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Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili for CNN on the Smolensk plane crash, on Polish President Lech Kaczyński - April 10th, 2010. 06:50 - "There is something incredibly evil about the whole thing [...] ultimately good will always defeat evil, even if what happened today was an absolutely evil tragedy."
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On Saturday 13 March, 2010, Georgia's Imedi TV associated with President Mikheil Saakashvili, aired a special program on the re-invasion of Georgia by the Russian Federation. Created along the lines of the famous "War of the Worlds" by Orson Welles, this quasi-report consisted of true archival shots. The program was so suggestive, that it immediately caused panic in Georgian society, and then when it was revealed to be a hoax, it aroused anger among Russian politicians. The program contained also a Polish thread. The writers of the program reported that a plane flying to Tbilisi with Lech Kaczynski on board was shot down by the Russians. As a result of this attack, the Polish president and all members of the delegation accompanying him, died. Mikheil Saakashvili criticized the program, but in an interview with reporters, and later in a given statement, he let people understand that the events presented in the program should be understood as real Russian plans (possibly revealed by Georgian intelligence sources).
Saakashvili, after losing the recent presidential election to Giorgi Margvelashvili of the pro-Russian Georgian Dream party, is said to be soon facing criminal charges. But, Ukraine was first on the list. The situation in Georgia currently strikingly resembles the Ukrainian experience. The Central Eastern European buffer region is shifting east, as a sacrafice, with western permission.