Word: georgians
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...Farmers live in an old Georgian house, rich in atmosphere but unsteadied by the effects of bombs that landed nearby during the war. One night a London bobby called at the front door with an expression of injured dignity. It seems that a piece of the roof had fallen, missing his head by a scant few feet. Said he: "Madam, your house is a menace...
...wall, but instead of getting better, the mess got worse. Tiflis newspapers exposed such "grave economic crimes" as "embezzlement of socialist property," "windows and doors that have fallen to pieces," "bedbugs breeding in our hotels." Then Pravda joined in with a story of "connivance" and "protectionism" in the Georgian party cadres; it charged last June that Georgia's Communist leaders did not know the names of the Marx and Lenin classics, never read the papers, and could not name a single book by a Soviet author...
...Stalin's Manner. All this looked suspiciously like a groundswell of Georgian nationalism, protesting Great Russian oppression. And as usual in such cases, the punishment was purge-this time "in Stalin's manner," as Radio Tiflis neatly put it. Nearly every ranking Communist in the Georgian Soviet lost his job for fostering "bourgeois nationalism," including three top officials-Baramiya, Zodelava and Rapava. The Politburocrat responsible for Georgian affairs was obviously in trouble. He was Lavrenty Beria, and in proof of his displeasure, Stalin forced the police chief personally to lead the purge of the very Georgian leaders whom...
...began last week with a startling announcement that last year's Georgian purge, like that of the Kremlin doctors, had been "a crude violation of Soviet...
...victims (Beria's protegés) were "innocent workers" falsely accused by "adventurists" who "cooked up repulsive materials ... to do harm to the Communist Party." The chief adventurist was one I. A. Rukhadze, former Minister of [Georgian] State Security, and, according to Radio Tiflis, "an enemy of the people . . . with inimical careerist interests." "By all kinds of intrigues," the announcement went on, Rukhadze "tried to arouse a feeling of national enmity" between Georgians and Great Russians. He was aided by A. I. Mgeladze, boss of the Georgian Communist Party, and Premier Z. Ketskhoveli-the men whom Stalin promoted only...