Hello, you are listening to Lions Lead by Donkeys and it's Omar Tso Soria again.

Georgian leftist speaking about leftist stuff here, our leftist history, let's say.

Today I want to thank the hosts of this beautiful show, Joe and Annie.

And I was telling the story of Curia Republic of three people of Guria, let's say.

We were in the middle of really interesting story. Yeah. It just started picking up, you know,

a priest got shot, a priest who was a traitor, you know. Georgians yet again trusted a priest.

They shouldn't have done that. Another thing that Georgians and Irish people have in common,

they learn not to trust the local

priests.

No.

They just don't learn anymore.

I mean, speaking of, you know, just merge again the history and the current times

of both of our countries here.

Like earlier, Omar, you mentioned in the other episode that Armenians are less religious in those terms than Georgians in terms of when it comes believing in church as an institution.

Things are a little bit changing in Armenia, which is kind of a reflection of our political reality at the moment when, you know, we don't like the

current government. We don't like the older regimes. Now the current government is going

after the church. Like, I mean... Also don't like the opposition. Yeah, that's what I meant by

former regimes because that's what the opposition is. And currently going out to the church and

there's this whole talk and conversation, just

discourse in general, that, oh, but like the church is about tradition, the Armenian church

has spent less time being a state than Georgia has. And a lot of those times, like priests were

kind of the leaders, the political leaders, the organizers, the management,

...