Claim

During the Chechen wars of 1999–2009, India's left parties supported Russia's military action and never asked Putin to stop, yet they ask Modi to be soft on Pakistan.

“What did Russia do during the Chechen wars from 1999 to 2009?... the left parties in India supported the Russian action against the Chechens.”

Rationale

The specific factual core — that India's left parties (CPI/CPI-M) formally supported Russia's military action against the Chechens and never asked Putin to stop — is not documented by any Indian fact-checker or primary source. Available records cover the Indian government's pro-Russia UN voting, not the left parties' position on Chechnya, and show no party statement of support (nor of opposition). Because there is no evidence substantiating the asserted historical position, the claim cannot be confirmed; it functions as an unsupported rhetorical (whataboutism) assertion rather than a verifiable fact.

Evidence

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_response_to_the_Second_Chechen_War Documents international reactions to Russia's 1999–2009 Chechnya campaign; lists governments and bodies that criticised or stayed silent, but records no position by India's CPI or CPI(M) either supporting or opposing the Russian action. ✓ reachable · archived
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_India_(Marxist) Overview of CPI(M)'s history and foreign-policy positions; contains no record of a party statement backing Russia's military action against the Chechens during 1999–2009. ✓ reachable · archived
• https://commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/news-events/blogs/understanding-indias-approach-russia-ukraine-war-realpolitik Notes India's broadly pro-Moscow posture (e.g., voting against a 2003 UN resolution condemning Russia's use of force in Chechnya) was the Indian government's realpolitik, not a documented left-party stance. ✗ unreachable · HTTP 403