Homeland, language and faith - these are the three main pillars that form the national identity of Georgia since the 4th century, when Georgia declared Christianity as the state religion. Such a statement made today the Prime Minister of Georgia, while delivering a speech at the conference of conservative political action in Hungary.

“Historically, our small but freedom-loving and proud country had to exist at the crossroads of empires. For centuries, Georgians fought and sacrificed themselves to protect their homeland, their estate.

For centuries, Georgians faithfully protected their own language. Finally, in 1978, our parents’ generation stood firmly to protect the Georgian language, when the Soviet government decided to cancel the status of the Georgian language as a state language. The principles of the people paid off and the Soviet government had to retreat.

For centuries, we Georgians had to fight to protect our faith, Christianity. Our history has taught us that any occupation of a country is temporary if the conqueror fails to destroy the identity of the people.

Therefore, all conquerors aimed to attack the faith of the Georgian people as their first task. Finally, this was done by the Soviet Bolsheviks, who destroyed churches and forbade believers to pray. However, Georgia won all battles fought for faith and protected and preserved Christianity.

Today’s challenges of our country are similar to those that Georgia faced for centuries. The most interesting thing is that these challenges have become the challenges of the whole world today, which pose risks to both the smallest and the largest countries and nations.

The so-called Liberals are putting today at risk the identity of countries and nations around the world. Europe and the US face such risks the most, where the so-called “Liberal ideology” has the most widespread roots”, - said Irakli Kobakhidze.