US Embassy: ‘99 years since Soviet occupation, we stand with Georgia in support of hard-fought sovereignty’
The US Embassy to Georgia commemorated the victims of Soviet occupation in Georgia. Photo: Georgian Museum of Photography.
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The US Embassy in Tbilisi says that 99 years after the Soviet occupation of Georgia began, the US stands with Georgia in support of its hard-fought sovereignty, citing famous Georgia writer Mikheil Javakhishvili and his description of the occupation.
On February 25th I felt how a piercing sword came into my body, going deeper and deeper since then… I am lurid... my body is shivering constantly. Now I have the tip of the sword propped at my heart and I feel if I move a bit it will go through it and will kill me without giving time to groan,” the US Embassy wrote citing Javakhishvili, adding that ‘we will never forget his words’.
Today 99 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.
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.
The bodies of over 150 people repressed in 1937-1938 during Stalin’s reign, otherwise known as the Great Terror, have been identified in Georgia’s seaside resort of Batumi.
Names of the residents of the Georgian capital of Tbilisi who were killed or exiled during the 1937-38 Soviet repressions were read out loud in Tbilisi today. The victims of the Soviet regime were remembered in relation to the date (July 30, 1937) when the Soviet Union leadership issued decree N00447 on the detention and punishment of so-called “kulaks, criminals and anti-Soviet elements.”
A poignant display opening today in Tbilisi will tell the personal stories of citizens exiled and persecuted during the brutal political repressions of the Soviet regime in Georgia.
US diplomats in Georgia have presented a collective reading of a poem by Georgian author Kolau Nadiradze which is dedicated to Georgia’s Soviet occupation on this day, one hundred years ago.