|
The Georgian Emigrés (1921-1941) David Marshall Lang (excerpt from the book”A
Modern History of |
||
|
After Orjonikidze's death and Makharadze's recantation, there was none of Stalin's old
associates among the Georgian Bolsheviks who could question his omniscience
or bring up the various unsavoury episodes in his
revolutionary past. At the same time, the Georgian Menshevik government in
exile in For some years after the fall of independent Georgia,
until 1933, the Georgian Mensheviks were able to maintain their legation in
Paris; the International Committee for Georgia, the president of which was
Monsieur Jean Martin, director of the Journal de Genève, kept up a
running fight against the admission of the Soviet Union to the League of
Nations, which nevertheless took place in 1934. The importance which Stalin attached to the activities of
the Georgian émigrés was displayed in 1938, when the Soviet embassy in With the rise of Nazi Germany, a number of Georgian exiles
joined the Fascist movement. A Georgian Fascist Front was formed, the nucleus
of which consisted of a nationalist organization called Tetri
Giorgi or White George, after the patron
saint of ___________________________________________________________________________________________________
See also: The Soldiers
of Georgia in Polish Service (1923 - 1939) by Dmitri Shalikashvili Georgian
Legion: Georgians on the Wrong Side of World
War 2 by Andrew Andersen Leuville-sur-Orge : a Little
Georgia 25 Kilometers away Southward from Paris By Eva Csergo The Family of Amilakhvari by Andrew Andersen The Tale of
Two Legions in World War II by Edward L. Bimberg |
|
|