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...midnight approached, the crowd keeping vigil on the front steps of the government building in Tbilisi, capital of the Georgian Republic, suddenly burst into song. The anthem was an ancient call to battle, glorifying freedom as "the sweetest of words." As its haunting harmonies echoed down nearby Rustaveli Prospect, tens of thousands of Georgians thrust clenched fists into the air. One year ago to the day, on April 9, 1989, Soviet troops had broken up a peaceful demonstration on the very same spot with tanks, shovels and poison gas, killing 20 people. Last week residents gathered in the streets again...
...hard for Moscow to miss. A sign in Russian on a pillar of the government offices read, OCCUPIERS, GO HOME! Another placard urged SOLIDARITY WITH THE LITHUANIAN PEOPLE. Representatives from the restive Baltic republics were on hand to wave their national banners alongside the flag of the short-lived Georgian Republic...
...certain to play a pivotal role in Georgia's future is Zviad Gamsakhurdia, chairman of the Georgian Helsinki Union and a leader of the National Forum. The son of one of the republic's best-loved writers and a distinguished translator and literary scholar in his own right, Gamsakhurdia is viewed by many of his countrymen as something of a Georgian Vaclav Havel. Twice imprisoned for his nationalist views, Gamsakhurdia believes full sovereignty can be achieved only through nonviolent opposition to Soviet rule. As he explains, "It is senseless to declare independence when the Soviet army and administration are still...
Because of its souring relations with the outlying republics, Moscow is wary of intervening. Given the resentments caused by the army's brutal suppression of a peaceful demonstration in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi last April, the central government does not dare ask the agitated Georgians to return Turkish villages to the Meskhetians. Moscow has ordered up a plan for repatriating the Crimean Tatars and Volga Germans, but nothing has been done...
...charivari of Georgian England from a satirist's hand...