HALF-INSANE BOLSHEVISM IS REPLYING FROM TSKHINVALI
Giorgi Tsiklauri
Expert Club
Nov 3 2010
Georgia
Ambassador of France is concerned about the situation in the occupied
regions of Georgia and talks about attempts to erase traces of Georgian
presence in the occupied territories of Russia. “Hate in the Caucasus
again hinders resolution of conflicts”, – said Eric Fournier in his
monthly address, where special emphasis is placed on Akhalgori.
Before the Georgian-Russian war in August 2010 this area was
outside the conflict zone and was captured as the result of the
Russian aggression. And military control of the Russian Federation
and governance of the South Ossetian puppet administration was
established there.
Fournier stressed that “a policy is pursued in Georgia which was
started by the Tskhinvali regime to destroy (remove) Georgian villages
in the Akhalgori district … After the expulsion of thousands of
people the regime is trying to erase the memory as if it were possible
to erase the history of a people or language from the map. ”
Speaking about the renaming of the district centre of Akhalgori into
Leningori that was done by the puppet administration together with
renaming of all Georgian villages, the French ambassador also said that
“authorities in Tskhinvali wish to change the name Akhalgori into
Leningori, while in Russia it’s been twenty years since Leningrad
is again called St. Petersburg”. At that Eric Fournier notes that
“for some reason it became necessary that in the (Ksani) gorge could
be heard the name of this half-insane Bolshevik (Lenin), whose ideas
have caused much bloodshed in the past century.”
Assessments of the French Ambassador have already led to a reaction
from occupied Tskhinvali. Local expert, member of the society South
Ossetia against Nazism Yuri Beteev justifies Ossetian Nazism in an
interview with news agency Osinform. Firstly, this “expert” believes
that “the French diplomat puts his nose” when he expresses his
views with regards to the conflict that was stabilised with direct
participation of the President of France who brokered a ceasefire
agreement that was signed by the presidents of Georgia and Russia
on August 12, 2008. So what if Fournier is a representative of one
of the key EU states, which is officially a mediator of the Geneva
negotiating process and provides for the monitoring observer mission
on the line of the Russian occupation?
Secondly, Mr. Bateev calls on Eric Fournier “if he is so passionate
about restoring historical justice” to speak of “hundreds of Armenian
churches, which gradually becoming Georgian through destruction
of frescoes and inscriptions”. Knowledge of Tskhinvalian “expert”
is all the more impressive that even the government of Armenia
does not suspect existence of such problem. Perhaps Yuri Beteev
should sent a full list of “hundreds of Armenian churches which are
gradually becoming Georgian” to Yerevan for this question to be put
on the agenda of bilateral relations and the Armenian side to call
on Tbilisi to stop outrageous barbarism …
Bateev also calls on the French ambassador not to keep quiet about
the fact that “Georgian authorities in the Soviet period has done
everything to get rid of Ossetian surnames of citizens of Ossetian
origin.” While we urge Beteev not remain silent about the fact that –
despite all efforts of “Georgian authorities” – it was exactly the
Soviet period when the process of Russification of Ossetians was
launched and they moved in masses towards Russian form of writing
of their names. Ossetians of Shida Kartli region, who according to
centuries-established tradition, used to register in church books
and other documents of Georgia with surnames with Georgian endings
(“-shvili”, “-dze” while the root of the surname indicated to Ossetian
origin of the name), suddenly received Russian ending “-ov” and
“-ev ” (just like our “expert”). At that, with all this talk about
Georgianization, they somehow did not think to restore their own,
Ossetian forms with endings “y” or “i”.
Further comments by Yuri Beteev very clearly indicated the same
half-insane Bolshevism in occupied Tskhinvali region. “South Ossetia is
an independent state,” – says our “expert” clearly demonstrating the
issue of insanity. “And it has a right to restore historical justice
on its territory”, – he continues thus leading us to Bolshevism
that artificially and without any legal or historical basis created
South-Ossetian Autonomous District after annexation and Sovietization
of the Democratic Republic of Georgia by the Soviet Russia in 1921.
“The processes that are occurring in the toponymy of the Republic
of South Ossetia must intensify” – calls the member of the society
South Ossetia against Nazism referring to the process of mass
substitution of Georgian toponyms known from ancient sources with
previously unknown Ossetian names that is taking place after the
ethnic cleansing of Georgian population. At that it is necessary to
appreciate Beteev’s generosity. He just talks about many “decades”
of violent “Georgianization” of their “state”, although historical
records suggest many centuries and even millennias of “Georgianization”
of “Ossetian” land, “real” owners of which in those days, by strange
coincidence, were wandering in steppes somewhere far from the Caucasus.
Another example of Bateev’s generosity. He accuses Georgians of
only three genocides of Ossetians, although some specialists in
Tskhinvali mentioned bigger numbers. We clearly need to appreciate
that the representative of the Ossetian expert community agrees
not to remember, for example, the liberation of Gori in 1326 from
troops of the Ossetian prince Bagatar. He captured this city that was
founded by David IV the Builder in 1292 having taken advantage of the
Mongol invasion into Georgia. The history says that Ossetian troops
had been completely destroyed and those of them who fled were long
pursued through the gorges by soldiers of the George V the Brilliant
of Georgia weaning from the habit of setting their eyes on others’
property. How it’s not a genocide?
But those three genocides that Yuri Bettev have chosen from the
contemporary history are no less “impressive”: 1) suppression of the
Bolshevik uprising in 1920 similar to events in other mountain regions
of Georgia and in which (suppression) Ossetians non-infected by the Red
plague also had their part; 2) low-intensity conflict of 1989-1992,
with relatively small and comparable losses of the parties that was
a result of illegal actions of the Supreme Council of South Ossetian
Autonomous District that had decided to unilaterally raise its status
from the level of autonomous district to autonomous republic with
the subsequent declaration of independence; 3) repulsion of Russian
aggression in August 2008, when Ossetian armed formations lost,
according to various estimates, from several dozen to 160 people
(based on materials of prosecutors investigative commission of the
Russian Federation ).
In conclusion of his short, but Bolshevik-style impassioned speech
the Tskhinvalian expert says that Mr. Fournier “can be safely called
an accomplice and follower of Nazi traditions”. It seems we should
sympathize with the French Ambassador to Georgia. Now, with such a
stigma and from such influential people at that he might be forced
to say goodbye to a diplomatic career and pack his suitcases…
From: A. Papazian