Why South Ossetia is not Georgia · My Notes

This is a response to the frequent "S.Ossetia is an internal Georgian business" claim. South Ossetia is a de facto another country.

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When Stalin joined Georgia, Ossetia and other into USSR they were administratively united into Georgian Soviet Socialistic Republuc; Ossetia has been split to South and North parts. S.Ossetia and Abkhazia became Autonomous Republics as parts of GSSR and North Ossetia a part of Russia. USSR somehow fell apart to ex-SSR's, not to lands of which it was built; and international society "recognized" Georgia in the ranges of GSSR. But S.O. and Abkhazia never agreed to that and were de facto living fully independently from Georgia. People of these lands voted several times with over 90% being for living with Russia. It gave to most of Ossetians and Abkhazians Russian passports but it didn't do anything to annex the lands in all 17 years, only doing the peacekeeping mission in the region. For all the years they had their own governments, military and so on just as normal sovereign countries. That's not to mention that Georgian and Ossetians aren't fancy about each other too much, with 2 another attempts of Georgians to genocide Ossetians in the last 100 years (the current war being the 3rd try), and as far as I'm concerned all 3 attempts were stopped by Russia.
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