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 Some thoughts from Georgia 🇬🇪

During last 10 days I spent time talking with some people living in Georgia and asking them about its problem. And biggest problem of Georgia is their neighbor #Russia 

Althought there was war between Georgia and Russia in 2008, Georgia still accepted Russian in their terriotory (Bidzina Ivanishvili, former prime minister, got lot of money in Russia and now he kinda support them).

Local people don't want russia citizents to live in Georgia - at streets you can see lot of writting on wall as "Russian go home", "Russia is terrorist state " or "Fuck Russia ". And I also experianced negative behavior towards me when people thought that I am from Russia (blond hair, blue eyes and slavic language). And to be honest I cannot blame these people to do that - after spending some time in Georgia I have started to feel same against #Russia 🥴

I mean if you are from Russia and traveling around with big smile on your face while your country is doing horrible things - you are also one to blame. Your taxes support it - so if you have money to travel you also have money to change your tax residency 🙏

So that is for now, maybe some other thoughts later.