June 8, 2017 • 53 mins
In the final installment of our historical series, Eric Bowsfield joins Heather to talk about the history and evolution of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s home country, Chechnya. The region and its people have a fascinating but tragic past, facing centuries of violence and oppression at the hands of the Russian government. Together we navigate the hallmarks of imperialism, Russia’s conquest of the Caucasus, stereotypes of the Chechen ethnicity, and how all of this was used by the prosecutors against Dzhokhar at trial.
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Blog: http://usvtsarnaev.org
Twitter: http://twitter.com/USvTsarnaev
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/USvTsarnaev
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