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Rhiannon12866

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3. Good Grief! The Georgians HATE the Russians! I've been there...

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Mon Oct 6, 2025, 06:44 AM

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And I was puzzled to see so many statues of Stalin in Tbilisi since I thought he was "out of favor", so I asked. And I was told that Stalin was Georgian, not Russian, and he was held in esteem in then-Soviet Georgia "since he killed so many Russians..."

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