And there is more then 2000 comments about war in South Osetia – interesting to read opposite opinions –

http://www.russia-vs-georgia.com/

In the name of “peacekeeping” Russia has levelled Tskhinvali, the city it claimed to be protecting. The Russians along with vigillantes from Chechnia and North Ossetia are engaged in looting, pillaging, kidnapping, murder, rape, and ethnic cleansing of Georgians.

In Chechnia the Russian soldiers regularly supplimented their insufficient salary with ransom from kidnapping. Is this happening now in Georgia?

When you look at what is happening in Georgia you see scenes from what we in the West thought happened only in the past. Are the Poles surprised? Are the Checks surprised? No. Those people experienced Russians first hand in the last century. But this is also the behavior of 21st century Russia.

What is happening in Georgia is the cold war in a microcosm. It puts the difference in values between Russia and Europe under a magnifying glass so everyone in the world can see it clearly. Europe and the US stand for democracy, individual freedom and the rule of law. Russia stands for looting, pillaging, kidnapping, murder, rape and ethnic cleansing.

But the biggest difference is that Russia is proud of these actions and wants them to be known around the world because they believe it will generate fear, respect and thus cooperation from other countries. In the west, we attract allies through our own example. Peoples want to join the west. They want to live in countries like ours, not because they are afraid of us, but because they want safety and freedom and do not want to be subject to stallinist practices.

How tragically ironic that today those techniques which made Stallin fameous are being inflicted on innocent people in the country in which he was born.