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Death solves all problems. He is not a man, he is no longer a problem (Joseph Stalin). Only a quote from this one Soviet leader can show us how repressive, unjust and tyrannical the system called the Soviet Union was. It was a regime that, according to unofficial statistics (unfortunately, there are no accurate statistics, due to concealment and destruction of facts), killed three and a half million people, of which nearly one and a half million people were shot and two million people died in exile.

At the beginning of the XX century, the Georgian society faced various challenges of vital importance. On the one hand, in conditions of Russian colonial policy, Georgian people didnt have civil political rights and on the other hand, in spite of abolition of serfdom Georgian peasantry still continued to cultivate the lands of landowners which raised the dissatisfaction of people and increased their social activities. They demanded to establish democratic governance. It should be mentioned that the liberation movement in Georgia coincided ongoing revolutionary processes in the Russian empire. Analysis and the general comprehension of the current situation and concrete facts give basis to conclude that at the beginning of the XX century national liberation and social-liberation movements in Georgia merged each other.

Dissident movement as one of the forms of the struggle against undemocratic regime was widely spread in the Soviet Union. It united lots of freely thinkers in Russia and the Union Republics and made a big contribution in exposing Soviet totalitarian crimes inside and outside the country. In this viewpoint, one of the distinguished direction of the currents democratic phenomenon was Georgian dissident movement.