The crimes of Stalin, the darling of Georgians and their teacher

Abkhazia entered the Soviet Union as an independent Soviet republic that was then annexed by Stalin to Georgia and flooded with Georgian colonists who displaced the native Abkhaz from all positions of value. Of the several dozen tourist resorts (the main cash industry), one was run by an Abkhaz director, one by a Russian, the rest by Georgians.

The present Georgian new rational for the Abkhazians runs like this: first, there are no real Abkhazians or rather just a few, see, most of the Abkhazians are really Georgians who changed their names many years ago and besides, if they enter Russia, they will be Russified and disappear as a separate culture (which one would guess they are not since after all there are no real Abkhazians just Georgians with funny family names). This would sound almost plausible until one considers that in 1922, 1991 and if 2008 had succeeded in South Ossessia the Abkhaz would have faced a third extermination attempt by the Georgians in less than 100 years.
Posted by Stanislav