Cannoneer No. 4
2008-08-14 05:22:39
Alexis, your 11:03 pm
I had a spirited discussion with a Georgian colleague on that exact topic a few years ago. The Georgians are not a numerous people, and their rich oral tradition is mostly the retelling of thousands years of heroic tales of Georgians outsmarting, outfighting, and out terrorizing everybody else.
He told me “Stalin was a bastard, of course, but he was one of the worst bastards that ever lived, and he was our bastard.”
