The main fighter against the church is the government, which first collects bribes from the clergy, then blackmails them, then publishes it, and with this type of blackmail they pocket a large part of the clergy, "Girchi" deputy Iago Khvichia said, thus responding to the statement of the chairman of the parliament that the opposition is fighting against the church.

According to Khvichia, the government's reaction to the story of Stalin and Matrona was "little" and he turned this topic again.

"In my opinion, this whole story about Stalin and Matrona was invented by the authorities, and when they saw that there was no proper reaction and they had little reaction, they turned it around again and became Matrona's scourge. They make the whole country nervous and threaten their own citizens with repression for not violating the sanctity of Matrona and Stalin. How can you see the problem of the believers here, apart from the problem of the government. I think that no one would have remembered this story, we would not have known anything about it, if the government had not planned this campaign about Stalin and Matrona. I don't see a political struggle against the church, but the main fighter is the government, which first collects money from the clergy, then blackmails them, then publishes it, and with this type of blackmail, a large part of the clergy is pocketed. What should be more pressure on the church than that?! "If someone had smeared something on the icon of Matrona, there would be much less struggle, and I don't rule out that this would have been agreed with the government," Khvichia said.

Khvichia also responded to the visit of members of "Georgian Dream" to China and noted that it is not excluded that they went to share the experience of the Chinese Communist Party, because "both communists and "Kots" consider the party as the highest governing body".

"The Chinese Communist Party is also managed by the General Secretary, as you know, and they may want to learn some new knowledge from the management of the Chinese Communist Party, because both the Communists and the Kots consider the Party as the highest governing body, and the highest governing official is the Honorary Chairman of the Party, who even appoints the Prime Minister. In other normal countries, the party chairman has his seat and the main person of the country is the prime minister. Since we follow different practices, I do not rule out the delegation of "Georgian Dream" going to take the Chinese example," Khvichia said.