21 July 2010, 16:00
Georgia announces February 25 to be Day of Soviet Occupation
The Georgian parliamentary committee on foreign relations has initiated two statements, according to which August 23 will be announced to be the Memory Day of Totalitarian Regimes' Victims, and February 25 - the Day of Occupation.
"On August 23, 1939, the Molotov-Ribbentrop act was signed, and on February 25, 1921, Russia occupied the Democratic Republic of Georgia," explained Akaki Minashvili, chairman of the above committee.
The statement on announcing February 25 to be the Day of Soviet Occupation was passed today by the parliamentarians at their plenary session, the "Interfax" reports.
The document charges the government to organize every year on February 25 actions in memory of the victims of Soviet occupation, which was committed on February 25, 1921. All the official establishments shall half-hoist state flags and hold a minute of silence, the "News-Georgia" reports.
The statement on accession to the decision of the European Parliament and the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE to announce August 23 to be the Memory Day of Victims of Totalitarian Regimes notes that Georgia, as well as many other nations, "suffered from the totalitarian Soviet regime," the "NEWSru.com" writes.
