Flags at half-staff around Georgia to mark 1921 Soviet occupation of Georgia
The Day of the Soviet Occupation was first marked in 2010. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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The Georgian national flag is flying at half-staff at government buildings around the country today in remembrance of thousands of ordinary citizens and soldiers who died in the battle against Soviet forces 98 years ago.
On this day in 1921, Georgia lost its independence after the Bolshevik Red Army took over Tbilisi.
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Georgian Prime Minister honored the memory of Georgian fallen heroes. Photo: Prime Minister's press office.
Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze honored the memory of soldiers who lost their lives in the fight.
Our history gives examples that freedom always defeats occupation," Bakhtadze stated.
Bakhtadze and Georgian Parliament Speaker Irakli Kobakhidze laid a wreath at the memorial of the heroes fallen between 17-24 February near Ialghuji, Kojori, and Tabakhmela near the Georgian capital, to defend the state independence.
The Flag of Georgia ???????? in front of the Orbeliani Presidential Palace has been lowered, to commemorate the tragic Soviet Occupation Day, 98 years after the Red Army invasion of our Democratic Republic. pic.twitter.com/p6a43pzyF3
— Presidential Administration of Georgia (@GeorgiaPres) February 25, 2019
Today, we honor the memory of the soldiers, our youth, who laid down their lives to stand up to Soviet occupation. I bow before all Georgian heroes who have sacrificed their lives for our country's freedom and independence,” Bakhtadze said.
He also visited a photo exhibition dedicated to these soldiers in the courtyard of the Tbilisi parliament.
The Day of Soviet Occupation was first officially marked in Georgia by the former government in 2010.
Parliament unanimously passed a resolution instructing the government to organise various memorial events each year on 25 February to commemorate the hundreds of thousands of victims of political repressions of the communist occupying regime.
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One hundred years have passed since the day Georgia lost its three-year independence and was occupied by the Bolshevik Red Army.The Georgian national flag is flying at half-staff at government buildings around the country today in remembrance of the thousands of ordinary citizens and soldiers who died in the battle against Soviet forces in 1921.
An online exhibition of photographs, biographical profiles, maps and multimedia material is detailing fragments from the crucial weeks of Georgia's First Democratic Republic, when the state struggled to defend itself against Red Army's invasion in February 1921.