🧵1/6 - 🇬🇪Little thread about Salome Zurabishvili's rich family past.
Was her grandfather Mikhail Kedia was a Nazi criminal and collaborator? 🤔
It's not even close 🥱
After all, the Nazi criminal and collaborator Mikhail Kedia is her uncle, not her grandfather.
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Salome's grandfather was Meki (Mekhisedek) Kedia, until 1921 he served as the head of the secret police of Georgia and fought against the USSR. This is written in the biography of Zurabishvili herself.
Unfortunately, it is not written there that Meka also had a son,
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Mikhail Kedia, who after the start of World War II began collaborating with the Nazis and personally with Richard Heydrich, participated in Operation Zeppelin and even received a German passport in Berlin on March 15, 1943. Where is it written then? In the CIA documents,
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which were posted in open access directly on the CIA website.
These documents were declassified and released under the Nazi War Crimes Disclore Act, passed in 1998.
In these documents, Salome's uncle is directly listed as a Gestapo official.
Of course, Salome is not
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responsible for her uncle's Nazi past. But from her actual biography, it is obvious that she literally grew up in an atmosphere of hatred towards the USSR. Therefore, there is nothing unexpected in her modern views. The apple does not fall far from the tree, as they say.
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