99 years since Soviet occupation of Georgia

Today Georgia commemorates the victims of Soviet occupation.Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge. 

Agenda.ge, 25 Feb 2020 - 11:08, Tbilisi,Georgia

Ninety-nine 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.

Watch short documentary "Soviet Russian Invasion in Democratic Republic of Georgia "by Rezo Chigogidze.

The Day of Soviet Occupation was first officially marked in Georgia in 2010.

Parliament unanimously passed the resolution regarding the day, instructing the government to organise various memorial events each year on 25 February to commemorate the victims of the political repression of the communist occupying regime.