The Georgian parliament has passed a decree, introducing a commemoration of the Day of Soviet Occupation. The government of Georgia earlier proposed the commemoration of this day, Georgia Online reports.
The day will be celebrated on February 25th – the day Soviet forces entered Tbilisi (February 25th, 1921), which led to Georgia joining the USSR. State flags will be hung on administrative buildings and a minute of silence will be introduced.
The government also offered a commemoration of the Day of Victims of Totalitarianism on August 23rd (the day of the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact in 1939). The initiative was approved.
Tbilisi opened a museum of Soviet occupation in Tbilisi in 2006, dedicated to Georgia being part of the USSR, victims of repressions and anti-Soviet movements in Georgia.
Gori (the ‘minor homeland’ of Joseph Stalin) will have a monument to the victims of Stalin’s repressions and Russian occupation. A monument will be erected in the central square, where a monument to Stalin used to stand (it was moved to the territory of the Museum of Stalin, nearby, in late June this year).
