Soviet Occupation Day (Georgia)
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| Soviet Occupation Day | |
|---|---|
| Observed by | Georgia |
| Date | 25 February |
| Next time | 25 February 2025 |
| Frequency | annual |
Soviet Occupation Day (Georgian: საბჭოთა ოკუპაციის დღე, sabch'ot'a okupats'iis dge) is a holiday in the country of Georgia. It is observed annually on February 25[1][2] to commemorate the Red Army invasion of Georgia in 1921.[3] The holiday was established in 2010 and its first observance was in 2011.
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Overview
In February 1921, the Red Army, following the post-1917 turmoil in Transcaucasia, entered Georgia, which was then the Menshevik-controlled Democratic Republic of Georgia. The Georgian Menshevik army was defeated and the government fled the country. On February 25, 1921 the Red Army entered the capital Tbilisi and installed a communist government, led by Georgian Bolshevik Filipp Makharadze. The Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic was established on February 25, 1921.[4] For the next 68 years, February 25 was celebrated as an official holiday, the Day of Establishment of Soviet Power in Georgia.[5]
On July 21, 2010, Georgia declared February 25 Soviet Occupation Day to recall the Red Army invasion of Georgia in 1921.[6][7] The Georgian parliament voted in favor of the government’s initiative. The decision, endorsed unanimously by the Parliament of Georgia instructs the government to organize various memorial events on every February 25 and to fly national flags half-staff to commemorate, as the decision puts it, hundreds of thousands of victims of political repressions of the Communist occupational regime.[3]
Georgia's establishment of Soviet Occupation Day followed the example of Moldova.[1] Moldova's president Mihai Ghimpu instituted in 2010, Soviet Occupation Day[8][9] to remember the Soviet occupation on June 28, 1940,[10] but the Constitutional Court cancelled his decree on July 12, 2010.[11][12] In Latvia the Occupation of the Latvian Republic Day was declared an official remembrance day on May 18, 2000, it is observed on June 17.[13]
See also
- Red Army invasion of Georgia
- Soviet occupation of Latvia in 1940
- Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Georgia declares February 25 Soviet Occupation Day
- ↑ Georgia establishes ‘Soviet Occupation Day’
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- ↑ Geronti Kikodze (1954) Notes of a Contemporary, first published in 1989, Mnatobi, Issue 1, Tbilisi, Georgia.
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- ↑ Georgia to mark Soviet occupation every year
- ↑ Vladimir Socor, Moldovan Government Chickens out of Historical Assessment of Communism
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- ↑ Vladimir Socor, Russia Defends Soviet Occupation of Moldova
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- ↑ Moldpres, Moldovan top court says presidential decree on Day of Soviet Occupation unlawful
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