Chechen leadership reminded Shamanov of the purges and Budanov

Ramzan Kadyrov and Adam Delimkhanov, a week late, angrily responded to General Vladimir Shamanov's criticism of the name changes in Chechnya. Kadyrov called Shamanov a "hyena," and Delimkhanov a coward and a saboteur.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot," on September 25, the State Duma debated bills to rename three Chechen cities, and deputies approved them in the first reading. General Vladimir Shamanov, a veteran of the Chechen wars, called the renaming of Cossack villages in Chechnya an erasure of historical memory after the Russian-speaking population was expelled from the republic. The Chechen authorities only directly responded to his speech on October 2nd - Ramzan Kadyrov called Shamanov a criminal who should be brought to trial. Initially, the Chechen authorities used residents to object to Deputy Shamanov.

On the evening of October 2, the head of Chechnya published two posts dedicated to Shamanov. In the first, he personally addressed the general, inviting him to go "to the front lines in the SVO zone"; at the same time, Kadyrov promised Shamanov that they would "meet in court."

“Your ‘rich experience’, which you accumulated by tormenting civilians, is known to us firsthand (...) You publicly defended Budanov, the murderer of a defenseless Chechen girl. For us, he will forever remain a symbol of the atrocities and shame of that time, and your name now stands alongside his. You must kneel and ask the Chechen people for forgiveness for the murder of civilians, the looting, and the destruction,” Kadyrov wrote.

In a second publication dedicated to Shamanov, Kadyrov contrasted him with General Gennady Troshev, who "managed to take Gudermes, Nozhai-Yurtovsky, and Kurchaloyevsky districts of the republic without a fight."

"Two generals. Only Troshev left behind a good name, which we immortalized on a street in Grozny. And the other is a hyena, who in Urus-Martan alone led innocent people out of their homes and killed them, and who should be court-martialed," the post reads.

State Duma Deputy Adam Delimkhanov supported Kadyrov's words on Telegram – not only on his own behalf, but on behalf of all State Duma deputies and Federation Council senators from Chechnya.

He called Shamanov a "failed general," claiming that his criticism of the initiative to rename populated areas insults both the residents of these cities and the Chechen soldiers on the front lines. Like Kadyrov, Delimkhanov stated that Shamanov will have to "answer before the law."

“It was precisely false patriots and hypocrites like Shamanov who unleashed the carnage and utter chaos in the Chechen Republic. It’s enough to recall his subordinate, the war criminal Budanov, who committed the massacre of a Chechen girl. Moreover, we are well aware of all his crimes against the Chechen people: the murder of civilians, robberies, and destruction. Shamanov hates the Chechen people, which is why, like a coward and saboteur, he still tries to sow discord everywhere. Apparently, he’s dissatisfied with his failure to completely destroy us. This idiot should beg forgiveness from all our people, and then sit in prison and answer for his war crimes,” Delimkhanov’s post reads.

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