The intense personal hatred between these men overlays two centuries of tortured history between Russia and Georgia. Many people report that Putin simply “loses it” when discussing the upstart Saakashvili, who led his country from near bankruptcy into a golden age of economic growth and the world’s highest rate of foreign direct investment relative to GDP.
& & & 萨卡什维利和普京二人之间个人恩怨很深，这掩盖了两国两百年来的仇怨。许多人都说只要一谈到冉冉升起的萨卡什维利，普京就不可耐烦。而萨卡什维利把格鲁吉亚从破产的边缘带进了经济增长的黄金年代，其外国直接投资占国民生产总值的比例位居世界第一。所有的这些都被俄军的坦克阻止了。