the people rise up against Sakaashvili
the people are beaten back by the tyrant's forces
Posted on 04/12/2010 12:41:25 PM PDT by lizol
The Glory of Poland
By ROGER COHEN Published: April 12, 2010
NEW YORK — My first thought, hearing of the Polish tragedy, was that history’s gyre can be of an unbearable cruelty, decapitating Poland’s elite twice in the same cursed place, Katyn.
My second was to call my old friend Adam Michnik in Warsaw. Michnik, an intellectual imprisoned six times by the former puppet-Soviet Communist rulers, once told me:
“Anyone who has suffered that humiliation, at some level, wants revenge. I know all the lies. I saw people being killed. But I also know that revanchism is never ending. And my obsession has been that we should have a revolution that does not resemble the French or Russian, but rather the American, in the sense that it be for something, not against something. A revolution for a constitution, not a paradise. An anti-utopian revolution. Because utopias lead to the guillotine and the gulag.”
Michnik’s obsession has yielded fruit. President Lech Kaczynski is dead. Slawomir Skrzypek, the president of the National Bank, is dead. An explosion in the fog of the forest took them and 94 others on the way to Katyn. But Poland’s democracy has scarcely skipped a beat. The leader of the lower house of Parliament has become acting president pending an election. The first deputy president of the National Bank has assumed the duties of the late president. Poland, oft dismembered, even wiped from the map, is calm and at peace.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
nice Photoshop. You are so strange....
Georgians will never accept Russia's brutal genocidal domination no matter who is leader of Georgia!
Do you read? I did not say that Georgian people want Russians to take over. But they certainly cannot stand Saashkavili.
Yeah right, that’s why they elected him twice.
Sakaashvili said this and shame on any politician who supports this kind of tyranny - Mussolini commanded his security:
“to use force when dealing with any attempt to stage prison riots, and to open fire, shoot to kill and destroy any criminal who attempts to cause turmoil. We will not spare bullets against these people.”
You know who runs the "pro-Russian" opposition? Zurab Nogaideli, who is linked to, wouldn't you know it, SOROS!
The people opposing Saakashvili now are the same ones Soros helped to overthrow Shevardnadze!
Rigged elections are Sashkhavili’s specialty.
It is obvious that the bloom is off the rose...
Putin and Russia caused the Polish plane to crash (or at least helped it along).
Soros has been exposed as a potential KGB agent.
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