While Russia and America see the conflict in abstract terms about spheres of influence and protecting allies, for Ossetians, who still recall the centuries of massacres Georgians committed against them, it is highly personal. They will still recall the Georgian massacres in the early 1920s, when Georgia was briefly independent, which exterminated up to 8 percent of the Ossetian population. Full Story »
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The article has the potential to restore some perspective and balance in viewing the ruckus in the Caucasus. The degree of totalitarian fascism in the Georgia government is not reflected in US big corporate media. Bush/cheney try to confuse people into thinking that capitalism and democracy are the same thing, into forgetting that Mussolini and Hitler were the pinnacles of capitalism, and the antithesis of democracy. Therefore if Georgia is capitalist, bush/cheney want one to assume it is democratic and humanistic. The Saakashvili military attacks against the civilians of Ossetia seem more like genocide than an incidental event that can be ignored by the press.
