d.w. . first stupid school in the. first clueless and. then gore's grand moment arrives join during a tangle on her journey to freedom you know we're going to return to mention tour of the arena team returns home. his most famous son she has a style and full and but unforgotten. model protest is demonstrate against putin. a legit russian war crimes in the two thousand and eight conflict. the grave of a victim of that rousseau georgian ball. and a border that is not supposed to be called the border. so what's a hole in the road up the hole i'm going to write that georgia is divided into of

course that's an awful thing. you know sort of odds of it all but almost today this may sound very dystopia listeners will go but russia could divide this country. and keep a piece of it for itself those. who love god. and . he's got to do them and it's god and this piece of graffiti says we remember. it was probably straight here just yesterday heidi that you can see the red devil in the background of all the dates from the past two centuries in which russia did bad things to was georgians talk of stuff oh good so a lot of people know nothing about the states or still worse it says they know them and still don't get that russia is art. it's now let's head to the relative terms.

of each company as debut novel and this place has won the most prestigious georgian literature aborts. it even is to find out where georgia and its nearly four million inhabitants are headed first stop this demonstration in the capital tbilisi. it's a strange mixture the protesters include leftists and far right extremists feminists and gays and homophobes what seems to unite them is their nationalism bogus two thousand and eight so the flare up of the growing conflict the research georgian born lasted five days claimed eight hundred fifty lives and displaced many thousands. since then russia has occupied the former georgian territories of a process and south ossetia an area amounting to a fifth of the country. is living on the sign a vulgar equivalent of pittsburgh at last.

i am. doubt it is meeting some friends in front of the swiss embassy switzerland has been mediating between georgia and russia because the two countries have no direct diplomatic relations. images from the war human rights groups say both sides committed abuses but it's at the tbilisi rally only the russian war crimes are on the agenda. the public humiliation of georgian soldiers depicted here made a lasting impression on darby. song. i have to admit that the sheer power of russia makes me feel insecure all. this giant empire all of a solo and it's hard to fight against that i was one of them that's why i have this feeling of being completely unprotected it's all about. now

angus focused on the russian president. abbas and the nationalistic euphoria that followed georgian independence ninety ninety one the country's ethnic minorities when left out of the equation as effectively thrust into the arms of the russian it's. sad. but. then eighty five kilometer drive from tbilisi the city of gori. daveed is heading to his next stop the joseph stalin museum. you. have if you built in the soviet era the museum is a bizarre memorial to the brutal dictator joseph is our universe starting. it paints a picture of a benevolent father of his country. many of the visitors here are curious western tourists but some are genuine fans of

stalin who make the pilgrimage to the strife that is dedicated to one of the worst mass murderers of the twentieth century. up. here. in the museum they say that most of the stalin supporters come from russia. but no one is willing to say that to the camera out. there in the. plain downbeats is the pictures here he can't stop thinking of the atrocities of the stalin era in particular the so-called great purge of nine hundred thirty seven to thirty eight during which more than one hundred twenty georgian intellectuals were executed. dotted says that swears germany has taken steps to come to grips with its nazi

history georgia has done very little to publicly reappraise starlit. old museum which was built back then to glorify started the group since then nothing has been changed. nothing has been added to it without just a few pieces of information that mentions purges and the repression that was started with it's a propaganda museum. but nowadays a lot of people view it as a kind of museum of museums. graphic number. one tiny room is devoted to the war of two thousand and eight. it was made into michael dudley it asks the museum's curator. really why she hasn't changed anything in this uncritical celebration. for pottle dog.

