The Soviet intervention on April 9, 1989 resulted in the "Tbilisi Massacre". The event pushed the Abkhasians even further from Georgia in an effort to show themselves as pro-Soviet and the Georgians as offending anticommunists. In an effort to stave off further resentment against itself by invading again, Russia left the region to its own whims. What came was a war of laws between Georgia and Abkhazia.