BATUMI, GEORGIA: Valerian, 83, was sitting with a friend along the Batumi shore dressed in camouflage coat and hat.
He said he grew up in Batumi and recalled how when his dad went off to serve in WWII, he would fish by himself along the shore before school started.
Valerian said he was a career officer in the Soviet Army, having served in Germany and Armenia among other places.
Like other people of pension age that I met, Valerian was disappointed with the bad relations between Russia and Georgia, saying that neighbors ”have to find a common language.”
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- Valerian said that Georgia and Russia have to find a common language.
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- Valerian was a career Soviet officer.
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- Valerian recalled fishing as a school boy some 75 years ago near the spot he was sitting at.
