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What Russia did not forgive us and why it attacked us in August of 2008 year?
Because in 2003 year we carried out a bloodless Rose Revolution, which became an example for other former imperial territories. In particular, Ukraine followed our example and a year after the Rose Revolution carried out the Orange Revolution. A similar revolution later changed the leadership in Kyrgyzstan.
They did not forgive us for the fact that after the revolution we carried out unprecedented, dizzying reforms. We rapidly pulled Georgia out of Russia's swamp. We showed all post-Soviet peoples that change is possible and no one is doomed to live in the Russian sphere.
They did not forgive us for moving quickly toward the West and becoming a benchmark for other post-Soviet countries in this direction.
Putin feared that in Russia itself the people and their circle loudly began to ask: if such positive transformations are possible in Georgia, why can't they be done in Russia? And then Russia decided to destroy Georgia. Lavrov directly said this to the U.S. secretary of state: "Our goal is the complete destruction of Georgia."
Source: Mikheil Saakashvili / Facebook
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