"It would be a great shame for any person to equate the youth with Berbichashvili," - that’s how Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili responded to Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze's open letter.
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Zourabichvili sees these words from the country's prime minister as indicative of a person who has already moved to another dimension, confirming his government's alienation from its own people.
"Government starts with the love of one's own people; love for the 'land' is nothing else. During Holy Week, Easter, and Magnificent Seven, I have not heard so many threats, hatred, beatings, and violence, including from officials (without exception). This is also a belief. As for the language, the language of your hatred has never been Georgian!" Salome Zourabichvili wrote on social media.
Today, Irakli Kobakhidze published an open letter regarding rallies against the Russian Law. The Prime Minister stated that a large part of the young people who consistently participate in the actions are entirely insincere young "Nationals." As Irakli Kobakhidze notes, sincere young people also participate in the rallies; however, "has value only when it is supported by knowledge and intelligence."
"A self-confident person without knowledge and intelligence is worse than a Russian tank. When 29-year-old Gigla Berbicashvili shot 70-year-old Ilia Chavchavadze, he deeply believed that he was a progressive, sincere young man, and Ilia Chavchavadze was a backward, dishonest old man. This belief was instilled in Berbicashvili and his like-minded young people by Bolshevik ideology. The pseudo-liberal ideology also operates with similar methods, convincing the youth who directly or indirectly follow the collective National Movement that they are the epitome of sincerity and progressiveness in this country," the Prime Minister wrote.
According to Kobakhidze's letter, Georgian Dream is not going to consider the demands of the participants in the protest actions and label them as supporters of the Russian Law.
