Chapter 1670 Zoya is here?
The Kashin family's resort is actually designed in a pastoral style, and they don't expect to make money from it - Kashin's annual income is higher than that of small business owners in Russia. Most of Kashin's income goes to his family.
Just for this reason, Xiao Peng admires Kasim very much.
Kashin's parents are amazing cooks! They cook Chechen-style food.
In Russia's vast territory, Chechnya is a special existence: not to mention its strategic location, it is known as the "lifeline of the South Caucasus". The largest trade route pass in the Caucasus Mountains is Chechnya. It also connects Russia's oil pipelines and railway lines to Europe. It is an indispensable key node for Russia to control the Eurasian border.
This is why after the disintegration of the former Soviet Union, so many countries could split away, including Ukraine, but they would never allow Chechnya to be lost, not to mention that Chechnya itself has considerable oil reserves!
However, due to historical, cultural and other factors, Chechnya is also considered to be "a scorpion's shit - poisonous and unique" in the whole of Russia.
Based on evidence such as cave murals and stone agricultural tools discovered by archaeologists in the Chechen region, many scholars speculate that human habitation in Chechnya has lasted for more than 8,000 years and that this is also the birthplace of the Caucasian race in Europe.
Eurasia boasts two great territories: Afghanistan to the south and Chechnya to the north. Occupied by the Mongols in the 14th century, Chechnya has been plagued by conflict ever since. The Mongol, Ottoman, Persian, and Russian Empires each took their turn conquering the region, each driven out by a new one. Tsarist Russia's history is a cycle of invasion, resistance, occupation, invasion, resistance, and occupation. It wasn't until 1774, when Catherine the Great, Russia's only female empress, defeated the Ottoman Empire, that Chechnya, along with Georgia, became a vassal state of Tsarist Russia.
Of course, the Ottoman Empire was unwilling to accept defeat. After occupying Chechnya for so long, the Ottoman Empire secretly supported the Chechen Muslims in establishing the "Checheniya" to fight against Tsarist Russia. This led to the outbreak of the Caucasus War in 1829. This war was protracted, and in the end, the Chechens continued to expand their territory through the war and began to invade Tsarist Russia!
This also led to the full-scale counterattack by Tsarist Russia in 1859, which directly defeated Chechnya and incorporated it into its territory. At that time, all the staunch religious figures in Chechnya were driven to the Ottoman Empire.
However, this move by the Tsarist Russia failed to bring Chechnya to heel. Instead, it triggered decades of unrest. Hundreds of Chechen armed forces retreated into the mountains and engaged in guerrilla warfare against the Russian army. The Tsarist Russia also imposed a long-term, iron-fisted rule on Chechnya, imposing nightly curfews, large-scale searches, arrests, and even executions. This regime lasted for at least half a century, leading to a constant conflict between the two countries.
This situation did not change until the October Revolution.
At that time, the Soviet Union had just been established and was in turmoil, so it had no time to intervene in Chechnya. At that time, Chechnya and Ingushetia merged into an autonomous region. Chechnya finally had a period of peaceful development with the Soviet Union for more than 20 years, and joined the Soviet Union as a member state in 1936. At that time, everything seemed to be going well.
During World War II, Germany broke its non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union and invaded the country. Before the Soviets could launch their counterattack, they discovered that some Chechens had reached an agreement with the Germans: the Chechens would help the Germans fight the Soviets, and the Germans would help the Chechens "restore their independence." So, the Soviets, adopting the principle of "pacifying the country before resisting foreign aggression," resolved the Chechen crisis before even launching their counterattack: they expelled 400,000 Chechens to Siberia and left them to fend for themselves. Thus, the Soviets resolved the Chechen crisis.
Until the day the Soviet Union collapsed, trouble arose: Chechnya wanted independence, but the Republic of Ingushetia was unwilling to do so, so it simply "separated" from Chechnya. This made the Chechens even more unbridled and repeatedly caused trouble in Russia. Then began several Chechen wars.
Despite having a small population, Russia suffered numerous setbacks in the Chechen Wars, thanks to Western support and the complex terrain. It wasn't until the Great Emperor came to power and swept through Chechnya with an army of 100,000 that the Chechens finally calmed down. It wasn't until 2009 that Russia announced the lifting of the state of war with Chechnya and began providing aid and reconstruction.
Kashin said everything in Chechnya is brand new. For Chechens today, nothing is more precious than peace, and no one wants to disrupt this peaceful life. Anyone who tries to cause trouble there is courting death: traffic police there direct traffic with submachine guns, and walking the streets at night is perfectly safe.
And that place is also very interesting: it turns out that the reason why Chechnya and Russia have been at war for more than 200 years is because of religion. Most people in Chechnya are Muslims, while Russians are Orthodox Christians. Since the end of the war, religion has become the bond for the integration of the two countries: Russia paid for the construction of the Ahmat Mosque, which is now the largest in Chechnya and also the largest in Europe, and also assisted in the construction of the "Russian YSL University"!
The Russians, who primarily practice Eastern Orthodoxy, generously funded the establishment of a Muslim university in Chechnya. This kind of support is unheard of in European and American countries, which often tout religious freedom. The Chechens, in turn, are grateful for the support. Many Chechen Muslims have donated money to pastors in Chechnya to build churches.
Although Chechnya is an Muslim country, it is the ethnic group that has been least influenced by culture, especially now that it has become more secular due to the mutual influence with Russia. Although they do not eat pork, they can drink alcohol, and women are not forced to wear headscarves. There is no traditional Muslim country custom of arranged marriages for women.
Anyway, the current Chechnya is a harmonious place in Kashin's mouth, which makes Xiao Peng want to go and see it.
What attracted him most was that Chechen cuisine tasted really good.
The meal that Kasin's parents treated Xiao Peng and his friends to was "Ganash", which is known as the "national dish of Chechnya". The dough is made with beef and mutton soup, and then chicken, mutton, beef and spices are used to make "dumplings". The wrapped "dumplings" are then fried in a pan and then cooked in a specially prepared broth.
Taking a bite of the cannashi and sipping the broth perfectly aligns with the Daxia tradition of "using the original soup to make the original food." Coupled with the unique flavor, Xiao Peng devoured it with such relish! The group chatted while eating, creating a lively atmosphere.
But the good atmosphere did not last long. When they were enjoying their meal, they suddenly heard dogs barking outside the door: Kashin's parents raised four Caucasian Shepherd Dogs - this big dog born in the Caucasus region is the favorite of Chechens.
"Who is it?" Evelina Kasinya frowned as she glanced through the glass at the door. "Why is she here?"
Kasim asked, "Mom, who's here?"
"It's Zoya! Let her in?"
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