When Ryzhkov returned to Moscow from Abkhazia, Georgia, the situation in Georgia showed no signs of improvement as a result of Ryzhkov's personal visit, but on the contrary the situation became worse there, just a week after Ryzhkov's return to Moscow.
A number of prominent local Georgian politicians came forward and began to take advantage of this wave to stake Georgia's secession from the Soviet Union.
Since Yakovlev and Gorbachev came to power, the political dissidents, anti-Soviets, ultranationalists, and anti-socialists who had been imprisoned during the Brezhnev era have been treated leniently by the government, and they have finally left the mysterious Gulag.
And thanks to the policy of openness, these marginalized figures in Soviet politics were able to openly publish their doctrines in the newspapers.
Perhaps in Gorbachev's view, Stalin was much more harmful than they were.
These marginalized figures saw their years in the Gulag as an honor, a credential to boast of.
And very few of them are as genuinely concerned about the country as Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn.
They have tested the government's bottom line again and again, but found that the government really wants to open up to freedom of speech, so these people are getting more and more emboldened.
And this political crisis in Georgia has given these people a godsend.
At the instigation of some extremists, more than a hundred Georgians began a sit-in in the square of the Abkhaz city administration to protest against the attempts of the Soviet central government to split Abkhazia.
At the same time, in Abkhazia, the majority of the population Georgians began to attack the local Abkhazians, Armenians, as well as the Russians, the main ethnic group of the Soviet Union.
The wave began to move from the media to the streets, and in just one week, the internal political situation in Abkhazia dealt with more than a dozen incidents of mass brawls, in which both Georgians and local Abkhaz minorities were involved.
Although Patiashvili is the first secretary of Georgia, as an airborne cadre, he has to rely on local Georgian cadres to handle many things.
However, the reason for the deterioration of the situation in Georgia is fundamentally the anti-corruption campaign launched here by Patiashvili, and now the problem of corruption has not been well resolved, but has led to social divisions and ethnic hatred.
Patiashvili now neither dared to report to the Central Committee nor had a good way to solve the problem, in this case, Patiashvili was in a dilemma, and the only thing he could do was to turn to his backstage, Ligachev, for help.
Ligachev, who was indeed a traditionalist in the party, almost without thinking blamed Georgia's problems on the denial of the party's leadership by domestic conspirators, and at a meeting of the Politburo he suggested that urgent measures should be taken immediately against Georgia and that troops be sent to maintain order there.
"Comrade Ligachev, we are not Stalin, we cannot solve any problem by force."
Gorbachev now has an extreme dislike for Ligachev, and if it weren't for him, how could Georgia have become what it is now.
"Secretary Gorbachev, it is precisely because we have repudiated Stalin that the foundation of our party's rule has been shaken, and the present situation is absolutely related to certain policies pursued by certain politically naïve comrades in the party," Ligachev retorted to Gorbachev.
"Comrade Ligachev, we are all sitting here very well what the Georgian problem is all about.
If Patiashvili had listened to the voices of the local people and solved the problem as soon as possible, instead of blindly using power to suppress people, how could things in Abkhazia have developed to this point today?"
Yakovlev replied unceremoniously.
"Then do you want us to give up the authority of the Central Committee and the leadership of the party?"
asked Ligachev, angrily slapping the table.
"Enough is enough, how long are you going to argue" Gorbachev was also furious, he picked up the paper and slammed it on the table.
Glared angrily at Ligachev.
The anger in the venue fell to a freezing point, and the whole room fell silent.
It was only after about a quarter of an hour that Gorbachev said to Shevardnadze: "Comrade Shevardnadze, what do you think about the Abkhaz problem" "General Secretary, the problem of Abkhazia is a long-standing historical legacy.
The Abkhazia region was an independent republic in the twenties and joined the Soviet Union, but later under Stalin's policy of ethnic integration, Abkhazia was forcibly annexed to Georgia, which reconfigured the population of many regions that had historically belonged to a single ethnic group, resulting in a situation in which the proportion of Georgians in Abkhazia was more than half.
The Georgians have already regarded Abkhazia as their own land, and during my tenure as the first secretary of Georgia, the Abkhazians never had the idea of joining the Soviet Union independently.
Shevardnadze sat in his seat, looked at Ligachev with a smile, and then said with some smugness.
This time Ligachev is definitely planted, even Gorbachev can't stand him now, what else can he do in the Politburo except to occupy a position "Comrade Shevardnadze, what's the use of saying this now, what we need is a solution to the problem.
You are an old comrade in Georgia, and you are more familiar with the situation there than any of us here have said.
Comrade Shevardnadze, it's time for the party to stand up, and you have to carry this burden," Gorbachev said earnestly.
"Okay General Secretary, I will arrange the schedule as soon as possible, I think I have to go to Abkhazia myself and listen to the voices of people of all factions.
But if I go to Georgia so rashly, will Comrade Patiashvili have any opinion on me?"
Shevardnadze looked at Gorbachev longingly, now that his vanity had been greatly satisfied, today's Politburo meeting was the happiest he had in his days.
Now, when the country is in crisis, Shevardnadze has courageously stepped forward to turn the tide, what a glorious thing.
It would have been better if Gorbachev had transferred Patiashvili again.
"Comrade Patiashviry's question," said Gorbachev, there was a pause here, and after thinking for a long time, he said.
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