The Red Army enters Tbilisi, 1921—the end of Georgia’s brief period of independence.

Just a year earlier, in 1920, the RSFSR and the Democratic Republic of Georgia had signed a peace treaty: Moscow recognized the country’s independence and pledged not to interfere in its internal affairs, while the Georgian side, among other things, legalized the Communist Party. However, as early as 1921, the Bolsheviks’ 11th Army launched an offensive against Georgia. Soviet propaganda portrayed this as an “uprising of the Georgian working people” who had turned to Russia for help.

Russia always does this.

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