Posted on 11/03/2022 9:42:43 PM PDT by Cronos
The messages are spray painted across the city, thousands of them, cursing Russian President Vladimir Putin and telling Russians to “go home.” Many restaurants and cafes, including the ones where Russians hang out, pointedly display signs declaring their support of Ukraine. A few even demand loyalty pledges, saying that Russians should enter only if they first condemn the invasion or denounce Putin as a dictator.
“We need to make sure that brainwashed Russian imperialists do not end up in our bar,” reads the declaration form at the Daedana bar.
...Many Georgians say the recent months have been deflating, as they try to square how Russians could wage war in their country and 14 years later use it as a haven.
...While the first wave of Russians consisted heavily of intellectuals opposed to Putin, with some even joining anti-Kremlin protests in Tbilisi, Georgians suspect the newer wave is less ideological. Many Russians just don’t want to die in what they see as a bad war.
.. “I don’t know what they want with our land,” said Darejan Narikashvili, 66, another villager, on the Georgian side. “Russia is huge. Don’t they have enough land as it is?”
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Fleeing to Georgia to vote for Stacey Abrams.
Payback for Stalin.
So you think the Jews in Nazi Germany were like the Russians in Georgia? Do you deny the holocaust?
Well, the questions faced by the Georgians are
1. Do these Russians really oppose Putin’s invasion of Ukraine or just are trying to save their own skins? Note the “just are”
2. Will Russia then in the future claim to “protect Russian speakers” by invading Georgia?
Maybe they went to Georgia for the game against Tennessee this Saturday.🐸
Russians liberated the Jews
Approximately how many Russians have fled to Georgia to escape the draft?
Wasn’t Stalin Georgian?
LOL. Funny movie.
One of my top-five favorite movies.
What movie is that?
One, Two, Three
Never heard of it. I’ll have to try and catch it one of these days. Thanks.
It’s great, Cagney gives one of the all-time great comedy performances ever.
Nope. Russians were the ones who first started persecuting the in pogroms in the 1800s.
Then in world war 2, they didn’t liberate anyone, the soviets just conquered territory that the nazis had conquered 5 years earlier. And then they persecuted people
Less well known is that so was Lavrentiy Beria.
On September 27th the number was 78,000
Today it is probably closer to 150,000
That’s quite a lot for a country of 3.7 million people. Like 5% of the population
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