A Well Calculated Gambit Or A Sheer Blunder?
The collapse of Soviet Union has ignited a number of ethnic conflicts in various parts of former Soviet Union. Georgia, a tiny hilly republic in Caucasia, with various ethnic and religious groups was no exception. South Ossetia and Abkhazia were two autonomous republics within Soviet Georgia. Upon declaring independence from Soviet Union in March of 1991, soon the then ultra nationalist Georgian president Gamsakhurdia decided to abolish autonomous statuses of South Ossetia an