Roger Hicks
Veteran
Dear Arvay,
Ummm...
Hold on a minute.
No-one comes out of this very well.
The Georgian regime is not quite as legitimate as they (or their chums in the west) like to pretend, and it seems likely that they have not behaved well towards South Ossetia.
Equally, the Sudetenlanders in Czechoslovakia had legitimate complaints, which gave Hitler the excuse to invade.
Often, the difference between 'excuse' and 'reason' depends on which position you take in a historical debate. Vladimir Vladimirovich has (in my view) played this cleverly, but that doesn't mean he's 100% in the right. Or that he's 100% in the wrong.
How far do you take Balkanization? My country, Cornwall, has been occupied by the English for over 1000 years. That's probably a good thing. We're too small to stand on our own. So, I think, is South Ossetia. Why were they incorporated in Georgia in the first place? I don't know enough history to explain this. Perhaps you do. I'm not being patronizing, I genunely don't know.
To dismiss this as 'the Political Anti-Russian Club' sounds a bit like the sort of redneck American who interprets the slightest criticism of his country as grounds for invasion.
I for one would be interested to hear a Russian view of this (and I'll hear more when I see Russian friends at photokina).
Cheers,
Roger
Spyderman
Well-known
I wanted to reply, but now I see that it was right that I did not reply.
but anyway: I didn't write "russians" as a nation, but "Russian army" as russian army. It's a fact. Nothing more, nothing less.
EDIT: and I know enough about the 40 years ago events.
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