Georgia’s historians fight against censorship of Soviet archives
They accuse the national archive of hiding information about crimes committed when Georgia was part of the erstwhile USSR.
1 Mar 2019
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They accuse the national archive of hiding information about crimes committed when Georgia was part of the erstwhile USSR.