The Ossetians sided with the Bolsheviks then, and they are still on their side today.
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.