The attacks occurred as if scripted. ” While there have been religious tensions “in many of the former republics of the Soviet Union, including Russia, ” says the Times,“ Georgia is unique in the intensity of the violence toward religious minorities, and in the evidence of official complicity in the attacks. Georgia enshrined freedom of religion in its post - Soviet Constitution. But in the rising violence there have been dozens of mob and arson attacks and beatings. ” Youths Flock to “Fun Church ”