Saakashvili’s Foundation to make documentary about USSR

The Georgian government in assistance with President Mikheil Saakashvili’s Foundation has launched campaign to shoot documentary about foreign policy of the USSR, Vremya Novostey reported.

In particular, the documentary will cover issues related to relations between the Soviet Union and Finland, the Baltic nations, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan (these countries met invasion of the Soviet Army). The series will draw the line with modern policy of Russia towards Georgia, which Georgia describes as “an occupation policy.”

The series will be 30 minute-long each and will be included in a 15-series season. Georgian parliament said that the series can be screened in Russia if the Russian side expresses wish “to condemn such policy.”

This summer the Georgian parliament voted for a bill to mark The Day of the Soviet Occupation of Georgia on February 25 (this day comes as anniversary of invasion of the Red Army – the Army of the USSR – into Tbilisi in 1921 and Georgia’s accession to the USSR.) Earlier, the Museum of the Soviet Occupation opened in Tbilisi.