Today, 99 years after the Soviet occupation of Georgia began, the U.S. stands with Georgia in support of its hard-fought sovereignty and territorial integrity, the US Embassy to Georgia said on its official Facebook page.
“Today, 99 years after the Soviet occupation of Georgia began, the U.S. stands with Georgia in support of its hard-fought sovereignty and territorial integrity. The great Georgian writer Mikheil Javakhishvili described what it felt like to live in that time and we will never forget his words,” reads the statement.
The Georgian national flags are flying at half-staff at the government and diplomatic missions’ buildings across the country today to mark the day when the Russian Red Army took over Tbilisi in 1921.