Enemies for how long?

It didn’t work out in Moldova, but it worked out in Georgia. On July 21, the Georgian Parliament declared February 25 as the Day of Soviet Occupation. The government is recommended to organize events every February 25 in memory of the victims of the Soviet occupation of 1921. On this day, flags on government buildings should be lowered and a minute of silence declared.

Recently acting Moldavian President Mihai Ghimpu tried to declare June 28 the Day of Soviet Occupation, but the communist opposition opposed and challenged Ghimpu’s decree in the Constitutional Court. They said that the decree was illegal.

With Georgia, unlike Moldova, Russia, which is offended when someone touches the Soviet past, has practically no relations. It has been repeatedly stated that relations can improve only after the departure of current President Mikheil Saakashvili. Here, however, they managed without the president, so the long-term prospects for relations with Russia, frankly speaking, are unclear.