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of thousands of chechens perished in a mass deportation ordered by joseph stalin. in the 1990s chechens fought and won a bloody war for independence from russia. it was during this violence that the younger tsarnaev brother dzhokhar was born and given the name of a chechen leader. >> it's a sure sign of chechen patriotism in the family that in 1993 they called their little son dzhokhar, after dzhokhar dudaev, who was the pro-independence president. >> reporter: but chechen independence wouldn't last. another war with russia would kill thousands. and chechen extremists would wage a campaign of terror across russia, killing 186 children at a school in beslan, and more than 100 theatergoers in moscow. the tsarnaev family escaped the violence of the region by making their way to the u.s. >> he would tell me that he's from chechnya.