Comments by "dvv" (@dvv18) on "The Road to the Russian Border 🇬🇪→🇷🇺" video.

  1.  @jackalski  Molotov/Ribbentrop, as well as the Winter War and the Manchurian campaign are not a big secret, and they are considered a part of WWII in Russia. Of course, you cannot milk much jingoistic propaganda out of it — just like, say, you cannot milk much out of the Polish and Ukrainian antisemitic atrocities during the Polish-Ukrainian conflict right after the collapse of the Russian Empire or during WWII. Or the fact that Ukraine still holds on to some Polish, Czech/Hungarian, and Romanian territories courtesy of the same Molotov/Ribbentrop and later Yalta agreements — all with the direct involvement of one Iossif V. Dzhugashvili a.k.a. "Stalin" a.k.a. the second most prolific murderer of the XX century. It's just that some history is less convenient than other, that's all. And while Georgians valiantly fighting and dying against the Nazi Germany and "for Motherland, for Stalin" is still held sacred in Georgia, there is not a lot of popular demand to commemorate the 1939 partition of Poland there nowadays.
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  2. It's the only border crossing between the Republic of Georgia and the Russian Federation at this time.
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  3. Roman used the more familiar term WWII as a shorthand. The monument is, in fact, a memorial to what is known as the Soviet Great Patriotic War, and it indeed lasted from June 22, 1941 to May 9, 1945. Events surrounding it— the (yet another) partition of Poland in 1939, the Winter War shortly after that, the Manchurian campaign in August of 1945 — are not considered parts of the GPW.
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  4.  @FriedrichBarb  So lemme guess — you live in your mom's basement and help her with chores? Very thoughtful of you indeed.
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  5.  @FriedrichBarb  now I'm confused about what you're saying: is sticking around at your patients' house the right thing to do, or is it insulting? Please clarify.
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