This is same man who has said that he is missing the
law-and-order-and-national-power days of Stalin (overlooking the fact,
in the context of the current clash, that Mr. Dzhugashvili was born in
Gori, now occupied by troops of Gergiev-buddy Putin). And, do Georgians
really qualify as modern-day Nazi superpower aggressors?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4579829.ece

   The theme was Russiaa's victory over Georgia; the spirit
   was Second World War defiance; the music was from Leningrad
   - and the conductor was from London.

   Surrounded by soldiers and barbed wire, hundreds crowded
   into the centre of Tskhinvali to see Valery Gergiev conduct
   the Maryinsky Orchestra from St Petersburg as Russia staged
   a victory concert amid the ruins of the capital of South
   Ossetia.

   From the mournful first bars of Shostakovitcha's Symphony
   No 7 (known as the Leningrad) in the makeshift arena, it
   was clear that the theme of the night was a stirring appeal
   to patriotism and the memories of Russian suffering during
   the Second World War.

   Gergiev is an Ossetian, and grew up in North Ossetia. He
   is also a close friend of Vladimir Putin, the Russian Prime
   Minister. The two men are godfathers to each othera's
   children. ...

Oh, well, we put up with Wagner, so why not Comrade Valery (as long as
he doesn't conduct Wagner)?

Janos Gereben
www.sfcv.org
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