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Wikipedia: The Red Army invasion of Georgia also known as the Soviet—Georgian War or the Soviet invasion of Georgia (15 February – 17 March 1921) was a military campaign by the Soviet Russian (RSFSR) Red Army against the Democratic Republic of Georgia (DRG) aimed at overthrowing the local Social-Democratic (Menshevik) government and installing the Bolshevik regime in the country. The conflict was a result of expansionist policy by the Soviets, who aimed at control of the same territories which had been part of Imperial Russia until the turbulent events of World War I, as well as the revolutionary efforts of mostly Russia-based Georgian Bolshevik elite, who did not enjoy sufficient support in their native country to seize power without foreign intervention. Independence of the DRG had been recognized by Russia in the 7 May 1920 treaty and the invasion of Georgia was not universally agreed upon in Moscow.
![[Georgian officers at the Headquarters of People’s Guard in Tbilisi]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Headquarter_of_Civil_Guard_1549_s.jpg "Georgian officers at the Headquarters of People’s Guard in Tbilisi")
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![[Headquarters of the Soviet Caucasus Front, c. 1921]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Headquarter_of_Caucasus_Army_s.jpg "Headquarters of the Soviet Caucasus Front, c. 1921")
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