Georgia, a difficult way to Europe

Alik Bakhshi

Georgia, a difficult way to Europe

   To be honest, I had a better opinion about the maturity of the Georgian people in the sense of being more advanced in terms of democracy among the peoples of the Caucasus. However, the coming to power of the oligarch Bidzin Ivanishvili and his pro-Russian party with the loud name “Georgian Dream”, which intends to push through the law on foreign agents, designed, as in Putin’s Russia, to combat dissent, gave reason to doubt this.

   The first is how it was possible to elect oligarch Bidzin Ivanishvili to power. Wasn't the example of what happened to Ukraine enough? There, too, with the help of the murderer and liar Putin, the oligarch Yanukovych came to power, promising the Ukrainian people entry into the EU and subsequently deceiving them, plunging the country into a bloody hell. The very fact that Ivanishvili is an oligarch who had a secret business in Russia should have alerted the people of Georgia, because the very word oligarchs is a caste of people parasitic on society who found themselves in power with the help of wealth acquired through criminal machinations. By the way, Ivanishvili, like the oligarch Yanukovych, who was in prison, was convicted by a Tbilisi court and sentenced to pay a fine of $90 million for bribing voters. But this fact did not alert the Georgian public.

   Second, according to a report by the US Agency for International Development, “Georgia’s richest oligarch Ivanishvili has seized the state, which has led to impunity for corrupt officials and Georgia’s growing economic dependence on Russia.” Ivanishvili’s capital is the result of a secret business, like other Russian oligarchs, amassed not without connections with corrupt government officials. Undoubtedly, Putin’s agents helped in organizing Ivanishvili’s Georgian Dream party and its victory in the parliamentary elections. I believe that the Georgian Dream party is called upon to fulfill not the dream of the Georgian people to join the democratic countries of Europe, but Putin’s dream of throwing Georgia into the orbit of his policy, the ultimate goal of which is to return Georgia again to the fold of the Russian Empire. It must be said that Ivanishvili uses the same false and absurd words, echoing Putin’s nonsense that the West is encroaching on the sovereignty, national identity and identity of the Georgian people. Here it would be nice to remember that it was the West that stopped Russian tanks on the approach to Tbilisi in 2008, and it may well be that otherwise today Georgian soldiers were dying in Ukraine along with the Buryats, Bashkirs and other colonial peoples of the Russian Empire.

   Ivanishvili, at the insistence of Putin, wants to pass through parliament, where his party has a majority of votes, a law on foreign agents, with the help of which it will be possible to control the media before the upcoming elections in order to achieve a landslide victory. However, the people of Georgia, and what is especially encouraging for their youth, are aware of the dangerous situation the country may find itself in if Putin, through his protege Ivanishvili, manages to carry out his insidious plan. It should be noted here that Ivanishvili, copying Putin, who organized a kind of guardsmen called the National Guard to fight dissent, also created the State Security Service, separating it from the structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which today confronts the people who have rebelled against Ivanishvili and his treacherous Georgian Dream party.

It looks like Putin's Russia will break its teeth in Georgia. The Georgian people are not the Russian, uninitiated, silent people of serfs.

   05/05/2024