a Russian ammo tin at surplus. After using the can opening tool it came with, I can see why none of them smile. Respect
@@danrook5757 That’s understandable, Afghanistan was a hellhole. But unlike Vietnam or US Afghanistan, it gets no real recognition other than a side note like “it set the stage for the Soviet collapse”
After the fall of the Soviet Union, these men were fighting largely without pay, almost entirely comprised of conscripts (forced to fight) and equipped with stuff that was outdated and to top it all they had shit logistics and Russian C&C has always been backwards and goofy. This was especially true of their air forces as well. The Russian Federation was bankrupt, politically in turmoil, and suffering from a variety of internal and foreign crises. They were just a ragtag militia, tbh.
I gotta say though, that man with the good ol' mustache in the thumbnail and at the start of the video looks like a badass cod character. Something like Reznov, badass tanker too Manly.
Incredible footage! Thank you for sharing! Do you know what troops these are? One looked like he was VDV there was another who was wearing a black tel'nyashka, so I assume he was a marine.
Не знаю правильно ли переведет мой комментарий Гугл, но тельняшки выдавали не только морской пехоте и десанту, но и бойцам внутренних войск и пехоты. Это связано с плохим оснащением армии в те годы, поэтому такие атрибуты ВДВ и Морской пехоты как тельняшки могли попасть в другие части как бельё для повседневного использования
My gfs dad was a Russian soldier in Chechnya he got drunk one night and told me stories about his service i respected him already but that made me respect him even more all the shit he saw and yet he doesn’t talk about it unless he’s drunk
From what I’ve read there was a lot of very close quarter combat in Chechnya. There were times when all the Russian soldier had to use as a weapon was his entrenching tool. I’ve seen demonstrations of Spetznaz fighting CQC with nothing but the entrenching tool. In their hands it’s a very deadly weapon. I’d much rather be shot than be beaten to death with an entrenching tool.. zRussian soldiers were/are incredibly dynamic and fierce in close quarters. They have a fearful reputation.
you sharpen the edges of your feldspaten, so it digs better, and so it's a better weapon. it's like a shovel, hatchet, shield, and club; all mixed up in one
The Russians have always been feared when it comes to CQC dating all the way back to the Russian revolution through ww2 the Germans were afraid to go head to head with Russians in hand to hand fighting in Stalingrad because they were so deadly up close
Lol so when you think of russia all you imagine is warfare and death? Nothing else? You do know russia has hot girls. Top 10 in the world. Dangerous though. I dated a couple. Be careful with anastasias and ekaterinas.
It's crazy this actually happened. It looks like something from a movie, but this shit happened. I had a friend who is Serbian, and he talked about the horrors that happened in that war, fucking brutal.
Typical. Russia, Yugoslavia, Chechnya, Bosnia - it's all the same, right? I guess you got one of them maps in your head which says "Santa claus lives here" for the North Pole
maybe someone who actually has been in combat? What a bunch of wankers shooting at civilians and showing that they are so stupid that instead of staying low they shoot from below the head levels of the turd burglars looking to see where the shots are going. If these are Russian troops thank lucky charms for gathering low iq's so close together.
Those old days made me think that it's easier to fight the war in an old classic way. Not like right now where you can get hit from any direction by laser cut accuracy missile strike.
Same thing they would be saying that time its easier to fight the war with swords pike shields bows arrows front to front in an old classice way Not like rifles shooting from a distance hiding in bushes
@@ANABOLIC_1105bro ngl, best thing you could hope for in a war is to die as fast and painless as possible, I'd rather get sh*t in the head and pass away in one second than get hit by swords and arrows hundreds of times, and die from pain or bleeding out days later, just my opinion.
