“Meanwhile in South Ossetia trouble stirred up from across the Russian border in North Ossetia led to a large-scale rising against the Georgians. The latter, who had never liked the Ossetians, repressed it ruthlessly. Thousands of Ossetians were killed and many thousands more sought refuge across the Soviet border, with the result that the whole of this already sensitive and strategically important frontier area became a potential powder-keg.”
Also:
“But this time Soviet troops were already massing on the Georgian frontier for a full-scale invasion. A detailed plan of attack had been drawn up a couple of months earlier by A. I. Gekker, the Commander of the Eleventh Red Army. It was put into execution during the second week of February 1921. On 11 February disorders broke out simultaneously in the Lori district ……etc.”
Does this all sound familiar? It happened in 1920-1921 according to Fitzroy Maclean in his book, “To Caucasus, The End of all the Earth.Nothing has changed in the Caucasus for over two thousand years; anyone who thinks it will change now because of fancy speeches is arrogant beyond belief.— Posted by Edward Foss
