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Once you let go, the reasoning goes, where would it end? In 1917, in 1941 and 1942, and in 1991 the Outer Empire fell apart, with vast repercussions throughout the Inner Empire. Putin has certainly not forgotten the early 1990s when another war in Chechnya threatened to ignite fires elsewhere, in oil-rich Tatarstan, almost 1000 kilometres north.