American examples thus may be totally inappropriate for undertsanding the
other worlds. Particularly in teh Georgian context what Shevardnadze must
worry about is that in legal elections the white children of teh Christian
Russians do not vote out the Georgian population out of its secession from
the Russians. Things are actualy very tender there, Russian culture (the
world-view) very influential by now, political awareness very low and
information distribution on both public and teritiary levels very limited.
Criticism for which we are praised at universities, say in an australian
context, is totally ununderstood in our postcommunist context. It took me
10 years to get the point since I am a baby of a communist Poland.
As far as secession is concerned, why is it that in the American context
the textbooks always suggest that it was not such a good idea. If we
believe that social groups should have a right to self-identification, any
secession should be considered as totally appropriate and any attempt to
crush it as a fascist-repression, I would think...:-) The Russians, like
the Americans in teh 19th century share the view of the federalists....
ania