Re: Georgia, Russia - demonstrating democracy ....

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Karen Gordon says...
>
>Karen Gordon says...
>>>(K): THIS is how a country removes a leader they do not want.  If the
>>>U.S. had truly wanted a better leader for the Iraqi people, they would
>>>have been able to convince the Iraqis that there was a better way and
>>>that Iraqis could make that choice - with the backing of the coountries
>>>of the United Nations.  The U.S. invaded a country that they had weakened
>>>through years of sanctions and embargos.
>>>
>>>The Russian people have shown the world that they, the people under a
>>>government they wanted gone, were the ONLY ones to depose that government.
>>>No interference from a country that is known for its imperialism under the
>>>pretext of 'world policeman'.
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>Blair Sheridan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:
>> Karen,
>> Russians and Georgians are not the same people.  They're as similar as
>> Englishmen and Spaniards.
>
>(K): Georgians are very much 'Russians'.  Any newly-formed 'states' after
>the breakup of the Soviet Union did not make the inhabitants of these
>states any less 'Russian' - just sovereign.  They were born in the USSR, 
>they speak Russian, and they eat bortsch.  That's as Russian as anyone gets.

Karen,

I don't want to get into a tussle over this, but trust me:  they are two
separate ethnic groups.  Russians are Slavs - Georgians are not.  Their
languages are as similar as English and Sanskrit.  The fact that many Georgians
are bilingual and speak Russian (though their accent was regularly satirized in
Soviet films) doens't make that fact any less true.  After all, many Kazakhs,
Turkmen, Estonians, Latvians, and Nentsy, etc.  were also born in the USSR,
speak Russian and may have partaken of borshch at some time, but that doesn't
make them any more Russian than being born in Cardiff would make an ethnic Arab
into an ethnic Celt.

>Engishmen and Spaniards have nothing in common - except their invasion of 
>Iraq alongside the damnable U.S. invader.

My point exactly.  Nothing in common, except a Soviet past and Orthodox religion
(though Georgians will be quick to point out that they adopted it first) much
like the English and Spanish have the European present.

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>Blair Sheridan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes: 
>> Anyway, for another perspective on the Georgia turmoil, have a look at this: 
>> 
>> http://www.exile.ru/178/178010101.html
>> Posted as food for thought.
>
>(K): Thanks for the link....... it explains why Georgia has become such
>a hotbed of unrest:  American interference and influence.  Lord, the U.S.
>is vile.....

An interesting view.  The Exile's always fun to read.