The Head of the Communist Party of Ukraine about the South Ossetian Conflict

Head of the Communist Party of Ukraine Petro Simonenko in his declaration classifies the attack as "the third division" and calls upon not giving in to the USA and their satellites. Simonenko states that the Saakashvili regime ruthlessly committed the act of genocide towards South Ossetians without regard to any Christian and human values and international law. Simonenko calls for reviewing the underlying motives of those who "from the back stage give orders to defreeze international conflicts in Eurasia." Simonenko defines three key steps in the process of dividing territories. The first one is the break-up of the socialist system, the second period is the epoch of "orange revolutions" and the third one, the fall-apart of the myth of "democratic regimes".

In the last quarter of the 20th century capitalist countries imposed onto the socialist camp an arms race which exhausted the latter’s economy. This, believes Simonenko, created preconditions for the West to revise the Potsdam and Helsinki agreements and thus realize the first postwar division of the world. At the same time the West actively formed the so called "democratic opposition" for undermining the socialist states within, as well as bringing to the stage of ideological struggle a variety of nationalist movements within the socialist states. The masterminds continuously added wood to the fire of ethnic and religious differences speculating on the peoples’ historical tragedies and thus ripping apart established political and cultural ties between socialist nations. One of the bloodiest examples of radical nationalists taking power was former Yugoslavia. Today tensions grow in Transnistria, between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, Nagorno-Karabakh keeps oozing, and almost the entire Caucasus has been festering since the 90s. Once a multinational home based on equality and social justice and national friendships, it has now been dismantled into "separate national apartments", concludes Simonenko.

The second division are the multiple so-called revolutions which swept Georgia, Ukraine, Belorussia and Moldova. The second division presupposed the USA’s and their allies’ establishment in the Balkans, strengthening their position in the Caucasus and in Central Asia and hindering cooperation of Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Belarus. Simonenko claims that having themselves established in the Balkans would help the USA gain obedience of their European allies. Simonenko, along with many others, believes that establishing the pro-American regimes in the Caucasus and in Central Asia guarantees them access to much desired energy resources. Simonenko rightfully notes that the USA toils to prevent the creation of the Russia-Ukraine-Belorussia-Kazakhstan politico-economic union as their possible rival. For this reason the "geopolitical chess players" interfered in the affairs of these states directly by orchestrating in Eurasia a sequence of "coloured revolutions" and installing the leaders of their choice in these banana republics. "People in these countries believed in the illusion of capitalist democracy and later paid a heavy price for it." At this stage, there has been a sharp turn towards worsening of the relationships of these republics with Russia and all efforts were focused on Ukraine and Georgia joining the North Atlantic bloc.

"Today’s events in the Caucasus are not only a new round of sharpening of the conflict there, but an attempt of the third world division orchestrated by the same strategists on Capitol Hill. The USA is working to create a world system which excludes any centre of power outside of itself." Simonenko believes it is the weakening economic might of the USA and its currency that instigates its striving towards preservation of it hegemony. Simonenko believes that the USA assisted Georgia it its attack on South Ossetia in order to destabilise the region where "China, Russia and Old Europe are competitors and pose a threat to the hegemony of Uncle Sam." He supposes the dominant power resort to methods such as military destabilisation of regions when "coloured revolutions" fail.

Saakashvili took up a direction towards militarization of his country from early on.

Georgian military budget:

2003 - $30Mill

2004 - $$90Mill

2005 - $200Mill

2006 - $500Mill

2007 - $850Mill, end of 2007 actual expenditure $1Bill

2008 - $1.5Bill suggested

The Stockholm International Institute which studies militarization market in 2007 named Georgia the world leader in growth of armed forces expansion. A great number of foreign instructors were involved in training the Georgian military forces, mainly from the USA and Israel, says Simonenko. The number of Georgian soldiers has been increasing at the same time. In this way, during Shevardnadze years there were 6,000 soldiers and officers in Georgian army, but since mid 2007 there were 32,000. Georgia also has 100,000 reserve forces.

This conflict has demonstrated a dangerous point at which the world finds itself today. This is what nationalist rulers’ ill-fated ambitions can lead to. At the doorstep of the third division these rulers were revealed and their masks torn off: the presidents of Ukraine, Poland, Estonia, Lithuania, and the prime minister of Latvia arrived in Tbilisi to support Saakashvili’s regime. By doing this, they have shown to the world what true values and ally obligations tie them.

The Ukrainian government contributed to arming Georgia by being the key provider of military technology and arms to Georgia last year, as published in the UN trade report. According to this report, in 2007 Georgia imported 74 tanks, 6 armoured vehicles, 9 artillery systems, 8 airplanes, 10,800 rockets and launch systems and 28,800 guns. Among these weapons, Ukraine supplied Georgia with tanks, airplanes and armoured vehicles. Ukraine has also exported to Georgia 5 artillery systems, 495 rockets and launch systems, and 19,964 guns. The monetary value of all the Ukrainian contribution exceeds $100Mill.

It is not clear if the money from these sales made it to the state budget. We must also find out to what other hot spots the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence, which reports to president Yushchenko directly, sell weapons. Communists will insist on the creation of a parliamentary committee on this question and making these facts known to Ukrainian society.

Having received the "go ahead" from Washington the "fore post of Western democracy", as Mr. Saakashvili called himself, fired at the legitimate peacekeeping forces. By this Mr. Saakashvili demonstrated to the world community the true attitude of the Georgian leadership to the well known norms of international law. For three days the world has been balancing on the brink of the WWIII.