“Russia attacks Georgia, Saakashvili killed? A “hoax” from Georgian TV
(B2) It was just a media stunt. Using archival footage, Imedi TV, one of the Georgian televisions (formerly opposition taken over by the power) announced nearly two years after the Russian attack on Georgia, a new attack with the death of the current leader, Saakashvili. It was just a media stunt, a "hoax", a fiction in the purest style of the CBS in 1938 which announces the landing of the Martians in new Jersey and the true-false RTBF newspaper on the "unilateral proclamation of independent Flanders"and the abandonment of the reign by Albert II. Look at (the report that has just been broadcast on Russia Today, Russian radio, in English), it's like it...
(NVP)
Indeed, I had the opportunity to watch this Georgian program with a time difference of one hour, as well as the debate that followed the "true-false" news. Apart from the fact that they had failed to apply a "this is fiction" label, a criticism that was made of the channel during the debate, the importance of such a "shock" program was emphasized. It was said that citizens must realize that such a scenario is still possible, and that vigilance is required. The current global crisis situation may awaken ghosts of the past, with the opposition increasing its contacts with Moscow, forgetting what Stalin did to those who, after opening the doors of Georgia to the Bolsheviks in 1921 as they are trying to do today, were then disappointed and went to complain to the Party leader...
Faced with Russia's policy and the recent insults against President Saakashvili by Putin and Sergei Lavrov, and clearly disappointed by Europe and the United States, Georgia feels abandoned by those it so desired as allies, Europe first and foremost, that it is necessary to awaken consciences, so that citizens do not lose courage. Georgia is there, especially following the Franco-Russian "rapprochement", the sale of the Mistrals, and the obvious lack of European support for the Nabucco project which means a lot to Georgia, in particular greater protection from the West, and the arrival of funds to help rebuild the country and rehouse the 300.000 internally displaced persons...
In summary. But it's so much more complicated...