"evropuli qartia saqarTvelo "European Charter for Regional or ...

Megrels, the Laz, the Svans and the Batsbs, though the Acharans
are mentioned as a separate nation. L. Beria was acquainted with
all materials but emphasized the issue of the Acharans, he urged
Stalin to interfere and avoid such a mistake in the "Nationality
Dictionary", because such a division into nations contradicted the
Leader’s opinion on a nation.
Since 1970s the derangement of Georgian identity has been
planned by the Russian Empire with a new intensity. On April 14,
1978 the Soviet Empire attempted to abolish the already secondary
status of the Georgian language as a state language of the
Georgian Republic. Russia’s plans were even "more ambitious";
the following excerpt represents a fragment of Mikhael Suslov’s
(1902-1982) report published in the magazine of Paris National
Council ("Georgia the Warrior", May 26, 2003):
"The communist party is glue and while it maintains its properties we
have to proceed with the rescue plan of Russia which must differ in different
republics.
The Generals residing in the Far East must be offered normal living
conditions. In order for them to settle down we need the frontier territory of the
Black Sea that is where the Georgians live. We should take into consideration
the fact that Georgian differ from us greatly and sooner or later they will bring
up an issue of independence and demand freedom. We must commence the
struggle from Apkhazeti. By taking advantage of Apkhazeti we must give independence
to Samegrelo, Svaneti, Achara and other regions. We have to stir up
the regional-national sentiments in each of the regions individually. Western
Georgia should be set against Eastern Georgia and we must perform our function
of arbitrator. At the same time we should scientifically convince Georgians
that they are migrants from different countries and belong to different nations,
this will give us an opportunity to get rid of them from the territory of Georgia".
Nineteen years have passed after the revival of Independence of
Georgia on April 9, 1991 but the Georgian government could not succeed
in removing the imperial linguistic ethnological "mines" up to the
present day; moreover, at present Georgia is losing more information
wars than ever. Today, Europeans those like Hewitt or Feuerstein who
enjoy "Q'azaxiši gazeti" (Peasant’s Newspaper) and others like J. Gip-
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