On March 18-th, 1979 when I was 19, and was the third-year-student of Tbilisi Medical Institute, my friends and I decided to clear an old monastery complex "David Gareji". This complex is situated in a desert in the region of Sagarejo approximately at the distance of 60 kilometer from the village called Kakabeti, where my friend's parents lived. We were four of us: Aleko, Shalva, Gia and I. All of us were the third year students of Med. Institute.
On the morning we arrived to Kakabeti from Tbilisi, took Aleko's car and drove to "David Gareji." It took us about two hours to get there. Aleko had been driving the car all along. The truck with the soldiers arrived there at the same time.
On arrival we began to see the sights of the complex. In a little while Gia and I got tired and we asked Aleko to give us the key of the car so as to have a rest in it. (On the way to monastery I had hidden there 4 cigarettes from the packet: each one for each of us).
Aleko gave me the keys in order to have a rest (he didn't permit us to drive the car).
Gia and I had been talking to each other for several minutes, smoking our deal of cigarettes. Then I turned the engine on. We decided to drive some distance and then drive back again. Access road to the monastery is an impasse.
There's a crossroad at the distance of 5-7 kilometer from the monastery. I was first. We drove about 5-6 kilometers short of the crossroad. Gia got off the car, I turned it, took another seat to the right and Gia set behind the steering-wheel. We drove towards the monastery. At the distance of about 1,5 kilometers up to it the car turned over.
The first moment which I remembered was that the car was lying on its side. I got out crawling from below through the space between the car and the ground. First I put out the fire (some hose was burning), then I called Gia. He didn't reply. I turned round and saw him lying on the ground head-on to the car. His thigh-bone was broken, the face covered with blood, and the wrist broken too. After 5-10 minutes the truck approached from the monastery. I asked the soldiers for help and we laid Gia into the body of the truck and drove to Rustavi City Hospital. Some soldiers went towards the monastery to inform my other friends about the accident.
Nobody saw the episode from the moment Aleko gave me a key until the accident happened. That is to say that nobody was the witness of happening.
At Rustavi city hospital the doctor on duty couldn't help the accident victim. Somebody gave me money; I took a taxi, drove to Tbilisi, found there my teacher surgeon professor Gogi Bochorishvili and by his own car we both drove to Rustavi City Hospital, but Gia had already been dead for about 15-20 minutes.
After that they brought an action against me. The father of the dead pressed for to convict me. First an office of public prosecutor of Sagarejo (investigator Zukakishvili) investigated the case. Then it was handed over to the department of home affairs of Tbilisi (investigator Bezhashvili). The latter made an examination and concluded that the car in the moment of accident was driven by Gia.
The case was taken away from Bezhashvili and handed over to investigator Kuloshvili in the same department. Kuloshvili summoned experts from Tbilisi and also from Moscow (Shlepov). They concluded that the car in the moment of accident was steered by Gia. The experts found a trace of covers of break pedals on the sole of Gia's shoes. The trace coincided with the pattern of covers.
Again the case was taken away from Kuloshvili and handed over to Donadze in the Ministry of internal affairs of
Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic (GSSR). The latter summoned experts from Ukraine (Panasenko, Philipchuk, Zhitomirski). They concluded as if in the moment of the accident the car were driving by me. I was arrested according to this conclusion and imprisoned before trial on October 17-th, 1980 (1,5 years later of the accident). Decision of a commission of experts couldn't be the reason of imprisonment according to criminal code of the USSR. Then I was the fifth year student of the Medical Institute.
I became free on April 10-th, 1981. Investigation lasted. I wasn't left out of the Komsomol yet, because my fellow students paid a membership fee instead of me. I was left out of Institute on April 10-th, 1981.
I began working in the building company as a general worker 07. 20. 1981 (worked there till 09.13.1982).
The investigation lasted. The investigator Donadze sent the affair to the committee of investigation to Moscow. A conclusion arrived from there. It was told in it as if I had been sitting behind the steering-wheel in the moment of the accident. Different scheme of turnover of the car was produced. (Kristi, Tishin, Gorskaia, Michailov).
On the February in 1982 an accusation was brought against me and the matter was brought to law.
The first hearing took place in the Kiirov's district superior court. The judge Sherveshidze returned the affair again to the Ministry of internal affairs because of incorrect investigation, but court of cassation cancelled the ruling and the matter was brought to law again, on this occasion to the Orjonikidze district superior court (the judge Tateladze).
On the September 16-th, 1982 I began working as a medical assistant at the Centre of first aid of Tbilisi. I was restored in the Medical Institute as a student.
Orjonikidze district superior court found me guilty and sentenced me to 7 years imprisonment.
On December 26-th, my sister died after delivery.
I appealed against a court decision. City court of Tbilisi (January 7, 1983) vacated the sentence and handed over the affair to City Superior court of Tbilisi. The judge T.Rusadze accused me and sentenced me to 5 years imprisonment (May 12-th, 1983). I was left out of the Komsomol and accordingly of the Institute. I continued working at the first aid station. (Till 07.04.1984)
I appealed against a court decision again and the affair was sent to the court of appeal of the supreme court of GSSR.
The panel of judges (Jibladze, Bebia, Kipiani) vacated the sentence (09.22.1983) and the affair was sent to the supreme court of GSSR (T. Gersamia). He found me guilty and sentenced me to 7 years imprisonment.
I decided not to submit to the verdict and escaped to Western Georgia to my native region. At that time I didn't know what to do next.
The chairman of the Supreme Court Karanadze interrupted the execution of the sentence for 6 months (01.20.1984) I came back home and continued to work at the first aid station.
The affair was taken up on the presidium of the Supreme Court. The verdict was ratified and the affair was sent to Moscow Supreme Court (the section of Georgia). All-union search was announced.
