My sincere wish for the pseudo-liberal “nationalists” and their favourite writer is to stop attributing Russian influences to everything Georgian and abandon pseudo-liberalism, Irakli Kobakhidze, chair of the ruling Georgian Dream party, wrote on the Facebook page.

Kobakhidze also extended Christmas greetings to Georgians.

“The writer favoured by the pseudo-liberal “nationalists” referred to the Georgian Christmas, celebrated on January 7 in the civil calendar and December 25 in the Julian calendar, as “Russian Christmas”. I would have ignored this individual if he weren’t a typical representation of a Georgian pseudo-liberal. To address the pseudo-educated writer and his admirers, I’d like to emphasize that the Christian world has observed Christmas based on the Julian calendar since 325, a time when Russia didn’t exist. Even when the Catholic Pope introduced a different calendar at the end of the 16th century, the Orthodox Church, including the Georgian Church, continued using the Julian calendar. At that point, the Russian Orthodox Church had not yet had autocephaly, unlike the Georgian Church. History unequivocally answers whether Orthodox Christmas is Georgian or Russian.

The example of these pseudo-liberals confirms that the little education of a person with narrow thinking is a more risky fact than the lack of education in an unintelligent person, as demonstrated by Dunning and Kruger’s scientific research. My sincere wish for the pseudo-liberal “nationalists” and their favourite writer is to stop attributing Russian influences to everything Georgian, to abandon pseudo-liberalism and embrace the truth,” Kobakhidze wrote.