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Russians fleeing to Georgia face resentment, graffiti, loyalty tests at bars
Washington post ^ | 2 November 2022 | Chicory Harlan

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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(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Russia
KEYWORDS: georgia; putin; russia; russians
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"Russia is huge. Don’t they have enough land as it is?”
1 posted on 11/03/2022 9:42:43 PM PDT by Cronos
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Fleeing to Georgia to vote for Stacey Abrams.


3 posted on 11/03/2022 9:46:52 PM PDT by RightWingNutJob69
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To: Cronos

4 posted on 11/03/2022 9:48:20 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Cronos

Payback for Stalin.


5 posted on 11/03/2022 9:49:18 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: mylife

So you think the Jews in Nazi Germany were like the Russians in Georgia? Do you deny the holocaust?


6 posted on 11/03/2022 10:04:13 PM PDT by Cronos
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To: dfwgator

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?


7 posted on 11/03/2022 10:06:09 PM PDT by Cronos
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To: RightWingNutJob69

Maybe they went to Georgia for the game against Tennessee this Saturday.🐸


8 posted on 11/03/2022 10:09:57 PM PDT by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal! )
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To: Cronos

Russians liberated the Jews


9 posted on 11/03/2022 10:14:09 PM PDT by mylife (And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids...)
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To: Cronos

Approximately how many Russians have fled to Georgia to escape the draft?


10 posted on 11/03/2022 10:34:21 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: dfwgator

Wasn’t Stalin Georgian?


11 posted on 11/03/2022 11:01:21 PM PDT by Jacob Kell ("I would rather go hunting with Kyle Rittenhouse....than make a movie with Alec Baldwin")
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To: dfwgator

LOL. Funny movie.


12 posted on 11/03/2022 11:07:58 PM PDT by Windcatcher (Time to fly the black flag -- one of no quarter for Marxists.)
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To: Windcatcher

One of my top-five favorite movies.


13 posted on 11/03/2022 11:12:13 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

What movie is that?


14 posted on 11/03/2022 11:13:54 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

One, Two, Three


15 posted on 11/03/2022 11:14:33 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Never heard of it. I’ll have to try and catch it one of these days. Thanks.


16 posted on 11/03/2022 11:17:19 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

It’s great, Cagney gives one of the all-time great comedy performances ever.


17 posted on 11/03/2022 11:17:48 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: mylife

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


18 posted on 11/03/2022 11:28:29 PM PDT by Cronos
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To: Jacob Kell
It's well known that Stalin was Georgian.

Less well known is that so was Lavrentiy Beria.

19 posted on 11/03/2022 11:30:07 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: SeekAndFind

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


20 posted on 11/03/2022 11:30:18 PM PDT by Cronos
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