On 4/11/06, Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/11/06, Daniel P. B. Smith wikipedia2006@dpbsmith.com wrote:
Before the breakup of the Soviet Union, the existence of Georgia, the SSR was almost unknown.
Oh what nonsense. Stalin himself was a Georgian and this was common knowledge in the Soviet era.
I think Daniel really meant a different word than 'unknown'. Georgia-the-SSR was rarely MENTIONED, and if it was, it was rare for it to be mentioned in non-specialist circles outside a little piece of trivia about Stalin's birthplace.
-Matt