Putin's Challenge

Patricia Ibarra
Andrews
World History II
22 April 2013



      When reading the article about Putin's challenge: The Circassians and the Winter Olympics, I found it interesting to read about how many Muslim people identified themselves as Adyghe who had suffered greatly due to the expanding imperial Russia who had taken over their home. But these people didn't just stand and watch them just take their home. The Circassians fought back but the russians didn't like this so they decided to eliminate them by killing them off or by deporting them which is very cruel because these people had done nothing. I think a good way that Putin could have handled this situation for having the olympics set at Sochi, the Russian resort city, was to realize that Sochi was the site of the Circassians capital and the place where the Ubykh tribe made the Circassian "last stand" in 1864, which had an important significant to the people. Not realizing that this was the place where thousands of killings had been taken place and not acknowledging this, is a complete sign of disrespect and not caring for the loss of the people. Another way that Putin could also show how he wants to take action and be a good person is by him keeping his promise  to extend human rights, dignity with full respect for identity, democratic representation and economic opportunities to all citizen. This would give Russia the chance to have equal rights for everyione and maintaining equal economic needs. Being able to reach out to the people and giving them motivations as to why they should continue to live after the struggles they had to overcome, is a good way to have the respect and trusrt from the people.