The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956; An Experiment in Literary Investigation Parts 5-7

But there was one nation which would not give in, would not acquire the mental habits of submission—and not just individual rebels among them, but the whole nation to a man [...] The Chechens never sought to please, to ingratiate themselves with the bosses; their attitude was always haughty and indeed openly hostile [...] And here is an extraordinary thing—everyone was afraid of them. No one could stop them from living as they did. The regime which had ruled the land for thirty years could not force them to respect its laws. (p. 423)