Georgia: Contemporary myth making
For now Georgia is the land of myth-making, the product of a whirlpool of two mighty streams of propaganda – West-backed Georgian and Russian. In propaganda, pure facts do not exist. Georgian and Russian ears keep hearing divergent stories. Well, maybe some figures such as number of sunken ships and blasted bridges, hectares of forests set on fire, number of refugees and troops, amount of foreign humanitarian aid do coincide. However, to me even that’s subject to doubt as even they are coming in the “relevant” selection and are as obfuscated by interpretation as to drive governmental policy home.
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