The war in Ossetia: a story of great lies and shameful cowardice.

Date 08.08.08 for most residents of Ossetia, as for a huge number of Russians, is unlikely to ever be associated with the beginning of the Olympic Games. That night, when Georgian tanks entered the peaceful and unarmed Tskhinval, everything else ceased to be important. And for a long time in memory will not remain sporting achievements, but tears, pain and tons of lies, from under the rubble of which even today it is difficult to extract a grain of truth.

The war in South Ossetia in 2008 has a very short history - it lasted less than a week, but its bloody trail touched too many to go unnoticed. Between the rocket attack on the sleeping city that started at midnight on August 8 and the end of the military operation "on compelling the Georgian authorities to peace", dated August 12 - two thousand deaths and an almost completely destroyed ancient city.

According to the brutality shown by the Georgian military and the senselessness of the atrocities committed by them, the war in Ossetia did not know analogs in the modern world. The only comparison that the eyewitnesses of those events did was the most terrible episodes of the Second World War. It could hardly be imagined that in the modern world, civilized people are capable of squashing pregnant women and old people in tanks, burning entire families alive and throwing grenades into basements with people. But all this, unfortunately, was. There were bayonets pierced by members of Georgia's elite military units in the belly of a pregnant woman, tanks that pressed children were burned from their own cars alive by the family.

It would seem that the war in Ossetia opened the eyes of the world to the insanity of not only the president of independent Georgia, but also to the frank madness of his soldiers, because whatever order you get, only you decide to pull the trigger, pointing the gun at the child. But somehow incomprehensible to a sensible person, it all happened quite differently. Russian peacekeepers, who at the cost of their lives saved the peaceful population of Tskhinvali from a senseless slaughter, poured mud from the western press.

Russia's actions were called aggression against the free Georgian people, an attempt to seize an independent country, and the Russian authorities, with the help of the thickest black colors, turned into tyrants who dream of seizing new lands. More than a loyal US attitude towards Georgia, the Secretary of State has taken the side of Saakashvili and declared that the war in Ossetia 2008 was completely provoked by the Russian side. Western propaganda, as if recalling the days of the Cold War, began to blatantly accuse Moscow of all mortal sins, not sparing epithets and creating a picture of almost nazi Germany. To this day, assessments of the West with regard to this war are far from ambiguous.

Even the shameful facts of the flight of the "elite" troops, who realized that they will have to deal not only with unarmed old men, but also with real military men, have not found coverage in the foreign press. Meanwhile, the war in Ossetia, like a litmus test, revealed the incomprehensible and inexplicable cowardice of the Georgian military, who left not only the battlefield, but also their permanent dislocation during the panic flight.

Against this background, the Georgian authorities' statements that the Russians were trying to reach Tbilisi served as a ridiculous attempt to justify themselves. If they tried, they would have reached it - hardly a dozen brave Georgian military men would have found themselves on the way to a truly professional army.

The war in Ossetia led to sad results: the destroyed city was being restored for several years, diplomatic relations between Moscow and Tbilisi ceased to exist as such, but the worst thing is not this. The most terrible thing is the understanding that in today's world there are people who, on the orders of their half-mad leader, are ready to awaken the sleeping beast and begin to tear, kill and burn without thinking about the consequences.