The day after the meeting, Shevardnadze boarded a special plane to Georgia to go where to deal with the Abkhaz issue.
Before leaving, Shevardnadze had a long talk with Gorbachev, and Gorbachev promised that if the incident could be resolved perfectly, then Gorbachev would side with Shevardnadze on the Georgian issue and agree to his recommendation for the next Georgian first secretary.
After receiving Gorbachev's assurance, Shevardnadze was naturally very happy.
If Patiashvili can be successfully removed from the post of first secretary of Georgia, then the things he and his people have done in Georgia for so many years will never be investigated again, and the Georgian investigative bureaucracy, represented by Shevardnadze, will be safe.
This is exactly what Shevardnadze was hoping for.
As a member of the Politburo, Shevardnadze's treatment is naturally not comparable to that of ordinary cadres.
His plane was almost identical to Gorbachev's, and the interior had been renovated and remodeled to Shevardnadze's liking.
On weekdays, Shevardnadze, as foreign minister, often travels abroad on this special plane.
There was an endless stream of wine and food on the plane, and at this moment, Shevardnadze was sipping fine wine and top-notch caviar for the Kremlin, looking out the window at the rolling clouds and thinking about how to deal with the Abkhaz problem.
Let Abkhazia become independent, the Georgians will not do it, let Abkhazia remain in Georgia, and the Abkhazians will not do it.
This is really a dilemma, there is always the interests of one party to suffer.
Don't look at Georgia as a minority in the USSR, but in Abkhazia, Russians, Abkhazians, Armenians are minorities.
How did the Russians look down on those minorities and think that they were a drag on the Soviet Union.
There are similar ideas in the hearts of Georgians.
And these ideas have given some ultra-nationalists in Georgia room to play.
Although Stalin was Georgian.
Georgia had paid the price of blood for defending Stalin's honor, but on the national question, the Georgians also opposed Stalin's national policy, believing that Stalin's policy of forced migration and migration for the sake of national integration was a stain on the purity of Georgian blood.
This is almost the same as the Great Russianism that prevailed in the Soviet Union.
Shevardnadze drank glass after glass on the plane, until finally he got drunk and fell in his seat without thinking of a solution.
When the Georgian party and government leaders were waiting at the airport for the arrival of Shevardnadze's plane, they were told that Minister Shevardnadze was feeling a little tired and wanted to rest before meeting with everyone.
Patiashvili left the airport expressionlessly, and the Georgian cadres who opposed Patiashvili were at a loss, not understanding what Minister Shevardnadze was doing.
The next morning, Shevardnadze's secretary named the heads of several important Georgian departments to a meeting at Shevardnadze's accommodation.
The meeting was not made public.
The main reason is that Shevardnadze wants to discuss with his old subordinates how to use this turmoil to maximize everyone's political interests.
"Old secretary, is Patiashvili going to be transferred away by the Central Committee, and when will this nasty guy be transferred?"
the officials asked eagerly after seeing Shevardnadze.
"This matter is up to Secretary Gorbachev, and it seems that Patiashvili will not leave Georgia yet.
Don't keep an eye on him, what else can he do now, let's talk about the current situation, and see how we can solve the Abkhaz problem.
Shevardnadze said meaningfully.
"Old secretary, Abkhazia, of course, is our Georgian, what point do we Georgians have to be sorry for, how can the Abkhaz Central Committee agree to Abkhazia's independence from Georgia and join Russia alone, if the Central Committee really treats us like this, then we Georgians are not easy to bully," some of the officials present said angrily.
Most of the officials present were Georgians, and this statement naturally met with the heartfelt approval of the majority.
However, Shevardnadze went to Tbilisi to deal with the Abkhaz issue on behalf of the Central Committee, and it was inconvenient for her to express her position on such remarks.
Shevardnadze wanted a solution to the problem, not to listen to these people complain.
So Shevardnadze cleared his throat, and then said to his old subordinates: "On the Abkhaz issue, you should not only look at the problem from the perspective of Georgia, we are a unified country, and the Abkhaz issue should follow the instructions of the central government."
We discussed together for most of the day, but we never found a solution to the problem.
Finally, an official spoke of the people who are currently demonstrating in Abkhazia, most of whom have the shadow of Georgian ultra-nationalist groups standing behind them, such as the "Ilyacavchawadze Association", "St.
Ilya Truth", "Georgian National Justice Union", etc., in addition to the "Popular Front" formed by some cultural activists who have long held anti-Soviet positions.
The political views of these organizations are different, but they all have a few things in common: one is that they have not been established for a long time, and they are generally established at the end of last year, when these organizations suddenly sprung up like mushrooms after a rain and began to become more and more active in Georgia.
The second is that most of the leaders of these organizations took a stand against Soviet rule, because of the liberal political environment created by Yakovlev's open policy, these people were able to openly publish articles that disseminated their ideas.
This allowed them to begin to grow in influence, and now in Georgia these people are a force to be reckoned with.
"Old secretary, do you want to get in touch with these opposition parties, they have a completely different opinion of you than the other leaders of Georgia, they all agree with your achievements in Georgia, and if you come forward in person, maybe things will turn around," someone suggested to Shevardnadze.
Shevardnadze thought for a long time, and finally made up his mind and said: "Well, I agree to meet, but I don't want to make public the content of the conversation with them, the last time Secretary Ryzhkov spoke in Abkhazia, he was contacted by the media indiscriminately, and as a result, things went in a worse direction."
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