"Defend Georgia, oppose the independence of Abkhazia, preserve the unity of Georgia ......"

"Abkhazia is the inherent territory of Georgia, and whoever wants to divide Georgia is the enemy of the Georgian people......"

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In Khusumi, the capital of the Abkhaz Autonomous Region, the opposition, led by Gamsahurdia, suddenly announced a hunger strike to defend Georgia's sovereignty and territorial integrity with their own lives. The Soviet government had to urgently cut off communications and postal services in the city of Khusumi, and even satellite signals were blocked. The Government of the Abkhaz Autonomous Region took over the radio and television stations in the region on an emergency basis, and half an hour after the incident, the only program available to the residents of the Autonomous Region was a warning statement broadcast on a loop by the Government.

But no matter how much the news was blocked, the foreign media stationed in the USSR still knew about it. However, Georgia has now banned foreigners from entering. The name of Gamsakhurdzia spread throughout Georgia overnight. Originally, the question of the ownership of Abkhazia was only a matter of administrative divisions within the Soviet Union, but Gamsakhurdia raised it to the national question between Georgia and other ethnic groups, and the inflammatory nature of this incident made many young Georgians consciously or unconsciously coerced into it.

In fact, the Soviet government did nothing wrong, Abkhazia was originally the inherent land of the Abkhazians, but after the establishment of the Soviet Union, it was assigned to Georgia because of management problems. Because of Abkhazia's proximity to the Black Sea, it gradually flourished, and with it, the proportion of ethnic Georgians began to rise, and gradually became the mainstream ethnic group in Abkhazia.

Because of the xenophobic character of the Georgians, the Abkhazians and the Georgians have been in constant conflict for decades. The Abkhazians were desperate to join the Soviet Union or join the Russian Republic independently, but this call was seen as a betrayal of Georgia. The Georgian opposition seized the opportunity to make trouble, and instead of advocating how to resolve the contradictions between the two ethnic groups, the Georgian opposition intensified its persecution of the Abkhazians, and as a result, serious ethnic antagonism between the Georgians, the Abkhaz, and the Russians in Abkhazia emerged.

The Georgian opposition wants the territory of Abkhazia, but wants to drive the Abkhazians from this land. This kind of extreme nationalism is almost a fight with Nazi Germany, but the birds that can chirp will eat the worm, and Gamsahurdzia's performance has won widespread support in the international community, and if the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to him, it will be a humiliation for the Nobel Committee.

Gamsakhurdia's sudden hunger strike left the Georgian government feeling helpless. Although the first secretary of Georgia, Patiashvili, decisively prevented the further spread of the news, rumors were already flying in the territory of the Republic of Georgia. A large number of Georgian ultra-nationalists, sympathetic to the hunger strikers led by Gamsahurdzia, began to rush to Abkhazia in various ways. Patiashvili hoped that the Central Committee of Georgia would agree to his proposal for a blockade of Abkhazia, but this proposal was aborted because of disunity and factional fighting within the Georgian party committee.

In desperation, Patiashvili could only report the matter to the central government and ask for the central government's decision. This is tantamount to kicking the ball to Gorbachev again. Gorbachev didn't know what to do with it. The Politburo has been meeting since Seryosha left, and there was no result until 12 o'clock in the evening. In fact, everyone knows that in this case, it is better to let the police and the military intervene to bring the situation under control. But no one wants to take on this responsibility. Once you bear the notoriety of repression by force, it is definitely a political stain that cannot be washed away in this life.

The Politburo was in session, and Seryosha was also thinking about Georgia when he returned home. Seryosha originally only wanted the Georgian issue to hold back Ligachev's retreat. Let him and Shevardnadze be in an endless struggle, thereby deregulating the USSR Foreign Trade Bank and the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation. However, Seryosha inadvertently used Komsomolskaya Pravda to incite Georgian ultranationalists, which was not Seryosha's original intention. The establishment of the Leningrad Special Economic Zone in Seryosha has only just begun, and it would be a pity if the situation in Georgia affected the construction of the Leningrad Special Economic Zone.

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It wasn't just Seryosha who was worried about the night, Shevardnadze, who was sitting on the plane to Moscow at this moment, also frowned and looked at the clouds in the twilight. Just an hour ago, Shevardnadze received a call from the Kremlin from which Shevardnadze learned about what was happening today in Abkhazia. Shevardnadze was also frightened at that time, so he ended his visit to Hungary and hurried back to deal with the Georgian problem.

Sitting on the plane, Shevardnadze was physically and mentally exhausted, and he went to Hungary to determine the relationship between the new leadership of the CPSU and the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party. The current Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party is no longer in charge of Comrade Kadar, and the newly elected General Secretary Gross Karoy wants to establish a new, equal party-to-party relationship with the CPSU, and no longer the relationship between the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party under the Kadar party. In tandem with this trend of thinking, the Hungarian government and Austria entered into a dialogue on the border issue, bypassing the Soviet Union, and the two countries agreed to open the border and allow a limited free movement of people between the two countries, which was tantamount to tearing a hole in the Iron Curtain. However, this opening has solved the problem of Hungarian material supply, and Western goods have begun to flood the Hungarian consumer market, and people no longer have to wait in long queues in front of food stores. Looking at Gross Karroy's triumphant expression, Shevardnadze even wanted to knock him to the ground with a punch.

The Soviet Red Army stationed in Hungary had not yet been withdrawn, and if the party general secretary had been Stalin, even if it was any of Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov, or Chernenko, Gross Karloy would have been taken to the execution ground to be executed. However, the Soviet Red Army, now stationed in Hungary, had to huddle in the barracks and allow the Hungarian consciousness to slide to the west. How sad!

Shevardnadze knew that Gorbachev would not agree to another Hungarian October incident by the Red Army (in 1956, the Soviet Union suppressed the Hungarian reformists by force, and executed Nagy, then the first secretary of the Hungarian Working People's Party, after which Kadar came to power, and the Hungarian Working People's Party was renamed the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party). Gorbachev cherished his reputation too much, and he did not have the courage of Soviet leaders such as Khrushchev to bear the notoriety of repression by force. But when the country is in danger, someone has to stand up, and that person is supposed to be the general secretary of the CPSU, but when it is time to take responsibility, he chooses to retreat, and the last supreme ruler who did so has been beheaded, he is the last Tsar Nicholas II.