it was a sheer circumstance and this is a museum and we have to tell the story of a man's life in a very short time going through its about his life and work with what that was said to people back then all the material came from the communist party. or today we try to show the man. a very isolated man by the way a loner. who ruled over a land with one hundred seventy million people. or thought of recent and more brutal and on a negative materiality anyone who wants to read that can find it on their computers all over the internet but our visitors come here to get to know style and live man . there we want to go slow. on all his travels davita immediately takes note somebody experiences. it until twenty

ten a large statue of stalin student central gori. dov it would like to seek out the fallen monument supposedly it's now lying in a disused industrial area outside the town the curator refused to tell him the exact location saying it would be shameful to display the great man in that way. mr putin doesn't you just get very good to be a stupid friend of a friend davita gets in touch with a chicken farmer from the area. says son leads him to the overthrown stalin figure . but. the two men have a difference of opinion about the fallen dictator. says he's not a stalinist but he had money as the dictator as

a kind of mystical being. a story that we're. all history shows that it's always the same. we have a saying in georgia at this it's the times that rain not caves that it's not an insult to stalin statue that someone who's not thinking right let me do it here on the scrap heap. and once you know real history not fake history realize what kind of man he was. please translate this word for word. says some would like to see stalin back on his pedestal in central glory. davita is considering wording the hypothetical return into his new novel. i don't. really have a court much about it so far but yes maybe in my pessimistic or dystopian novel it

could happen i see the current trend in russia where real stalin cult is growing again and they show quite openly how much interest they have how they worship him even russian politicians are doing that is another example of how strong russian influence is so well think about that for my book was that the governor michelle obama she was one hot woman who took the room so close i mean it was a meeting no one wants all the million i would. this is not an international border despite what the sign claims georgia on this side of the fence south the seashell on the other georgians call it occupied territory the south the seasons and the russians say and independent states. diplomats refer to this fence as the administers of boundary line with.

so much money. it's also expensive for russia to keep it to monitor it and punish us georgians. and then they make such an embarrassing mistake of translation. i have no idea how that could have happened. because. the words passage is forbidden is mistranslated into georgian as expenses are forbidden. georgians refuse to call the demarcation line a border because that would mean accepting the division of their country. since two thousand and eight observers from the e.u. monitoring mission in georgia have been patrolling here.

in twenty seventeen alone they registered one thousand six hundred incidents the conflict is tangible here every day. i don't really believe that my littering vision fantasy will actually become reality ga this is fiction i'm like all negative fiction it's also warming. it is good for me to see that because it helps me matching what a fictitious border in my book might look like. the fence divided the village of to valley overnight again and again georgian fanis who crossed over to work their fields on the south the solution side get arrested after being beaten and forced to pay a considerable fine they are let go. anyone could cross through the line for the third time the risks up to two years in jail in south ossetia that happen to neighbors of hama

a form in german teacher. who have been on in god we have a garden that's right over there on the borderline live with them if i go over there i can't take my grandchildren because they could be abducted any second by all the farmers and work over there in the garden isn't each and every day people get caught and hauled away oh i live in constant fear of them. three times suffered a seizure and russian soldiers set fire to thomas house but would she leave the area you never. hear about because this is where i work this is where i live it's my home it's my country it's my village where could i go where would i be allowed to go home and talk to us if that's true right now what do you think he should be cannot leave i never want to leave i will go on living here i will die

here and my children and grandchildren will live here mind their ankle they're. right next to the highway instead of bonnie a settlement built as an emergency shelter ten years ago. it still. houses eight thousand of the total thirty thousand ethnic georgians who were expelled from south a seizure. there's a sense of resignation on the streets here via test just been out shopping. he's the only one willing to speak to dive it on camera. never get used to it but what can we do that's very hard for the older people to bear those many of them have already died but the young people are only now

starting to fix up these houses. they have no choice. this is party on the black sea coast. the port city is still left dated as far as dab it can see there's been little development here for years. is important for the georgian economy but it's not a place many tourists are likely to visit. this is where davita bunia grew up in a working class family his parents still live here as does his sister with whom he's very close.

but although david loves to see his sister cutter and his nieces not her and he says he'd never move back to portie every visit here recalls the negative experiences of his you've. done openly gay something that can be risky in provincial georgia although his family accepts his sexuality. daveed is expounding his theory about the division of the country his sister doesn't buy it. i don't believe georgia would be divided into two parts how could that happen but i simply don't believe it. it's nieces dottle as they call him as a kind of cultural trailblazer. he says and he introduces them to unusual literature. today it's especially hard for him to say goodbye.

