“Russia attacks Georgia, Saakashvili killed?” A Georgian TV “hoax”
(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 an hour difference, as well as the debate that followed the “true-false” newspaper. Apart from failing to apply a “this is fiction” label, which the channel was criticized for during the debate, the importance of such a “shock” program was underlined. It was said that citizens must realize that such a scenario is still possible, and that vigilance is required. The present world crisis situation may awaken ghosts of the past, the opposition multiplying its contacts with Moscow, forgetting what Stalin did with those who, after opening the doors of Georgia to the Bolsheviks in 1921 as they were trying to to do today, were then disappointed and went to complain to the leader of the Party...
Faced with Russia's policy and the recent slurs against President Saakashvili by Putin and Sergei Lavrov, and clearly disappointed by Europe and the United States, Georgia feels abandoned by those they wanted so much as allies, Europe first, that it was necessary to awaken consciences, so that the citizens would 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 for Georgia, in particular greater protection from Westerners, and the arrival of funds to help rebuild the country and relocate the 300.000 internally displaced people...
In summary. But it's so much more complicated...