Georgia`s president holds meeting with young people
25.02.11
Georgian President talked about occupation, heroism of the Cadets, who died in the last fight for independence in 1921 in Georgia and similarities of those events to the present days at the meeting with young prople on Friday.
Mikheil Saakashvili held meeting with descendants of the Cadets in the Museum of Occupation.
Mikheil Saakashvili talked about events of February 1921, when Georgia was attacked by the Red Army. On February 25, 1921 the Red Army entered the capital Tbilisi and installed a Moscow directed communist government there. The Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic was established on February 25, 1921.
The president said, Georgia should never make similar mistakes again.
"The country is strong and the nation is consolidated today", Saakashvili said. He added Georgia today has transformed but the same enemy, which continues to break down the Georgian statehood, although Georgia`s success is stipulated by its young generation and the ongoing process of reconstruction.
At the meeting in teh Museum of Occupation, teh president also said that there is no country without strong army, which should make its own contribution to development of the country.
