Editing August Uprising (section)

==Assessment==
Under the Soviet Union, the August Uprising remained a taboo theme and was hardly mentioned at all, if not in its ideological content. Using its control over education and the media, the Soviet propaganda machine denounced the Georgian rebellion as a "bloody adventure initiated by the [[Georgian Social Democratic (Menshevik) Party]] and other reactionary forces who managed to implicate a small and undereducated part of the population in it."<ref>გ. ჯანგველაძე (G. Jangveladze), "მენშევიზმი" (''Menshevism''). ქართული საბჭოთა ენციკლოპედია, ტომი 6 (''Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 6''), Tbilisi: 1983.</ref> With a new tide of independence feeling sweeping throughout Georgia in the late 1980s, the anti-Soviet fighters of 1924, particularly, the leading partisan officer [[Kakutsa Cholokashvili]], emerged as a major symbol of Georgian patriotism and national resistance to Soviet rule. The process of legal "[[Rehabilitation (Soviet)|rehabilitation]]" (exoneration) of the victims of the 1920s repressions began under [[Mikhail Gorbachev]]'s policy of [[Glasnost]] ("''openness''") and was completed on 25 May 1992 decree issued by the [[State Council of the Republic of Georgia]] chaired by [[Eduard Shevardnadze]].<ref>{{cite web | last = The [[Memorial (society)|Memorial]] | title = Декрет Государственного Совета Республики Грузия О восстановлении справедливости в отношении лиц, подвергшихся репрессиям в 1921–1924 гг. за участие в национально-освободительной борьбе Грузии: ''The Decree on restoring justice towards the persons who were subjected to the repressions of 1921–1924 for their participation in the national-liberation struggle of Georgia'' (full text in Russian) | url = http://www.memo.ru/rehabilitate/laws/resp/gruz.htm | access-date = 17 December 2006 | language = ru | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110605114219/http://www.memo.ru/rehabilitate/laws/resp/gruz.htm | archive-date = 5 June 2011 | url-status = dead }}</ref> In connection with the opening of the [[Museum of Soviet Occupation (Tbilisi)|Museum of Soviet Occupation]] in May 2006, the Ministry of Interior of Georgia made public more archival reserves, and started to publish names of victims of the 1924 purges and other materials from the Soviet era secret archives.<ref>{{cite web | last = საქართველოს შინაგან საქმეთა სამინისტრო (Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia) | title = საარქივო სამმართველო (Archive Administration) | url=http://www.pol.ge/archive| access-date = 17 December 2006| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071008163935/http://www.pol.ge/archive| archive-date = 8 October 2007|language=ka}}</ref>