About the book: year / Before us is the “white book” of ethnic cleansing in regarding Ossetians. Facts, evidence. The conflict has been smoldering for a long time. In 1830, the Russian government gave an unequivocal verdict: Georgians do not have any rights to South Ossetia. Stalin, in his favorite manner of planting time bombs on all borders between neighboring peoples, sacrificed the Ossetians in favor of the Georgian SSR. In 1991, events in the south were in the shadows - Moscow was busy with the battle between Gorbachev and Yeltsin. No one interfered with Zviad Gamsakhurdia. According to the 1989 USSR census, 164 thousand Ossetians lived in Georgia. By 2002, there were 38 thousand Ossetians left in Georgia. In 2008, Ossetians had to flee from South Ossetia itself. 13 years of attempts to achieve peace in the region with the help of peacekeepers seemed more than sufficient to Mikheil Saakashvili. Georgia declared war on South Ossetia.