Crimean Leader claims control of military, police

[Igel]

16. So soon after 2/25.

Which in Georgia is "Soviet Occupation Day." On that day in 1921 the Red Army entered Georgia--not Soviet at the time--and installed a Bolshevik government.

The "leaders" had proclaimed themselves the true government of Georgia and asked help from the fraternal revolutionary, Bolshevik government in Moscow. True to form, the anti-imperialist Lenin sent in the Red Army (on 2/25) to establish the "revolutionary government". It was revolutionary, so it obviously had popular support. This eventually led to Georgia's inclusion in the anti-imperialist Soviet empire. Even if it did take a few years and an 'uprising' against the 'popular' government that needed the Red Army to go in to restore order.

Putin did, of course, think that the greatest catastrophe of the 20th century was the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

And, of course, this change in government led by a small number of men in Tbilisi and supported by the mostly Russian Red Army was a "revolution," and in no way a "coup." While those who would probably agree with that characterization regard what happened in Kiev as a coup.