[lbo-talk] Caucasian Geo-graphy

[Chris Doss]

I don't mean this as a dig at Georgia, but Stalin and Beria are in fact Georgian national heroes to this day. Saakashvili started a victory march in 2003 from the statue of Stalin in Gori. It's not surprising, given that they are the only world-famous Georgians.

--- On Fri, 8/22/08, B. <docile_body at yahoo.com> wrote:

 The
> republic's most notorious 'favorite son' was
> Joseph
> Stalin, who once studied for the priesthood in
> Tbilisi. Georgia produces 95 percent of the tea grown
> in the U.S.S.R."
>