The underworld of the empire

Turgenev described the afterlife kiss of Clara Milich. But the fact that we observe in Georgia is not a healing kiss, but a dagger dagger. The blow of the dead empire (first Russian, then Soviet), which with a stone, not removed from the neck in time, pulls us to the bottom with our victims - the former colonies of Russia.

Mikhail Saakashvili was not lucky. He had to save the independence of Georgia, and the world in it, and reforms. The price is known. Read Mandelstam. "We will also remember in the Devilsky cold that the earth was worth the ten of heaven." It is easy and pleasant to be a democrat, even if you are touched by tear gas. You do not answer for anything if your business is dying and your country returns to the imperial yoke, you get up, shake it off and, blazing righteous anger, go to the States, Germany, France or even go to prison. You are not responsible for the result. It is all with a clear flame, the plague for both of your homes, the goal does not justify the means, and the other everyday life of the democrat, up to "your opinion is deeply hostile to me, but for your right to express it, I am ready to sacrifice my life."

All this Mikhail Saakashvili had to be dropped from the ship of our time. As we once in 1993: to us, Yeltsin, Gaidar, to everyone who thought with us categories of life, struggle, hatred of enemies, and not voluntary death, as many suggested, including Grigory Yavlinsky. And long before that, a politician named Mannerheim (about the time when Kerensky was observed with the Bolsheviks and generally with all the dashing left elements, which was played out after February, a democratic etiquette, expecting a tragic denouement), saved the October adventures of Finland, very stiffly suppressing the “peaceful armed uprising” and in one day in one day, burying in one The grave of twenty thousand insurgents, not excluding women and adolescents. And nothing, the current democratic Finns approved. The monument in the center of Helsinki is not dismantled, it is worth it. And I am very sorry that this procedure in St. Petersburg and in Moscow had no one to do how they did it in 1905, when the guard simply smashed Presnya into chips.

Did you know that if Stolypin lived until 1917, there would be neither October, nor socialist, nor revolution? There would be no civil war, red terror, dispossession, Gulag; There would be no Second World War, Holocaust, the USSR ... Russia would be a prosperous and free constitutional monarchy. But it would also be a big blood. Perhaps all the Bolsheviks (and along the way part of the idealists that would fall under a hot hand) would have buried, and Lenin and Trotsky, Zinoviev and others like them would most likely have been to the gallows. "Stolypin tie" was called, many such "ties" in 1905-1907. I gave the prime minister. But 1917 did not happen in 1905, but could. Of course, there is nothing good in such means, but someone must take responsibility for them, if the goal is an elementary prevention of genocide.

It is very embarrassing to listen to how human rights activists of the Russian Empire, besides, as I found out with horror, who received grants from the Putin authorities (and the other is no longer), repeat official information. Yes, and the Helsinki group, and the Center for Human Rights, and the Memorial are kicking Saakashvili for stopping a coup d'etat prepared by Russian agents.

15 years ago in Tbilisi there was the same thing. Hysterical rallies inspired by the Kremlin, with the same slogans about Georgia without Zviad, without the president, without the fascist regime of Gamsakhurdia. Then the army was divided and the guns were used, then Rustaveli Prospekt was smashed and tanks from the crypt were tanned that Zviad in the presidential palace in the basement had cages with leopards and panthers, with which he fed living opposition. (Today they are doing a horror movie about strangulation of the reinforcement of the president in their own car.) And Zviad was a human rights activist, and he said that he would answer the bullets with flowers. Do you remember what happened next? Civil War, executions for the portrait of Zviad, execution and torture of the "Zviadists", the expulsion of the deputies of the parliament, the expulsion of Zviad, hunger, gang of Jaba Ioseliani, invasion of Abkhazia ...

I was there, I saw trains with knocked out glasses, shut up mattresses, and the ruins of Zugdidi, and the terrible underground prison of Beriyevsky times (not as a tourist, but as a prisoner). Neither light nor hot water - even in places in Tbilisi (this is light, even no one even dreamed of hot water). And the streets were hanging around the tonton-makuts of Jaba Ioseliani in black glasses with machine guns and hunted for the intelligentsia. This time the script was like this: a complete destabilization of the situation in Tbilisi, the seizure of parliament, and ideological, but uncertain and irresponsible opposition were used as a background and an instrument such as Mr. B.P., whose shadow business M. Saakashvili stepped on the tail, or as a similar Mr. OK. And then - long -standing shots, seasoned, like bison: Tengiz Kitovani, Gabeshnik Giorgadze, Irina Sarishvili and GG. Cerethels and Haindrava. And then there would have appeared a company-two tanks, an armored personnel carrier, or something else with fighters, dressed in Georgian uniform.

Remember the march of the “Chechen opposition” on Grozny on Russian tanks and with tankers who are accepted in the Russian army? To slip his creature to the presidency, cancel the presidential post and buy parliamentarians in a piece ... And in chaos and shootout - Anschlus, an invasion of Abkhazia "to protect Russian citizens." For nothing, or something, there were distributed passports 80 percent of the population? Hitler was also once worried about the Sudeten Germans ... And Abkhazian resorts have long been dreaming of Russian colonialists.

And Mikhail Saakashvili, not a human rights activist, but the president, ugly but necessary actions stopped and canceled this scenario. There will be no blood, hunger, civil war, Anschlus. There will be elections. I personally would give a voice for M. Saakashvili, who was not afraid to take a chance for the sake of Georgia. If honest oppositionists suffered from batons, rubber bullets and tear gas, I ask them to forgive this to Mikhail Saakashvili. Guys, they don’t play sand with you. You are not alone, and while running around the square, do not forget that a big brother looks at you and is ready to use you.