Georgia

Georgia is a country in the Caucasus region of Eastern Europe, situated on the coast of the Black Sea. It borders Russia, Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaijan. It was a part of the Russian Empire and later Soviet Union between 1921 and 1991. The capital city of Georgia is Tbilisi.
==History==
===20th Century===
In the early 20th century, Georgia was a part of the Russian Empire, and it is in this era of the country, when perhaps the most infamous Georgian was born - Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili, who would later be known as Joseph Stalin; the cruel tyrant who brought the Soviet Union to it's full power. Stalin much admired Georgia throughout his life until his death, being quotes as saying "Long Live Georgia!" at a party with his sycophantic circle of friends; he also had a heavy Georgian accent when speaking Russian and never attempted to hide it.
From 1918 to 1921 Georgia was independent; Soviet Russia recognized Georgia's independence with the Treaty of Moscow, but the recognition proved to be of little value...as the Soviets invaded Georgia and bringing the local Bolsheviks to power in 1921 and annexing it into the Soviet Union in 1922, making it one of Soviet Union's republics, known as the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic. Georgia would remain an unindustrialized periphery of the Soviet Union until Stalin's first five-year plan when it became a major centre for textile goods. 
On March 9, 1956, about a hundred Georgian students were killed when they demonstrated against Nikita Khrushchev's policy of de-Stalinization that was accompanied by an offhanded remark he made about Georgians at the end of his anti-Stalin speech - On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences.
thumb|250px|A Soviet Georgian government buildingThe Soviet Union attempted to purge Georgia of it's culture and heritage, as it did with many of the nations it held in it's red grasp, but Georgians would have none of that - when the Russian language was meant to become the common language of the Soviet Union, in 1978, Soviet authorities had to face the opposition of thousands of Georgians, who gathered in Tbilisi to hold mass demonstration after Soviet officials accepted removal of the constitutional status of the Georgian language as Georgia's sole official state language. Thanks to these protests, on April 14, 1978, Moscow approved the reinstatement of the constitutional guarantee the same year, and the day of April 14 was established as a Day of the Georgian Language.
After the Third World War and the invasion of Moscow by NATO forces, Georgia declared independence under Zviad Gamsakhurdia, much like other post-Soviet states, now free to be a independent country it once was. Sadly, the country couldn't take a deep breath of freedom, as Gamsakhurdia was soon deposed in a coup d'état, from 22 December 1991 to 6 January 1992. The country then became embroiled in a bitter civil war, which lasted until 1994
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