Originally posted by BigMan
That would be Sad, nobody has suffer under the Yoke of Islam like the Christans of the Caucuses.
OK, to revive the tread and stop it from dieing hijacked.
The problem is that noone but Russians stopped Georgians from falling under the "yoke of Islam". Georgian king wrote to Russian Emperor that he "begs on his knees" to be included into Russian Empire. Now they call Russians "occupants" and "opressors".
All this "parade of independance" was pure nonsence. It was organised by local "princes" who wanted to rule according to their tribal traditions. Look, immediately after they got "independance" they started wars: civilian (in Georgia and Azerbaijan) and Georgian-Osetin, Georgian-Abkhazian and Armenia-Azerbaijan. Georgia and Armenia also suffered severe economical disasters, because their economics was strongly integrated into Russian-Soviet, and they have no natural resources like oil of Baku. Now - who needs tangerins from Georgia? Who needs their wine?
OTOH, Russia still supplies them gas and oil by some strange tariffs, almost for free. At the same time Georgians host Chechen terrorists and recieve military aid from the US, guess against whom...