In this photo, Tengiz Kitovani is with Sergei Shoigu.
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1. On January 6, 1992, pro-Russian forces in Georgia under the command of Shevardnadze, Kitovani, Ioseliani, Sigua and other criminals, with the help of troops of the Transcaucasian Military District, reporting directly to Yeltsin, established their power in Georgia, overthrowing legitimate government and President Zviad Gamsakhurdia.
2. A period of severe terror and blockade, killings of supporters of the legitimate government began in Georgia.
Zviad Gamsakhurdia was rescued by the President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, Dzhokhar Dudayev. In the city of Grozny on February 18, 1992, Dzhokhar Dudayev and Zviad Gamsakhurdia held a press conference at which they called on the international community to intervene. They directly called the new Yeltsin Russia an “aggressive empire.” Part of Georgia was occupied by Russia, and President Zviad Gamsakhurdia was eliminated.
3. The propaganda of Yeltsin’s journalists and “Russian human rights activists”, which continues to this day, says that Zviad Gamsakhurdia was a fascist, a Nazi, a dictator and a madman, and therefore the whole world supported the coup in Georgia – a monstrous crime, a justification for the anti-state pro-Russian coup.
4. There is a letter sent by Zviad Gamsakhurdia to international authorities, in which he describes this crime in detail. It changes the entire narrative imposed by Yeltsin’s journalists and proves the criminal nature of Yeltsin’s new “democratic Russia”. This letter was published only in 2023 in Ukraine by the Anti-Imperial Bloc of Nations. No one else has ever published this important historical letter.
If it were published today in major media, it would mean the beginning of a revision of the entire post-Soviet history. This must be done today, and this will be a way out of the thirty-year vicious and criminal labyrinth through which the whole world wanders, supporting the criminal regime of Yeltsin, and then Putin.
5. Like the facts of proof of the independence of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, the facts of the anti-state coup in Georgia against Zviad Gamsakhurdia are still being hidden by the “Russian liberal media”. The Russian “liberal media” blocked these facts and did not allow the narrative that Yeltsin was the same criminal as Putin.
6. If Russia’s aggression against Georgia in 1991 and against the independent Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in 1994 and 1999 is not understood in Ukraine today, Ukraine will face the same occupation and a change in the world media narrative to a narrative that justifies Russia.
7. A separate appeal to the citizens of Georgia to give a political assessment of the coup d’etat of 1991-1992, discarding Russian narratives and relying on their intellectual powers of reasoning. In 1992, a monstrous experiment was carried out on the population of Georgia. Against the backdrop of total devastation, war, famine and lack of information, the KGB carried out numerous fakes. This information still forms the basis for general understandings and assessments.
After the Rose Revolution and the coming to power of Mikheil Saakashvili, much was rethought, and the body of Zviad Gamsakhurdia was transferred with honours from the occupied Chechen Republic to the Tbilisi pantheon. But a political assessment of the events of 1991-1993 has still not been given. The hushed-up issue of the independence of Ichkeria is especially upsetting, but it was Zviad Gamsakhurdia who recognized the independence of Ichkeria. Dzhokhar Dudayev was the only friend who came to the aid of the first president of Georgia. He was even ready to “take over” the Chechen Republic of Georgia, on which Russia had imposed a complete economic blockade
In 2008, Russia attacked Georgia. In 2012, having staged a provocation against Saakashvili, Russia appointed its protégé Ivanishvili, the successor of Shevardnadze’s loyal traditions.
8. Russian policy – divide and conquer. Only by uniting will the victims of Russian aggression – Ukraine, Georgia and Ichkeria – be able to resist Russia, sharing experiences and anticipating the Kremlin’s provocations.
Inna Kurochkina
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