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...starters, the governments of Russia and Georgia have very different ideas on who the bad guys are. Moscow has long demanded the right to attack all Chechen fighters based inside Georgian territory, in particular a group of Chechen rebels sheltering in the Pankisi Gorge. Georgia, eager to break free of two centuries of Russian influence, has labeled the rebels "Chechen freedom fighters" - and has refused Russia permission to launch operations in the Pankisi...
...they've invited the U.S. to come into Pankisi instead, to train Georgian forces for an ongoing anti-terrorism mission. The U.S. and Georgia say their target will be about a dozen Arab extremists based in the area, believed to be long-time volunteers with a militant Chechen faction (rather than stragglers from Afghanistan). But they won't be launching an all-out campaign against Chechen fighters in the Pankisi...
...racial issues discussed in Hart’s War represent another of the film’s strong points. In a poignant monologue, one of the accused soldiers discusses how German POWs were allowed in Georgian movie theaters and diners, whereas he himself was not allowed to enter, even while in uniform. The discrepancy between the American quest to end the Nazi racial program and its own discriminatory racial policy in America’s mainland is a harrowing concept that is nicely illustrated in the film...
Targamadze had become the unsavory symbol of a Shevardnadze government beset by corruption, ineptitude and vested interests, particularly the interests of the Shevardnadze family. "Since '97, [when post-civil war economic recovery started to slow] there has been little progress," explains Alex Rondeli, a political commentator for the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies. "People expected reforms. There was hope - and then everything stopped." Unemployment, unpaid salaries, beggarly pensions, a collapsing infrastructure and severe electricity shortages plagued the long-suffering population. People worried about getting kerosene in the winter or medicines for sick relatives. And they watched, bitterly...
Apart from his stint as Soviet Foreign Minister from 1985 to 1991, Shevardnadze has ruled Georgia for the past 29 years, initially as First Secretary of the Georgian Socialist Republic's Communist Party. Things had been the same for so long that it seemed they would never change. But at the end of October, Rustavi 2 was raided by agents from the Security Ministry - and loyal viewers decided they had had enough. Thousands took to the streets in protest. Shevardnadze, facing a popular crisis, fired his entire cabinet...