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They suppressed religion, important in both Georgia and Estonia, and decreed that everyone learn Russian. They established war industries on these foreign soils and imported Russians to run them. A Soviet aim was to obliterate nations without intergrating into them or embracing them.
These attitudes are offensive to Georgians, who through archeology trace their history to the 4th millennium B.C., and in historic times, to the 4th century A.D., when Christianity was introduced and from which time they have buildings standing still to testify to their Christian identity. A rather bleak national museum in Tbilisi displays remarkably beautiful and individual relics from the Middle Ages equal in quality to those in any other museum in the world. One doesn’t have to share the Georgians’ feelings to understand their power.
Every Soviet citizen has an internal passport — a document that among other things states nationality, established through the mother’s identity. A Russian immigrant to Estonia will have a Russian child.
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