This is one of the main ideologies that they are trying to implement through the hands of people who have lost their homeland, - this is how Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili answered a journalist's question about why they did not mention Russia in the statements made yesterday regarding April 9 and instead said that a "foreign force" carried out violence against citizens.
Papuashvili called the events that took place near the parliament yesterday hysteria and said that all of this "was organized with foreign funding both on Rustaveli and on social media."
"People only want to hear 2 words - Russia and Europe, they can’t hear anything else at all. For them, there is only white-black, Russia-Europe. This hysteria was organized yesterday with foreign funding, both on Rustaveli and in social media. This hysteria is an indicator that people react to irritants, to words that they want to hear. In 1989, people who saw it with our own eyes, we know very well who was coming there with shovels, who killed our young and old people on April 9. We know very well who was standing there - the Soviet army, which was an extension of the Russian empire. You should have learned this in school, and if someone asks questions about this, generally, what happened and how, this is a problem. The most disgusting thing is when the national movement persecutor, Mamuka Khazaradze and the Russian opera singer Paata Burchuladze stand on Rustaveli Avenue and tell the leader of the April 9 rally, Irakli Kadagishvili, that he should not go there. This is where foreign money and the interests of foreign powers have finally brought this group of our citizens,” Papuashvili said.
According to his assessment, yesterday they trampled on the memory of those who died on April 9 and defiled the idea for which the citizens of Georgia fought.
“We saw whose funding this was, the NGOs operating with foreign funding: Transparency International, Sapari, Shame. Ms. Lomjaria’s organization. Who is funding them? Their funders must come forward and take responsibility for the atrocity that happened yesterday. They instilled contempt and hatred in people," Papuashvili said.
