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In terms of ideology, a secret letter, dated 1900, by Military governor
of Kutaisi province, Major General Gershelman is also interesting,:
"by the order №2771, March 17, 1898, of the Georgian-Imeretian
synodal office teaching Georgian language is absolutely prohibited at
schools in Apkhazeti and Samurzakano…" by this document Russians
considered the Samurzakano (Gali!) Megrels as representatives of a different
nation who had a different "language" and contrasted them with
the rest of the Georgians.
In 1918-20, during those three years of the restored independence
of Georgia the Empire’s pressure on the linguistic-ethnic identity of
Georgians naturally decreased and the rights of Georgian language restored.
At the same time, Georgian government showed traditional Georgian
tolerance to the linguistic rights of minorities, which meant that the
citizens of other nationalities could address the supreme legislative body
in their own languages, and the delegate elected to the Georgian parliament
in 1918-1921 could make a speech in his own language if it was
understood by at least one member of the presidium. The status of Apkhazeti
– incorporated into Georgia – has been defined as autonomous,
etc. Namely, chapter 14 of the "Constitution of Georgia", adopted by the
founding assembly of Georgian Democratic Republic on February 21,
1921, is dedicated to the rights of national minorities; for instance, in
accordance with Article 137, a delegate of other ethnic origin who had
no knowledge of the Georgian language could make a speech in his own
native tongue.
Russian imperial politics continued after the Bolshevik annexation
of Georgia in 1921.
The empire of Lenin's period and later, of Stalin, Khrushchev,
Brezhnev and Gorbachev attempted not only to fragment
Georgia’s territory but also to estrange certain groups of Georgians
from their Kartvelian history, culture and a unified linguistic
identity. They were well aware of the fact that division of a nation’s
creator – a native language into several "language systems"
by means of linguistic "science" diversions is the highest priority
while disintegrating a nation. It is significant that the current Russian
Empire (of Putin-Medvedev and Dugin) applies much more
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