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Where Europe Vanishes - article on Georgia from Nov 2000

(Map of Georgia courtesy of Google Maps)

Archaeologist Zaal Kikodze explains:

"At the stage of technology we have reached, nations work only if they float in the larger world. And what you have in this part of the world is fossilized nations—dead societies that have yet to revive. There are a group of young reformers in our parliament, educated in the West. But today Georgians only want heroes. And we will never be able to rely on the United States or NATO. We are too far from Europe, too close to Russia. NATO will not drop bombs for ten weeks to save Georgians from ethnic cleansing in Abkhazia, the way it bombed to save Albanians in Kosovo. Yet we still look toward Europe."

Kikodze goes to explain that language is a problem, since Russian is no longer taught, it cuts off young Georgians from both their history (which is generally written in Russian) and Ossetians and Armenians, promoting ethnic separation.

Go read the article at Atlantic Monthly.

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