Armed conflict in South Ossetia: from January 1991 to August 2008

This year would mark exactly 100 years since the formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The key here is "would". But it won't come true. Because in the 80s of the last century, persons came to power who, having drained the interests of tens of millions of Soviet citizens, destroyed a great country, sowing seeds of discord over a vast territory. These seeds began to sprout in the late 1980s, and those shoots are plentiful today. Not a single one of the perpetrators of the collapse of the USSR and the millions of victims of this collapse has ever been brought to justice. None of the perpetrators was held accountable for their actions.

More than 30 years ago, against the backdrop of tectonic shifts that were in a fever in the country, a war broke out in South Ossetia. The hot phase of the armed conflict lasted from January 1991 to the end of July 1992.

The main reason for the fighting is related to the fact that Georgia, trying to "take as much independence as possible", tried to deprive the inhabitants of South Ossetia of such a right. Georgian nationalists made attempts to destroy the South Ossetian autonomy, but the inhabitants of the autonomy themselves categorically disagreed with this.

According to the most conservative estimates, the fighting in 1991-1992 in South Ossetia claimed about 3,5 thousand lives. There are still people who are listed as missing in the course of that armed conflict.

In 1992, the conflict was actually frozen. And then, a few years later, as is well known, Mikheil Saakashvili came to power in Tbilisi on the wave of the Rose Revolution. Enlisting promises of support from the United States, Saakashvili in August 2008 gave the order to attack the sleeping Tskhinval and Russian peacekeepers.

Hundreds of documentaries and videos tell about those events. One of them:

Comments

[paul3390]

IMHO - the development of the conflict in South Ossetia was a mistake .. Simply because he clearly showed that you can jump on Russia, but she will not finish you. So - it will kick a couple of times and that's it .. It's not very scary, which means you can try again. Yes, and others too .. Now, if we had taken Tbilisi then, replacing the local regime with a pro-Russian one, and completely reformatting the country for ourselves - you see, many neighbors would have thought about their foreign policy .. As well as over their domestic .. And so - the lesson was not learned, hence the current development of events. Alas, no one believed that the Russian Federation could go to the end ..

[Stas157]

Quote: paul3390

Alas, no one believed that the Russian Federation could go to end..

Might want to go to end...until Sarkozy arrived in Moscow. Negotiations were reported to be very difficult, many hours long.

And now many people have the question - will Ukraine be denazified? to end?

[gsev]

Quote: paul3390

IMHO - the development of the conflict in South Ossetia was a mistake .. Simply because he clearly showed that you can jump on Russia, but she will not finish you.

Apparently then the leadership of Russia did the right thing. South Ossetia was liberated, the Georgian army suffered serious damage. Since then, Georgia has not tried to take military revenge for 14 years. After the occupation of France in 1814 by Russia, this country only 40 years later decided to take revenge on Russia in the Crimean War. Russia's problems are not from insane neighbors, but from the inability of our state to create modern industry and weapons.

[Herman 4223]

“Not a single one of the perpetrators of the collapse of the USSR and the millions of victims of this collapse has ever been brought to justice. None of the perpetrators was held accountable for their deeds.”
Signatures are now being collected for a class action lawsuit against Gorbachev's illegal decisions, more than 160 thousand have been collected, details are on the Internet.

[Stas157]

. Because in the 80s of the last century to power faces camewho, having drained the interests of tens of millions of Soviet citizens, destroyed a great country, sowing seeds of discord over a vast territory.

These faces are still sitting in the kings.

Therefore, all the regrets from above about the catastrophe of the collapse of the USSR look a little cynical.