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Did Stalin during his reign gave any special interest or priviliges to Georgia and the Georgian people?

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I can think of two things:

  • There was a high number of people from the Caucasus area in his administration. I'm not sure it one would call it a privilege to come to Stalin's attention, but it was certainly special treatment.
  • Stalin and those friends had palaces in the Caucasus. Those would have brought money into the local economy.
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From what I read in his biography, if anything he did the opposite. He hated his father, hated the church. During his rule a lot of purges hit the Caucasus, including the complete removal of population groups to Siberia and replacing them with Russian natives.

He rarely even went back there, only a few times to visit his ailing mother (whom he adored) after installing her in what amounted to a palatial home for her.

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  • Stalin was from Georgia, not Siberia.
    – Bregalad
    Mar 5, 2021 at 16:56
  • @Bregalad so? I never said he was from Siberia...
    – jwenting
    Mar 8, 2021 at 19:11
  • @Bregalad undesirables were removed to Siberia from Georgia. jwenting never said JS was from there. Mar 9, 2021 at 13:46
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Georgians weren`t given special treatment just because Stalin was Georgian. The Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic was an ordinary Soviet republic among other Soviet republics.

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