The strange normality of life in a breakaway state
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Re: The strange normality of life in a breakaway state
#2Abkhazia lost more than half its population. That would change things fairly dramatically.
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#3Honest question: I don’t get what is strange about this normality, can someone share their perspective? Mine is skewed as I grew up in Transnistria and visited a few years ago.
My guess is that it seems strange only if you expected those territories to be in a constant state of war. No, they are not under siege, but life is not exactly dandy there, either.
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#4It is not normal in Abkhazia at all, it is depressingly suffocating for the young generation to survive there with no hope of normal life. There is no longer any Russian financial support, they are broke now. Kids are allowed to drink alcohol at an early age because of their old traditions, drugs and suicide are rampant, even the coach of a football team was caught doing cocaine, and the legal system is broke due to tribalism. I visited Abkhazia last July, they are cut off, no airport, no seaport, just one crossing controlled by Russians.No real economy, just Russian tourists who would generate some business in the summer, now in winter I heard many calls for help. (edited for spelling)
Re: The strange normality of life in a breakaway state
#5Abkhazia lost more than half its population. That would change things fairly dramatically.
Things are in limbo, destroyed buildingS are still deserted, lives shattered, this 5-year-old documentary seems from yesterday, I went there 3 months ago, nothing is normal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYGyyuxRPws
Re: The strange normality of life in a breakaway state
#6Any crappy country feels "normal" while visiting. Not so much when trying to get a job or medical care.
Re: The strange normality of life in a breakaway state
#7Abkhazia lost more than half its population. That would change things fairly dramatically.
"Lost" obscures the fact that the ethnic Georgian majority of Abkhazia's pre-1993 population was ethnically cleansed, with 20-30 thousand civilians killed (most were brutally murdered, not mere collateral damage of indiscriminate warfare).
This was accomplished against a rag-tag army of the newly independent Georgia because the Abkhazian rebels were controlled (armed, financed, provided with air support and heavy weaponry, and thousands of mercenaries) directly by Russia.
Current breakaway Abkhazia is a byproduct of genocide and imperialism, pure and simple.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_cleansing_of_Georgians_...
Re: The strange normality of life in a breakaway state
#8Honest question: I don’t get what is strange about this normality, can someone share their perspective? Mine is skewed as I grew up in Transnistria and visited a few years ago. My guess is that it seems strange only if you expected those territories to be in a constant state of war. No, they are not under siege, but life is not exactly dandy there, either.
I think it's that people expect more disruption of normal, daily activities from being outside of international recognition (and without a major economy like Taiwan's). War may be part of it, or just hearing more about "failed states" like Somalia.
Re: The strange normality of life in a breakaway state
#9Honest question: I don’t get what is strange about this normality, can someone share their perspective? Mine is skewed as I grew up in Transnistria and visited a few years ago. My guess is that it seems strange only if you expected those territories to be in a constant state of war. No, they are not under siege, but life is not exactly dandy there, either.
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Re: The strange normality of life in a breakaway state
#10Honest question: I don’t get what is strange about this normality, can someone share their perspective? Mine is skewed as I grew up in Transnistria and visited a few years ago. My guess is that it seems strange only if you expected those territories to be in a constant state of war. No, they are not under siege, but life is not exactly dandy there, either.
> I grew up in Transnistria
Can I ask, what's the main language? Russian right, not a dialect? Not Ukranian? If I spoke Moscow Russian there would I be understood?
Also is it fairly socialist or...? Just wondering from all the СССР insignia.