Posted on 08/10/2008 2:05:10 PM PDT by Alter Kaker
Red Army Effects Junction With Kemal's Troops After Overrunning the Republic.
SOVIET SET UP IN TIFLIS
Capital May Be Used as Base for Invasion of Persia-
Americans Safe So Far.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 10 (Associated Press).-Bolshevist troops appear to have overrun the Republic of Georgia, completing the junction of the forces of the Moscow Government with the Turks. The Georgian Government, which fled from Tiflis before the Soviet advance, is reported to have halted at Kutais, on the railroad between Tiflis and Batum.
Skirmishes which are reported to have occurred between Sochi and Gagri, on the Black Sea, are taken to indicate a general Bolshevist advance on all sides, with Batum as its ultimate object.
The Bolsheviki are organizing a Black Sea fleet. Two Bolshevist auxiliary cruisers are shelling Sochi in support of cavalry columns operating against the Georgians.
A provisional Soviet government has been set up in Tiflis.
(Excerpt) Read more at query.nytimes.com ...
Why did Tbilisi get the works
That’s no one’s business but the Turks
Well, this time the Turks don’t care too much for the Bolsheviks.
In 1921, the Russians moved in after a phony border dispute between Georgians and an ethnic minority (the Armenians), ostensibly in order to assist the Armenians. Western Powers issued strongly worded protests, but did nothing.
Okay, the mention of ‘Constantinople’ and ‘Bolsheviks’ had me scratching my head for a few seconds until I looked at the date.
So here I am watching it happen again.
Thanks.
The Ossetians sided with the Bolsheviks then, and they are still on their side today.
I kept scrolling up and down the comments, totally missing the tiny date of the original article.
They Might Be.... Russians!
SOVIETS CRUSH GEORGIA, JOIN WITH TURKS
New York Times ^ | 2/19/1921 | New York Times
Yeah, I gotcha and it got me. One of those times when the title grabs you and all else goes blank! Tunnel vision sets in, heart races, quick grab beer, hang on...LOL!
Yup!
The Russians have been taking advantage of this fact and have been agitproping them since 1992. Georgia has essentially gone around the problem but it got to the point that they had set up their own little Army, sort of a National Guard for the little county.
I think what happened is that Georgian troops went in to shut them down, and a shooting war broke out, which was exactly what the Russians were waiting for.
1921 repeat.........wash, then rinse out democracy.
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