Exactly as I thought. Zero sources.
In fact, the Chechens revolted against the Bolsheviks as early as 1920.
Despite this, they and other peoples of the Caucuses were viewed by Lenin two years later in the following terms:
>>It is quite natural that in such circumstances the "freedom to secede from the union" by which we justify ourselves will be a mere scrap of paper, unable to defend the non-Russians from the onslaught of that really Russian man, the Great-Russian chauvinist, in substance a rascal and a tyrant, such as the typical Russian bureaucrat is. There is no doubt that the infinitesimal percentage of Soviet and sovietised workers will drown in that tide of chauvinistic Great-Russian riffraff like a fly in milk.<<
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1922/dec/testamnt/autonomy.htm
If Stalin, who was at least some kind of socialist in 1922 despite his bullying, was described in terms of Great-Russian riffraff, what would Lenin make of a capitalist politician like "Pootie-Poot" Putin?
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