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They implanted in the minds of the Apkhaz people that the
Georgians had been their historical enemies capturing and inhabiting
their land, hindering development of Apkhazian culture and
wishing to destroy the Apkhaz nation 258 ; some Apkhazs indeed
believed in such false statements 259
. Though, that was Georgian
intelligentsia that was trying to stop genocide of the Apkhaz
people… even today, Georgians can stop destruction of the Apkhaz
people carried out by Russia and, in general, can prevent from
total annex ion of Caucasus.
Russian Empire proceeded with the same "divide and rule"
principle in Samegrelo; though another tactic plan had been
brought into the foreground; for instance, during the "Sovietisation"
period Russians could not make the Megrelian Bolsheviks
act like Apkhazs, therefore another "ideological" background has
been discovered: the Tsarist Russia’s well-developed theme (implemented
by Patkanian, Ianovskiy, Ashordia, Vostorgov, etc.) –
"protect the oppressed Megrelian language" – has become urgent;
the Bolshevik leader of the very "movement" was I. Zhvania, the
first secretary of Zugdidi raikom of the USSR communist party.
In 1925 Zugdidi party committee discussed the issue and the
same year a meeting of the central committee presidium of Georgia’s
communist party of (Kakhiani, Okujava, Eliava, Gegechkori,
and Orjonikidze) passed a resolution regarding introduction of
Megrelian as a language of instruction in Megrelian schools as
well as courts, and the publication of the Megrelian newspaper. In
258 The occupant policy of the Russians in Georgia (Apkhazeti) (“divide and rule“) and
the settlement plan for Russian in Apkhazeti is described in detail in the documentary
materials published by the Ministry of Internal Affairs: Archive Newsletter (“Saarqivo
Moambe”), VI, 2009, p. 4-125.
259 For this reason the letter titled “To Apkhazian Brothers“ published by some Apkhaz
Marghania is specific, where the fact of the genocide of Apkhaz people carried out by
the Russians is hidden : Russia (both Tsarist and Bolshevik) which is a destroyer of
Apkhaz people is depicted as the saviour (currently, Russia is attempting to complete
total degradation of the population of Apkhazeti).
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