[G8 Diplomat]

"The actions of the Georgian authorities are an insult to Russia. We will not tolerate such treatment. Russia must be respected, and the Georgians will have to apologize to Russia and Russian citizens."

And yet the Russians don't have to apologize to Georgia for forcing them into the Soviet Union? I see double standard there. The actions of Russia were an insult to Georgia, and forcing the Georgians into the CCCP is a lot worse than having some military base surrounded.

[joan]

Wasn't Stalin an ethnic Georgian, and Nikita Khrushchev was Ukrainian?

The Soviets gave away Russian land, from what I learned from other Russian Freepers, who've since been banned.

For instance, Chechnya was originally 1/3 of what it is today - it was just the mountainous part in the south - they were a mountain people. But the Soviets, led by non-Russians, gave it extra land which had been developed and settled by Russians and Georgians.