TSKHINVALI. May 5 (Interfax) - People in Ukraine have been brainwashed by foreign agents, same as it happened earlier in Georgia, acting South Ossetian Foreign Minister David Sanakoyev said.
"The current events in Ukraine and the events, which took place in Georgia over the past 20 years, are links of the same chain. For the past two decades the population of Georgia and Ukraine has been brainwashed by various foreign organizations sponsoring local NGOs," Sanakoyev told Interfax on Sunday.
In his opinion, the foreign agents created nationalist groups, which became the main strike force of the Georgian Rose Revolution and the Ukrainian Maidan.
The transformation of national mentality in Georgia resulted in "the death of many people, broken lives, the economic breakdown and other severe consequences," he said.
Further advancement along the Georgian trail "threatens Ukraine with the collapse of its statehood," the acting foreign minister indicated.
"We can only hope that the Ukrainian people will be strong and wise enough to stop the slide into the abyss of civil war and resort to civilized methods of settlement of disagreements, while the international community will finally realize who it is actually dealing with," Sanakoyev said.