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Prior to the summer of 1994, I considered myself an ordinary person. I was not involved in politics, and I had the equivalent of a master of arts in political science from Rostov State University in Rostov on the Don. I had served in the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces for almost five years when I was demobilized in 1985. I held a minor clerical job in the Chechen Foreign Ministry for about six months in 1992 under Foreign Minister Shamil Beno.
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This event is described in Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, Chechnya Bitva za Svobodu, (L’vov: Svoboda Narodov, 1996), pp. 285– 286. He described this as an attempted coup d’etat but I don’t think it was perceived that way by the participants. They tried to force Dudayev to accept their terms, but they were not willing to attempt any use of force against him. As far as I know, Dudayev simply talked them out of it.
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Akhmadov, I., Lanskoy, M. (2010). The War Begins. In: The Chechen Struggle Independence Won and Lost. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230117518_1
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