Huge Protests Sweep Across Tbilisi
POPULAR FRONT
Jake Hanrahan
4.8 • 978 Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Today we speak to politcal commentator and Georgian protester Gattsu. He tells us about the largescale anti-"Russian law" protests happening right now in Georgia, where many believe the government needs to be overthrown.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Popular Front podcast with me Jake Hanrahan. |
| 0:06.6 | We're focused on the niche details of modern warfare and underreported conflict |
| 0:11.8 | all across the world. Popular Front is |
| 0:14.4 | completely independent. Today we're speaking to Gatsu. He is a sort of |
| 0:21.5 | political commentator on YouTube and a protester in the country of Georgia. |
| 0:28.0 | He's going to be talking to us about the controversial new law that the government there is trying to push through yet again |
| 0:34.5 | that will basically bring the country much closer to Putin's Russia. Many people |
| 0:40.4 | went out onto the streets to protest this over the weekend, seeing some of Georgia's biggest protests ever. |
| 0:47.0 | If you like what we're doing, support us at patreon.com slash Popular Front. Patreon. Over the weekend, George has seen some of the biggest protests ever, or at least for a long time. |
| 1:10.0 | Before we get into like these protests, were they actually about what has the government done |
| 1:14.7 | that's made people come out into the streets like this I know there have been protests every year for the last couple years a lot of them got violent |
| 1:21.8 | with the police attacking protesters and vice versa but this is |
| 1:25.8 | really really big from what I saw just the visuals alone I was like wow that's huge so why are people out in such big numbers? |
| 1:33.0 | Yeah, well, I mean, the main thing is, like, so the Georgian dream is more of a Russian dream. |
| 1:39.0 | Because, first of all, it's literally run by a Russian oligarch like the only reason this |
| 1:45.0 | two got rich is because he owns a percentage of gas prom and like you don't own a |
| 1:49.1 | percentage of gas from out of like you know like being and stuff, like you have to be like a Russian oligarch for this. |
| 1:56.0 | And like, they, like, so last year they started to introduce this law called thing in 2012 and like the reason why this law was bad, right, |
| 2:08.0 | was because the Russia introduced the same exact thing in 2012 and like and like they basically used it to destroy |
| 2:16.9 | civil society and it leads it led now 12 years later to the Russia you see |
| 2:21.6 | today which is just like completely insane with no freedom of speech, like actual |
| 2:26.8 | totalitarian, nearly North Korea level state, you know? |
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