German Sadulaev
Autor de I am a Chechen!
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Садулаев, Герман Умаралиевич
- Otros nombres
- Sadulaev, German Umaralievich
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1973-02-02
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Russian Federation
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Shali, Chechen-Ingush ASSR, USSR
- Lugares de residencia
- Shali, Chechen-Ingush ASSR, USSR
St. Petersburg, Russia - Educación
- Leningrad State University (law)
- Ocupaciones
- lawyer
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
Caucasus (1)
Premios
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 5
- También por
- 2
- Miembros
- 47
- Popularidad
- #330,643
- Valoración
- 3.9
- Reseñas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 7
- Idiomas
- 2
- Favorito
- 1
Most enjoyable to read were the sections describing Chechnya in more peaceful times - the beauty of the landscape, the childhood games, the Chechen customs and way of life. However, many of Sadulaev's friends and acquaintances seemed to become the victims of the wars and the brutality of the subsequent Chechen regime, about which the author does not hide his bitterness or anger. I say "seemed", because I was never sure what was fact and what was fiction. One of the most compelling sections dealt with the author's childhood friendship with a boy who spent his summers in the author's hometown of Shali, living the rest of the time in Soviet Turkmenistan. Both boys were half-Russian, half-Chechen, yet ended up on opposing sides when the conflict came. I would love to know how much of that was based on truth.
The title is important, because Sadulaev often doubts whether he is worthy of being a Chechen, Chechens being fearless individuals who fight to the end. After all, he "deserted" his motherland to study and make a career for himself in Leningrad/St Petersburg; perhaps he has become "one of them", a Russian. Yet the Russians see him only as a Chechen (and therefore as a likely terrorist/criminal).
While I was left feeling shocked and indignant at Russia's behaviour in Chechnya, Sadulaev is equally contemptuous of the Chechen rebels and the "beards" attempting to radicalise a region that has always followed a more personal and joyful and less rigid form of Islam.
Highly recommended to those interested in the region.… (más)