haha yaeh that was pretty much as spacey as i could ever want
Democracy takes time... that's very true. I liked your comparison with germany... I've just been through the same era in danish history (with two wars against germany btw

) and it's pretty much the same story...
What's important is that democracy comes from the inside... cause then, even when it fails the first time, there will still be a desire...
The problem here is that the Chechnens don't want russian democracy... they want Chechnyan democracy.
The sad thing about this is that even if a second democracit expirence will be more peaceful, we still have to wait until that day...