Mrs. President compared me and Stalin in Gori and advised the people of my native Gori to forget both of us, writes Mikheil Saakashvili on his Facebook page.

“Mrs. President [Salome Zourabichvili] compared me and Stalin in Gori and advised the people of my native Gori (my grandfather Misha Saakashvili, the founder and first rector of Tbilisi Medical Institute was from Gori) to forget both of them.

Mrs. Salome, there is one person that cannot forget Stalin and me - his name is Vladimir Putin. But he is crazy about Stalin and erects monuments all over Russia, while he hates me, constantly accusing me of all kinds of sins in his various speeches.

I, of course, would be happy with the Georgian people if you were firmly on the right side of history”, - writes Mikheil Saakashvili.