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What orders did Dudayev refuse to follow which led to him resigning from the Soviet Armed Forces?

  • To support the regime change

  • To attack a neighboring country

  • To crush Estonia’s independence

  • To enforce local control

Answer

In 1991, Dzhokhar Dudayev, an ethnic Chechen, was a major general in the Soviet Air Force. Dudayev refused to follow orders to crush Estonia’s independence, which led to his resignation from the Soviet Armed Forces. After the Soviet Union collapsed, Dudayev led Chechnya’s declaration of independence from Russia in 1991, which sparked the First Chechen War.
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