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April 9 tragedy in Tbilisi (1989)

On the Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia map as “Tbilisi”

9 Apr 1989 — Outside Georgia’s government house, Soviet troops broke up a peaceful pro-independence vigil using clubs, sharpened spades and gas. Twenty-one people were killed, most of them women. The killings turned Georgian opinion decisively toward independence.

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Site of memory
Chapter
Collapse of the Soviet Union (chapter 9 of Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia)
Atlas
Remaking the State: Meiji Japan 1600–1912 and Post-Soviet Russia 1964–2000
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Map showing April 9 tragedy in Tbilisi (1989), site of memory in Remaking the State: Meiji Japan 1600–1912 and Post-Soviet Russia 1964–2000
SITE OF MEMORY · REMAKING THE STATE: MEIJI JAPAN 1600–1912 AND POST-SOVIET RUSSIA 1964–2000

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