The Soviet Occupation Museum
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Tbilisi, Shota Rustavelis gamziri, 3
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41 review
July 3, 2024
History view that should be respected.
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May 19
The Museum of Occupation is a part of the National Museum of Georgia, located on its top floor. There was a lot of information on a lot of plates, explications and posters of different sizes - it was hard to navigate. It seems better to go with a guide who can explain everything and keep up the pace. In general, it is interesting, but, from the point of view of the museum space, it is not very new. A similar exhibit, for example, was made at the Gulag Museum in Moscow. I did not like the second tier of this exhibition: it is located under the ceiling, consists only of texts with a very small translation into English. It was almost impossible to read it in the semi-darkness, for which I take a point.
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March 18
In fact, it is a separate thematic two-tiered hall on the 4th floor of the National Museum. It is a shame that such an important topic as the "best manifestations" of the punitive Soviet machine, which went through all the cities and towns of the Union, is shown so haphazardly and incoherently using the example of Georgia. There is logic in the chronology of the exposition, but that's it. Russian Russians, Jews, and Others are missing the clear and obvious message "a country in which a Georgian shot a Georgian, a Russian shot a Russian, a Jew shot a Jew, and further down the list, and then all of each other, cannot have a future," which is replaced in places by the presence of some terrible external enemy in the face of the entire USSR, except the Georgian SSR. But as a reminder that in the Soviet Union they laid down a high bell tower on any national identity, and each Republic was essentially just a colony, from which any resources were siphoned off to please the "center" - it is certainly useful. However, episodes like Ordzhonikidze's mysterious death under the rule of his former friend Dzhugashvili are not mentioned at all, nor the role of Beria and Dzhugashvili in the formation of the firing squad, which killed hundreds of thousands and millions everywhere - and Georgia, unfortunately, did not escape this fate either - although it would seem to be dirty and bloody. This is directly related to the inside of the "Soviet country".
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