Soviet Past Research Laboratory (Sovlab) is a think-tank researching Soviet totalitarian past and countering its weaponization by the Kremlin disinfo
Tbilisi, Georgia
Joined June 2011
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1/2 Excellent tour by @SovLab of sites in central #Tbilisi depicting the Soviet Union's occupation & oppression of π¬πͺ - with colleagues from @usingeo, @LTEmbassyGe & @PLinGEORGIA. Before anyone freaks out, we talked only about this brutal period of history.
I recommend this tour. β at Georgia
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disgraceful spectacle of massive & multi-day GD / Imedi attacks on French Ambassador @Sherzag for... supporting the good work of @SovLab research on the Soviet past, and pictured with some of Tbilisi's finest people here.
This is done to try and cow all embassies & donors into submission, to vilify research into Soviet crimes, and to repress all civil society, also with attack on PEN Georgia ( @pen_int ).
Attempt specifically to tarnish ambos at home also, as GD has done with previous ambassadors. All the more reason to support them for standing up and being willing to engage! Merci pour vos efforts courageux!
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.@SovLab is currently holding a protest lecture outside of the Tbilisi State University where students are camped out. The topic is the Holodomor: the genocide of the Ukrainian people.
Speakers are Irakli Khvadagiani (right) and @kandelakigiorgi (left).
#GeorgiaProtests
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So @SovLab does amazing work trying to reclaim Georgian history from Moscowβs erasure/manipulation
It says an awful lot that in βGeorgian Dreamβsβ Georgia, this work is villainized
Every former captive nation deserves its own narrative sovereignty, and a govt that embraces it
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"in Georgia, the phantom of Stalin serves the propaganda of Putin." #Georgia #history Great article by @regisgente, featuring also @SovLab & @kandelakigiorgi
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Great to visit Sovlab earlier this week to hear about their impressive work.
Preserving the memory of the victims of Stalinβs terror, and telling the stories of their experiences, is an essential part of understanding #Georgia's history.
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@kandelakigiorgi
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π’ Information Integrity Coalition calls on the political authorities of #Georgia to stop attacks on CSOs & country's international partners and to make efforts to implement the recommendations necessary for the EU integration process.
π Full statement: infointegrity.ge/en/attacks-β¦
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Lashing out at @SovLab, Speaker Shalva Papuashvili has spearheaded a GD push to frame the outcry following the discovery of Stalinβs image on one of the icons in Tbilisiβs Holy Trinity Cathedral as an βattack against the Church.β
formulanews.ge/News/105000
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The @SovLab reports that in recent weeks, the #GeorgianDream has launched a propaganda campaign against the organization.
According to SovLab, at the same time, its web resources are facing a coordinated attack from #Russia.
πbatumelebi.netgazeti.ge/newsβ¦
ALT Sovlab states that distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are occurring on their public archive website server (archive.ge), aiming to disrupt its proper operation.
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SovLab, a CSO that studies π¬πͺβs Soviet past says the gov't hinders access to Soviet archives
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#SovietOccupation #archives #History #SovietPast #Georgia
civil.ge/archives/577598
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W 1924 r. sowiecki wΕadze okupacyjne wydaΕy rozkaz rozstrzelania 11 demokratycznie wybranych czΕonkΓ³w Zgromadzenia Konstytucyjnego Gruzji. 1/12
#stalin_ofiary_zbrodni #stalin_kalendarium_zbrodni
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Millions of people in Russia and the former captive nations still think that for the USSR the WWII started in 1941. But it is on this day in 1939 that the Soviet Union entered the war, but not as a victim but as an aggressor and an ally of the Nazi Germany by invading Poland.
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"Accusations of collaboration with the Germans are (...) a deprivation of honor, it is (...) an indictment of the Polish people for having participated in the underground struggle" - Leopold Okulicki, one of the sixteen.
#stalin_crime_victims
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The story of WΕadysΕaw Raczkiewicz and his native Georgia is a story of how an important political figure can be completely erased from a society's collective memory through sustained propaganda and the engineering of false memories.
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@MieroszewskiPL
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If you are in Tbilisi on June 8-9 - @TbilisiZeg is not to be missed! Amongst others, @Sovlab will be doing a joint panel on Stalin and weaponisation of Soviet history.
Walking tours, performances, conversations, masterclasses, discussions & stories, stories, stories. So many stories! Join us for Zeg: the amazing gathering of some of the worldβs best storytellers from across industries. June 8-10. Get your ticket now β‘οΈ tbilisistorytelling.com/
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Irakli Khvadagiani: "Last year, Soviet Past Research Laboratory (SovLab @SovLab) bought a unique photo legacy of Niko and Giorgi Nikoladze, Medea and Vakhtang Gambashidze, from one of their descendants. 1/3
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Attending a conference on the anniversary of the 1920 7 May Treaty on mutual recognition between Georgia and Russia with great speakers: @anneapplebaum @JasonSteinhauer @antelava @kandelakigiorgi and Beka Kobakhidze by @Sovlab.
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Thank you, Georgia! A very interesting and thought-provoking few days in Tbilisi. My gratitude and appreciation to @SovLab for all the work they are doing to excavate the histories that have been buried or forgotten.
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Ambasador M. Maszkiewicz @PLinGEORGIA zwracaΕ uwagΔ na potrzebΔ wsparcia gruziΕskich organizacji, ktΓ³rych dziaΕalnoΕΔ orientuje siΔ wokΓ³Ε kreowania polityki pamiΔci. Dlatego @MieroszewskiPL juΕΌ wspiera swoim doΕwiadczeniem @SovLab, a kolejne wyzwania przed nami.
