Opinion | Remembering the Soviet massacre in Georgia, 30 years ago today

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Opinion: Remembering the Soviet massacre in Georgia, 30 years ago today

People lay flowers and light candles to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Soviet Union's crackdown on protesters in Tbilisi, Georgia. By David Bakradze April 9 at 5:52 PM David Bakradze is Georgia’s ambassador to the United States.

Teenagers are impressionable, and nothing was left to the imagination. We witnessed unspeakable brutality. Russian soldiers bludgeoned unarmed citizens with military trenching tools. They gave no quarter, attacking even some of those who were fleeing. They fired tear gas and CS gas — a chemical weapon — at the crowds of peaceful protesters, paralyzing some, killing others.

When you’re a teenager, it’s easy to get caught up in the excitement of crowds and the turmoil of events. I’m not certain I entirely understood the gravity of what had happened at that moment, but I did know that it was part of what was occurring in the broader region around Georgia thanks to broadcasts from the U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. A captive nation was rejecting the disintegrating Soviet empire.

 

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Ah, Communism. We missed you. Please come back to us in the form of a Democratic President. We hate our health, our wealth, and our security. We’d trade it all for the massacres of authoritarian socialists any day.

An obvious exaggeration: There were TWENTY ONE dead in Georgia, 30 years ago today. The loss of life is never funny, but there are THOUSANDS of single incidents that produced more casualties than this one.

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