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Soviet Georgia: Socialism, Stalin, and the Collapse of the USSR

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Georgian Language Is Not Respected

My grandfather is not allowed in any of the schools because he's just a tradesman's child. He gets into one school in the Armenian district where he has to walk now four kilometers on foot to get there. Georgian language was the last subject and didn't even need a grade. So who cares? It's a terrible degradation of the Georgia language, Georgian sort of standing within 3D C is not really something that is respected. And also disrespect life, like his position as a tradesman is also, as I said, not looked upon as something desirable.

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