Giorgi Chkheidze is also the business partner of Kakha Bekauri, the Chairman of the Communications Commission, in “Two Steps”. He is currently in the USA. “Netgazeti” offers his letter in full:
Giorgi Chkheidze is also the business partner of Kakha Bekauri, the Chairman of the Communications Commission, in “Two Steps”. He is currently in the USA. “Netgazeti” offers his letter in full:
A ruler who puts his own interests ahead of those of his nation and opposes the aspirations of his own people is doomed and will surely fail.
The more he tries to subjugate and defeat his own people, the more severely he will be punished; this outcome is historically inevitable.
I am confident that we, the Georgian nation, will be able to defend our civilizational choice and freedom, and we will fight to the end and defeat any government that dares to oppose our will and aspirations.
In Georgia today, the actual power is solely in the hands of Bidzina Ivanishvili, who managed to become the source of power instead of the people and in fact took over the country alone. Any member of his government or party, the people he gathered and put in his service, have such insignificant real rights that they cannot take any significant step without a “patron”. They are only “bolts of the regime”.
It is clear that he is the one who decides any political issue important for the country, and of course he is held accountable. Any person in power who, by their actions or inaction, contributes to the implementation of Ivanishvili's dirty plans and intentions is also held accountable, although their crime is less than that of Bidzina Ivanishvili, as their real influence on maintaining the regime is less, no matter how formal their position.
It is a mistake to fight against someone like Kobakhidze or Papuashvili, or Kaladze or even Gomelauri and spend a lot of energy, they are nothing. When it becomes necessary, their owner will "throw any of them like pots" as a sacrifice to the Georgian people.
The main effort should be directed towards Ivanishvili, not his subordinates. So, for example, does someone like Vigindara Mdinaradze or this Zarkua or Kavelashvili mean anything?
Before the elections, in his famous interview, Ivanishvili asked the people for their support in gaining a constitutional majority, openly citing the elimination of political opponents, i.e. the establishment of a one-party, authoritarian system, as the reason. He also hinted, or rather covered it up, that he wanted to remove Georgia's Euro-Atlantic aspirations from the constitution.
Normally, Georgian voters should have rejected him for this reason alone and expelled him from the political arena, but he still managed to win votes through a campaign to instill fear of "war" and a false promise of joining the European Union.
In reality, his votes are based on the fear of the “return of the Saakashvili regime” and the fear of “being dragged into war”, just fear and nothing else. He managed to intimidate a large part of the people, successfully implementing the “project of intimidating his own people”.
What does it matter now how many votes he received?
He is now acting as he pleases, regardless of the will of the people or the country's constitution.
It is very sad that he abused the great trust and support of the people, throwing the country into a whirlpool of lies, deceit, worthlessness and hatred. He betrayed all the ideals and goals for which the people chose him at the time and is now repeating in a worse form the actions for which the people rejected the previous government in the hope that it would never return to that terrible situation, but ...
Ivanishvili established a one-man, informal government, subordinated the judiciary and completely usurped power. In doing so, he deprived Georgia of real state functions and political leadership. He became the sole head of the country. In doing so, he overthrew the country's constitutional order and established an authoritarian regime. In doing so, he made the country vulnerable to various domestic and external risks and hindered the country's development.
Ivanishvili is deliberately belittling state institutions and thereby insulting the dignity of the people. He brazenly, cynically, and in fact appointed Misha Kavelashvili as our president, thereby telling us that we are not worthy of anything more and that this uneducated and uncultured person best represents the “habitus” of the Georgian people. By doing so, he also said that it does not matter at all who will be the president and commander-in-chief of the country, how could you not understand that everything is me.
Ivanishvili has deliberately destroyed decades of strategic ties with the US and the EU and has just announced that he has decided to reject EU membership. No matter how hard his “comic puppets” try to claim that no such thing was said, everything was said very clearly and now he is insulting the people through his team of shameless demagogues, as if the people cannot understand the content of what was said.
By distancing itself from America and the European Union, it has deprived the country of allies who can help us develop and defend ourselves, and has left us alone in the face of threats, perhaps fatal, from the occupier Russia. It has put the country's security and sovereignty at great risk, and at the same time made it the subject of an incomprehensible trade and political game with the West.
Ivanishvili's regime is deliberately trying to distance society from advanced human ideals and fundamental human values, restricting education and instead leaving it in a darkness full of remnants of the past and false, "allegedly Georgian" values. It is trying to scare people, as if the West is taking away our morality and nationality. In a word, it is trying to take away the nation's freedom. In this way, in its opinion, we will better adapt to the world that it imagines for the Georgian people.
All this can only be assessed in this way –
Betrayal of the nation!!!
Ivanishvili thinks that Georgians will swallow everything and accept that he can intimidate and humiliate us.
I think this is a kind of gambling game for him, in which winning gives him pleasure and increases his self-esteem. But fortunately, he unexpectedly loses this game. I really hope that it is in this game that he will suffer his greatest defeat. He crossed the limits and caused a storm in which either he himself or the Georgian nation will survive. Unfortunately, that is how it is.
Now he is trying to maintain power at all costs and is oppressing the people with completely unjust, undignified, and cruel methods.
Unfortunately, it has long since crossed all boundaries of legitimacy and is brutally violent against people. It is trying to instill fear and violence.
The most insidious and dangerous action is the one that tries to divide society, pit people against each other, make them hate each other, weaken them, and thus enslave them.
Ivanishvili's actions have brought us back to the historical point from which Georgia was trying to escape during the events of 1988-89. Today, 35 years later, we stand again on Rustaveli Street and again demand the freedom and independence that we fought for then and that Ivanishvili's regime is now trying to take away from us.
I am confident that Georgia will be able to fight to the end and win.
There is nothing left to give up here, and the only sensible and intelligent thing to do is fight, and fight alone – the fight for freedom.
