The parliamentary elections in Georgia are compared by many analysts to the wars in Vietnam and Afghanistan, which decimated the local population, although in reality they were a test of strength between russian Russia and the United States, the main players in a planet torn apart by the Iron Curtain. Now, too, although without guns, and only with the aid of ballot boxes, a conflict was fought between the planet of Western democracy and Moscow, which was rebuilding the russian empire. The conflict (though not the war) was won indisputably by Russia, whose quiet representative, the Georgian Dream party, received – not necessarily honestly – over 54 percent of the voters' support.