As I wasn’t sitting behind the steering-wheel in the moment of accident (so I didn’t consider myself guilty for the accident), and there was no appeal from a verdict of the Supreme Court, so I decided not to submit to the verdict and had to escape from home. After announcing of All-union search, my photographs were hung up at police stations, so in June, 1984 I escaped to Sukhumi, (Abkhazian Autonomous Republic - part of GSSR) where my uncle gave a refuge to me. I hid there for over two years, and worked as a general worker under my brother in low’s friend’s name (he allowed to use his passport for it)…
So, let’s begin from the period of my being in Abkhazia:
To say briefly I had problems of All-Soviet-Union-scale and
badly needed to change an environment around me. All the time up to the told moment I wandered why officials always tried to convict me, and finally got to the truth: the innocent person wasn’t innocent for Soviet system, as the latter itself was the system against innocents, so everything was appropriate. I began to consider how to change this system. At first it seemed to me an unfeasible idea, because I believed that 1.to destroy any political system one must destroy it in the centre, where all centralized organizations (of power, of finance) are concentrated, but no one would admit me there, and 2.to destroy any political system one must have the influence of the same scale on it, as the system itself, but against the system! After not submitting to the verdict of GSSR and announcing of all-union search my case took such a character, but the situation remained unchangeable and everything seemed very vague to me again. One episode from bible crossed my mind several times: people before the church ask Jesus, must they submit or not the tribute to Caesar. Jesus makes them to show dinar and asks whose face is pictured on it. When people reply - “Caesar’s”, Jesus says: “pay to Caesar what belongs to him and pay to God what belongs to God”. The reply seemed to me illogical, because to the question “to give or not to give?” the answer must be accordingly - “give or don’t give!”, but for some reason Jesus answers indirect way. On the other hand I knew that Jesus’ answer couldn’t have been illogical: The gold belongs to the whole mankind, but if the face of Caesar is pictured on it then from this moment it belongs to him (to Caesar), and if you have in your possession (let’s say - in your pockets) the gold with the image of Caesar, you’re under his command and accordingly must pay a tribute to him, but if you wouldn’t like to be under his command, then you must give back the gold with the image on it to his owner. 
Portrait of Julius Caesar on Silver Denarius
When I reached such (might a very simple) conclusion, I searched for my pockets and found one hundred soviet rubles there (ten chervonetses); I observed the monetary units (one of them) carefully:
“Chervonets” - 10 Rubles - monetary hybrid of USSR
Lenin’s image was pictured on it and inscription - “STATE BANK OF USSR” in Russian language and also inscription “ten rubles” in 15 languages of 15 republics - consisting parts of USSR, so Soviet Ruble was monetary unit (monetary hybrid) of 15 countries-integration and these countries made a Socialist kind of unity based on Lenin’s political system serving as a ground.
Logically I owned 100 Soviet Rubles but
Practically I was under the command of this system by one hundred of such monetary units. But the most interesting was the fact that one of consisting parts of this monetary hybrid was Georgian - native and needed to me.
The first thing I did spontaneously was that I burnt down half amount of money - five banknotes in order to lessen the influence of Soviet system on me personally.
This was first rough and at the same time wrong experiment concerning the monetary units, since (the truth, after burning down of banknotes the influence of Soviet system on me decreased by half, but at the same time lessened Georgian part of monetary hybrid), and decreasing of common quantity of monetary banknotes anyway resulted in increasing of rate of exchange (the truth - to a least degree).
And a new task arouse before me: to separate off from common monetary hybrid of USSR the Georgian part of it.
This was identical to the task of destroying of the system but anyway far more simpler, because there wasn’t need to destroy the centralized power in the capital of USSR, but was enough to separate off one part from common monetary unit and everything else would develop itself accordingly, and separating off any part (In our particular case - Georgian) would mean the collapse of the whole system.
(Let’s omit next parts and preserve it for a future, as this task is done now and I'd say I don't know who by…)
Look at the nice picture of present Georgian monetary unit:
10 Laries - (Lari - monetary unit of Georgian Republic)
Let’s proceed from the moment of my being in Abkhazia:
I joined the staff in "Abchazgas" as a general worker under my brother in law’s friend’s name (he allowed to use his passport for it). I worked there for over a year. At that time my parents continued to appeal. The affair was in the supreme court of USSR (1985).
When my name appeared on the newspapers (1986), my uncle rejected to cover me since it became dangerous for his family. My father arrived and we began to visit our relatives to cover me, but all of them except my aunt rejected to do so. We decided to go back home. At that time the prime secretary of Georgia was Jumber Patiashvili. My mother somehow managed to meet him at the public meeting and told him everything. He became surprised and gave an audience to her. My mother told everything in detail at the audience. Patiashvili connected with general public prosecutor of GSSR Razmadze and ordered to take a sound decision as soon as possible, and took the affair under his personal control. Razmadze connected with the General Office of Public Prosecutor of USSR. Deputy of the General Public Prosecutor of USSR-Soroca made a protest against the verdict and sent the affair to the Plenum of the supreme court of Georgia. The latter didn't discharge me, but made a change, and gave me a suspended sentence (December 17, 1987).
I was restored in the Institute. I graduated from it in 1989. I worked as a physician cardiologist in the department of cardiology at Tbilisi City hospital from 1989 till 1990, then at a reanimation department of Georgian Republican hospital as a physician-reanimatologist (from 1990 till 1992). I retired from it by my personal statement.
I returned there on the February 1994 as a physician of China medicine, but for the lack of financing the consulting room couldn't work and I was dismissed on November 1996.
I was unemployed till 09. 27. 1998, when generous men helped me to start working as a security guard…