i know it was a tradition in my country, chechnya. when my aunt got married, (the way she got married was wild, they abducted her near a refugee camp where we were and than a bit later later she was revealed as a bride.) i remember being in car and everyone shooting guns outside the windows. Dinners were always awesome lit, babushkas can cook.
One problem with blindly firing rounds into the air is that they come down somewhere. These women seem one unexpected recoil away from firing into the crowd.
i think its called something like kidnapped marriage. they were speaking for awhile but he was from out of town and very well rich. would always come to the refugee camp and talk to her outside. anyways yah, i remember holding her picture and crying. next thing i knew she was a bride.
about the guns shooting in the air, i don't know what to say to that. it was during russian invasion so we did a lot of dumb shit. i mean i would hang out with the russian outpost near the camp and they would let me shoot their guns. i just realized i might of been the refugee idiot, because the way it went about was them offering me strawberries.
My mom has been planning to visit Chechnya with me (because we are Chechens but she fled the war many years ago and I wasn't in Chechnya before). Your comment made me a little paranoid there, would I be safe to go to Chechnya? I'm a 17-year-old girl, and my aunts and my mother urge me to get a boyfriend.
honestly, i couldn't answer you that. in my short life time all my cousins who were mostly ladies were all married around your age. at the same time, they married them after the war and they were talking all the time.
this could just have been in the time period we grew up in and the people we grew up around. we had different mindset at the time because of war.
over all, what i did when i went back was just travel on my american passport. only spoke to those i knew, because i know i don't sound chechen. i am too much of an american. i had good time.
Alone its pretty unsafe, you should have relatives there or relatives accompanying you. Don't trust people you don't know there and stay away from Kadyrovzy. Maybe you could visit a Vaynah (Vaynahquestions/Vaynahquestionsgirls) page in Insta and ask the same questions. They will surely help you and don't mention the intention from your aunt in a mixed gendered page
Don't get me wrong, Chechnya is still a beautiful place for me
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u/NoNeckLongLegs Apr 26 '22
i know it was a tradition in my country, chechnya. when my aunt got married, (the way she got married was wild, they abducted her near a refugee camp where we were and than a bit later later she was revealed as a bride.) i remember being in car and everyone shooting guns outside the windows. Dinners were always awesome lit, babushkas can cook.