| vlad321 said: The fact that the two provinces' populations are half Russian does not automatically make it Russia's fault for causing strife, there just happens to be a lot of Russians left over from the Soviet era. Also I hate to break it to you, but a Democracy is a government system that's run by the people once every several years for a few months. |
What gives you the idea that the two provinces populations are half russian?
There are very few Russians in those provinces. There are almost as many Armenians is South Ossetia as there are Russians.
Gergorians and Ossetians are very ethnically different from russians and lived in peace and harmony long before the russians every annexed Georgia.
The conflict exists because it was Russian and Soviet Union policy to increade racial pride and racism to make sure everybody watched everybody else and so that racial groups would not join together to fight their opressors because they would hate each other more.
The best way for an unjust ruling class to stay in power is to isolate the larger opressed group by splitting it up into different segments that hate each other. You can see there are racial problems all over the former soviet sattelite states where there used to be none.
Heck there is another war going on in the South Caucus no one is even covering do to the russia's meddling.
