“I do believe that if there is proper understanding of the objective of this law, nobody would prove why transparency can go against European integration,” Bochorishvili said
That part, that fucking part! Transparency should not disqualify them from joining the EU and if it does then that is a huge red flag. Why join an organization that demands opaqueness? The protesters still baffle me… did anyone see the video of said protestors doing the Hunger Games three finger salute? Embarrassing…
Exactly, it's incredible to watch libs doing mental gymnastics trying to explain why transparency in politics is bad actually.
did anyone see the video of said protestors doing the Hunger Games three finger salute?
They make reference to western media so the western liberals think they love freedom and democracy, when what they really love is the money they get paid by NGOs to go to these protests.
As a Georgian, NONE of the protesters I asked could actually tell me what the law was. all that knew was that it was "Russian" and that they needed to burn the city for it.
I recommend reading this interview with Temur Pipia (First Secretary of the Unified Communist Party of Georgia) for better details (there's also a video of him punching a NAFO member floating around somewhere). It's an old interview by now but its just as relevant:
https://socialistvoice.ie/2023/06/extract-from-interview-with-temur-pipia-1st-secretary-of-the-unified-communist-party-of-georgia/
Did the protestors have a media liaison that could possibly answer much better than that 😭 that actually really sucks, the least they could know is what the actual law says, damn. Anyway thanks for linking that interview, it was a very intriguing read and I did see that video of Pipia punching that guy (skinny guy with a black anti-communist shirt?), it was incredibly iconic, we need more footage for NAFO and Nazis getting beat.
The media's even worse. I don't watch much cable news, but the other day I overheard my grandma watching a segment about "Putin's plans to create a new Soviet Union".
Is there a version of that "Xi, Please" image with Putin instead?
I have the same experience at my house with hearing the news my grandma is watching, its in Portuguese so I don’t understand everything but they talk a LOT about Ukraine and Russia (very pro-Ukraine), one of the guys on the news is also very anti-communist and USSR so there’s that element added too. It’s funny how the media in Portugal is similar to Georgia…
Color revolution. Not all protestors are paid but the organizers are trained by the US embassy, and they tell them to use those kinds of pop culture symbols. They probably didn't tell them outright to film a video doing the salute from the hunger games specifically.
They don't necessarily even have to pay the organizers, though they probably get paid to some extent, especially when the colrev starts to wane and people go home. In that case you want to have your NGO on the ground still keeping up the agitprop, and when it's their job to do that, they'll do it no questions asked. They don't get paid directly from the state department wiring millions into their account, rather their own NGO gets paid from funds and shell companies, and then they dispose of that money as they wish locally.
It's weird because when you join the EU you have to adhere to basically similar laws regarding transparancy in NGOs. But the goal is to get Georgia into the EU so then it doesn't matter anymore. Right now they aren't, and this transparancy law would painfully show the amount of EU funded NGOs in Georgia, stirring up shit.
Wow, this is great! Hopefully, georgians can save themselves from being used as cannon fodder for the imperialists.
It's still a precarious situation but with this law now passed at least they have backed off a couple of steps away from the ledge.
Gotta love the URL right there - "georgia-divisive-russian-law". Major mistake prevented, by the way. Fuck those NGOs.
Indeed, I also love how they avoid mentioning that US has had the same law on the books for ages.
there was one in front of the museum, they took it down unfortunately, its still lying out back somewhere
i visited the museum some years ago, i'd recommend it to everyone. although recently the neolib government made them add a whole section on "stalinist terror".
if you're a of stalin, and you're not socially inept, go give it a visit. you're also bound to get along with some of the locals. rural Georgians tend to be extremely friendly, and Gori is pretty much all stalinists. knowledge of Russian will help.
Maybe one day when I can, my country is VERY far away from Georgia haha, but thanks for info!
it's pretty easy to come here, getting a Georgian visa is honestly no biggie.
