ABSTRACT
The attitude of the Moscow Government towards little Georgia has often been compared to that of the German Imperial Government towards Belgium. The invasion and annexation of Georgia aroused strong protests in Europe, particularly in Socialist circles at Second Internationale. The sudden turns of fortune which brought her emancipation, independence and then forced her once again under Soviet control makes history of her annexation one of painful of all: and there is a general feeling in France and elsewhere that epilogue to this tragedy is yet to come. The Soviet Government demanded a plebiscite in Bessarabia, and on every occasion Roumania rejected the proposal. An outburst of anti-Roumanian feeling and protest marked the tenth anniversary of annexation of Bessarabia by Roumania. During the first stage of Russian Revolution the Georgian people threw in their lot with other Russian peoples. Georgia, which was joined, for purposes of administration, to Transcaucasia, Armenia and Azerbaidjan, considered herself an integral part of liberated Russia.
