>>46448
>That would explain it, they have songs about the Chechen wars as well. It's odd in a way, these songs are often quite depressing and describe war as something awful that they are forced to do and only want to leave, it's not something you would expect to be tolerated in a society like the USSR.

These songs mostly a folk reaction to events, not official propaganda that was strictly controlled by state. Of course you couldn't sing purely antisoviet songs openly, but there were no way to suppress negativity, especially in late USSR where everything gone wrong.

Relations of society and army in USSR (and Russia) are very specific because nationwide conscription, but this is pretty large thing to discuss in this thread. Almost everyone had some relation to army (everyone at least know someone who served in army, often having some relative who serves right now). So every big military engagement produced large impact on society, especially when there are casualties and rumors (USSR censored much about Afghan, so there were plenty of countrywide negative rumors). Chechnya was even worse.