General Shalikashvili's father was a "Georgian army officer". but fighting on the side of the Nazis. In a branch of the Waffen SS. One can't blame a Georgian of that era too much for that, at first at least. The Nazies looked good compared to Stalin. The General's grandfather had been a Czarist officer, so you might imagine that his family might not have fared well under the Bolishevik regime. I imagine all he cared about was killing Russians. (Even though Stalin was a Geogian as well. (real name Dzhugashavili).