Russian television channels, having forgotten the Olympics, are broadcasting reports from the shelled [South Ossetian capital] of Tskhinvali. Russia’s representative in the UN Security Council, Vitaly Churkin, is talking about a loss of faith in the Georgian leadership. The head of the international committee of the State Duma, Konstantin Kosachev, is calling for Georgia’s isolation.
There’s no point in being astonished at such words and emotions: there is a real war in the region, houses are crumbling, people are perishing. But if Russia’s leadership listened closely to the statements of their Georgian colleagues, they would recognize themselves –only during the period of their own war in the Caucasus.
After all, what did they speak about in Moscow during the epoch of carpet bombings in Grozny, street fighting in the Chechen mountains, “clean-up operations” (this word [zachistka] has become so widespread in the Russian language, that it is now used for any reason – both when a business needs to be taken away and when a parking space needs to be found)? They spoke of restoring Constitutional order. And were absolutely certain –not just the authorities, by the way, but a large part of society –that the best method for this restoration was precisely war, and not a tiresome negotiation process. That shooting enemies was much wiser than finding allies."
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