The Separatist Speech of the Abkhazians in 1965 in Connection with Khukhuti Bghazhba's Book
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The well-known Abkhaz public figure and linguist Khukhuti Bghazhba throughout his career did everything for the improvement of Georgian-Abkhaz relations. For this Abkhazian separatists punished him. Based on primary sources found in the press, this scientific article aims to present the historical truth regarding the opinion shared in the Georgian scientific community that the Georgian side did not support Khukhuti Bghazhba. We have found evidence to contradict this opinion and hope to provide a fact-based perspective on the matter. The Supreme Council of the Georgian SSR and the Abkhazia District Committee of the Georgian Communist Party, the Supreme Council of the Abkhazian SSR, and the body of the Council of Ministers of the Abkhazian SSR "Soviet Abkhazia" ("Voice of Abkhazia" in Georgian since 1990) indeed expressed some support to him, but it was not enough.
Our goals and objectives are to show the positive role of Khukhuti Bghazhba in the Georgian-Abkhazian relationship, to determine what support was given to the Georgian SSR by the then central government, and also in the article of the newspaper "Soviet Abkhazia" by linguist Mirian (Mirneli) Tsikolia.
For the first time, we bring new primary sources from "Soviet Abkhazia" into scientific circulation. The mentioned newspaper, regardless of the party-political conjuncture in it, still represents a kind of record of the social-political and cultural life of the autonomous republic. Also, for the first time in Georgian historiography, „Абхазия в советскую эпоху. Абхазкие письма (1947-1989). Сборник документов“ " (the materials were collected and published by the odious representative of the Abkhazian separatist movement, historian Igor Marikhuba), the new primary source contained in this collection of documents, which practically describes in detail May 29, 1965, The meeting of Abkhaz separatists held in Sukhumi. Against Bghazhba. Accordingly, we used the methodology of critical study of sources and research of hermeneutics.
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