his come to the hardest part of his journey. on the first day of the two thousand and eight will his cousin shell of a died in a hail of russian bombs. davita couldn't make it from tbilisi to the funeral because all the roads and rail tracks were blocked by russian tanks. since then he has never dared to come here. he often weeks over the thoughts of his nineteen year old cousin who had been accepted to a university in dubai he died the day before he was scheduled to fly out.

silva was killed while rescuing his wounded comrades he was awarded a posthumous medal for bravery. sits at the grave for a long time he doesn't want to talk here. a few hours later we accompany him to his favorite place in portie. davita is relieved to have finally been to the cemetery but the middle doesn't interest him. like james uppers and it makes

absolutely no. difference to me. this is big consolation to my aunt she's really proud of that i. don't know it's a big comfort for. my pluggers she says but for me tempers i just wish she was still alive so it's my commitment you know it's funny. doesn't it takes the train back to to policing. since its independence nearly three decades ago georgia has undergone visible modernization of the country's political system has developed in parallel to its infrastructure. but still children artists and intellectuals do not feel entirely free that.

you can write whatever you want or you can do what you want to not the government won't interfere. but a large part of our society is extremely conservative. and conservative is far too mild a word. and that part of society will not let us live freely. to put it in a nutshell you have the freedom to express yourself but at the same time you don't . not just sitting close by has been listening to. she left the country twenty years ago for a life in europe her home is in london. she says the changes in georgia happening much too slowly she comes back once again and experiences the country as still lacking freedom fighters' it used to be back nine states. this is horrific things that need to be paid attention to him. right. yeah.

yeah. tbilisi is the cultural and political center of georgia and its religious center to . the orthodox christian church wields a huge amount of power and by western european standards it's very conservative. nowadays davi spends almost more time abroad than here in the old quarter of tbilisi. from an early age he knew that he wanted to travel which is why he learned german russian and swedish his english is so good that when he was twenty one he was commissioned to translate harry potter into georgia.

after weeks of moving around georgia daveed is back home. he spends the next few hours typing up his notes from his travels. it started out as a research trip for his new book but some of the stages proved much more emotional than he expected. in the coming months he will be developing his fantasy about the division of georgia into two parts one loyal to russia and one oriented toward you . here at the royal district here sensibly see davita and his old friend directed dancer to. our inspecting the stage set for their production of dov it's play tiger and lion.

if you don't have believes that artistic freedom is still under threat in georgia. you got the dylan your so record mob would still totally easy to shock audiences or readers in this country. which is why there are always attempts to control free speech and orator. more generally that's also being considered at the government level. just recently there was another initiative to control artists more strongly but luckily it failed because. process is. put down a bit this theater is a safe haven. even here in tbilisi it is hard to lead an openly gay life. the riots the repressive measures every time someone reveals their sexual identity

there are massive reprisals against and also in political circles to go where gay people are often blackmailed and of course this reaction is not only supported by the georgian church but also instigated rules from a shop so this is a huge problem and the government can't little chicago won't solve it problem are almost like the hunted were very rare and. this cafe in the old course have to be lisi is a popular meeting place for artists to dive it is having a discussion with a psychologist friend thomas casually. tama is a member of the georgian ethnic minority of south ossetia. his family was driven out by the war and lived. for

a while in the center of on the emergency shelter this. data tells to him about his experiences on the trip his first encounter with the administrative boundary line left a deep impression. at the meeting with tom are the german teacher his neighbors are regularly abducted wrote to the will follow through difficulty when you go there and experience it in person the fence stops being a symbol or a cool design at a demonstration is not a trick of totally different emotions especially when you meet people who live five meters away from that fence with them at the trees but i don't want to sound sentimental but that was the moment where it became clear to me how differently those villages see the division. of pictures from auburn for them every single day is a problem of those. tomo settled into police is some time ago. and davi to look forward not back. they wish that more democratic and artistic impulses

would come here from europe. when they start to feel stifled by their country they can find respect by travelling in the west. but for both of them heard is georgia.

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