DBWI: What is Legacy of Jughashvilli in Georgia?

So as I'm sure anyone who follows European politics knows, this has been a tumultuous week for Georgia. Violent nationalist protests and left-wing counter-protests have racked major cities, and all for the government's removal of a single statue in Tblilisi. That is of course the capitol-adjacent statue of Ioseb Jughasvilli, long time fascist dictator of Georgia.
Supporters of Orthodox priest turned dictator see him as a patriot that freed Georgia from Soviet rule, while his detractors see him as nothing more than a Nazi puppet.
Which of these two do you think is more accurate?
 
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Can se get a bit more informations about that man?

He's a bit unknown outside of Caucasus...

He's more or less the Mussolini of the Caucasus... a former priest who ended up working alongside Lenin during the Civil War, only to turn to Fascism almost by chance, when he saw how some among the Russian Bolsheviks were even more racist towards the peoples of the Caucasus than the Tsar's people were. He repelled a Soviet invasion in the late 1930s - losing Abkhazia and South Ossetia, however - and ruled Georgia from the 1920s to the 1950s despite having had close ties to Nazi Germany at one point. Under him, Georgia got rid of basically all Muslims and Jews inside its borders, while the Orthodox Church became the most powerful single organization in the country, second only to Jughashvili himself.

After he died, no one was able to fill the power vacuum left by him, so the West put Giorgi Bagration in charge as soon as possible, fearing another Soviet invasion.
 
OK, I'll try. Georgia co-operating with the Nazis prolonged the war for at least a year. The Nazis would have been done in 1942 if they hadn't gotten to the oilfields. But I don't see how an independent Georgia could have done otherwise.
 

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He's more or less the Mussolini of the Caucasus... a former priest who ended up working alongside Lenin during the Civil War, only to turn to Fascism almost by chance, when he saw how some among the Russian Bolsheviks were even more racist towards the peoples of the Caucasus than the Tsar's people were. He repelled a Soviet invasion in the late 1930s - losing Abkhazia and South Ossetia, however - and ruled Georgia from the 1920s to the 1950s despite having had close ties to Nazi Germany at one point. Under him, Georgia got rid of basically all Muslims and Jews inside its borders, while the Orthodox Church became the most powerful single organization in the country, second only to Jughashvili himself.

After he died, no one was able to fill the power vacuum left by him, so the West put Giorgi Bagration in charge as soon as possible, fearing another Soviet invasion.
Trotsky's regime tried to crush him but miserably failed.
 
Trotsky's regime tried to crush him but miserably failed.

In the 1930s, when he took Abkhazia and South Ossetia. He wasn't able to annex Georgia proper though, and when the Soviet Union fell Georgia was able to recover at least the Kartvelian-speaking bits of Abkhazia, but not South Ossetia. Jughashvili nostalgia however is a relatively recent phenomenon, since Georgia feels surrounded on all sides by Islam: it now borders Azerbaijan, Chechnya, Circassia, Dagestan and Turkey... and while Turkey's a fairly secular society, the same can't be said about Chechnya or Circassia...
 
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