Chapter Seventy-Six: The Great Turmoil Begins
(1st Update)
The beginning of a turmoil must have been triggered by a social incident, in which the Georgian separatist forces, which controlled the television and newspapers, launched a propaganda offensive to attack Moscow for the abolition of Ukraine and Belarus in the United Nations.
One report in the Georgian newspaper even quoted Lenin's account of "On the National Question or on 'Automatism'" published in December 1922, taking some fragments out of context to support his point.
"Historical practice tells us that it is almost always our big people who are at fault -- we inflict countless acts of violence on small peoples, sometimes even unknowingly."
But these people forget that Lenin's line was seriously carried out during the Soviet years, that the inhabitants of the Russian SSFR were mostly Russians, and that they were worse off than the Russians in the other republics of the Soviet Union, but that Russia produced more material wealth than it needed, and used the surplus wealth to raise the ethnic borders, and that the Georgians now enjoy the fruits of Soviet labor. And now these people are like a white-eyed wolf who does not know how to be grateful, and wants to completely expel the Russians from the land of Georgia.
The overwhelming reports deliberately misled public opinion, and without press control, they found an opportunity to criticize the Soviet policy, and the media unscrupulously denied the current national policy of the Soviet Union, and they even called Yanayev a pagan who protected the Soviet Union, a great power chauvinist, a despicable tyrant, and a typical Soviet bureaucrat. The Georgian people seem to have forgotten that it is in fact Belarus and Ukraine that are really violating their rights.
And so a very wonderful phenomenon was born, Georgians who had nothing to do with this incident were even more agitated than Ukrainians and Belarusians, and it was at the careful instigation of those nationalists that a demonstration began to brew.
At about seven o'clock in the morning of December 13, a group of young people, about 200 students from the main Georgian university, Tbilisi University, began to gather in front of the building of the Central Committee of Georgia, expressing their dissatisfaction with Yanayev's policy.
There are also several portraits of Yanayev in a ferocious, brutal distorted appearance, with the text underneath: "The brutal Russian Tsar dared to maintain his rule only in Moscow by means of repression." "This is Georgia, get out of our land with the Communists!"
Slogans and slogans arose, the student leaders stood in front of the statue of Lenin, beating the bronze statue with sticks to express their displeasure, he raised his arms and shouted, and at the same time asked the students to join him in the crusade against the cruel Soviets.
"Tear down the bronze statue of Lenin, a symbol of the evil regime!" Someone in the crowd shouted a word, and the others instantly responded to it. They found ropes from somewhere else, tied them around the neck of the bronze statue of Lenin, and pulled them together. The symbol of communism, with its left arm outstretched, embracing a bright future, was pulled to the ground by a group of ignorant people. The students climbed the statue and made all sorts of humiliating gestures towards it, as if smug as if to declare it a great victory for democracy.
The loud bang when the bronze statue fell to the ground seemed to be the sigh of the great communist practitioner's ignorance of future generations.
By about 10:25 a.m., the number of demonstrators had increased to more than 500 people, but strangely the troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs had not come out to stop the march, which was becoming more and more like a riot, and there were not even police, perhaps because of the events in Tbilisi three years earlier.
At the same time, the figure of Georgian President Zvyad also appeared on television, as the son of the Georgian literary classic writer Gamsakhurdzia the Elder, he has earned the halo of a victim of the democratic movement since 1988, and since he became the so-called president of Georgia, he has been portrayed as the future savior of Georgia.
The photographer made an OK gesture to Zviad to signal that he could start his speech, Zvyad nodded, pointed at the camera, and took a natural politician performance posture to begin his speech, first making a statement expressing support for the students' pursuit of democracy and freedom, and then turning to his anti-Soviet rhetoric.
"Dear compatriots, we should not remain in this communist imperial union called the Soviet Union, after the First World War, the Russian Empire collapsed, after the Second World War, the foundations of the communist empire were shaken, and after the third war, it will collapse completely, this empire will inevitably collapse, it will be the collapse of the last empire in the world, and humanity can breathe a sigh of relief."
"The Georgian SSR should not exist anymore, it is Georgia that exists, restored to the status of a sovereign state in history, he has received enslavement from the Russian domesticist empire, we demand the immediate withdrawal from the Soviet Union of the Russian communist empire, after the secession of the Soviet Union, the troops of the Russian Empire should be immediately withdrawn from Georgia, all his privileges in Georgia should be abolished, and the United Nations troops should be stationed in Georgia in order to ensure our security at all times. After that, Georgia should join NATO as a military ally, the United States is a symbol of peace, the defense of human rights and democracy, and an independent Georgia should follow the example of the American system and take it as the direction of development. Your efforts will allow the Georgians to have an independent, free state, the moment is approaching day by day, we should fight for it, world opinion will support us, we will be able to get rid of the red terror of the empire. ”
"I hope that we will all unite and fight to the end for the liberation of Georgia!"
Zviad's shameless kneeling and licking of the West was on full display in front of the television, and it was amazing that he could still hold his head high and accept the spotlight like a big rooster who had always been proud.
There is no doubt that this speech provoked an agitated crowd of students, who began to act even more excessively, smashing the glass of the central building with stones and sharp objects, so that the party Central building could not carry out its daily work, the organs were paralyzed, and the staff inside had to be temporarily evacuated from the remote section of the back door.
They proudly proclaimed victory, like clowns on the stage, trampling the achievements of Soviet construction under their feet, destroying everything in an orderly manner, and the worst thing is that these people have not achieved anything, they will only oppose for the sake of opposition, and their fanatical and sober minds will pull Georgia into the abyss.
Now the Soviets in Georgia are facing the toughest test ever!