[gothic-l] Re: Sarmatians and Goths in Poland

[czobor at CANTACUZINO.RO]

--- In gothic-l at y..., dirk at s... wrote:
...
> I am not sure why this is important but we had a South Ossetian
> Autonomous Region (not republic) within Georgia in Stalin's time,
just
> as a North Ossetian Autonomous Region (not republic). Only after the
> fall of the Soviet Union they declared republican status (if I am
not
> mistaken). But this is way off-list.

Indeed, it is way off-list, but I want to make a little correction:
There was indeed a South Ossetian Autonomous REGION within the
Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, but it was a North Ossetian
Autonomous REPUBLIC in the frame of the Russian Socialist Federative
Soviet Republic. I know this very exactly, because I visited the zone
in the time of the USSR. And it was then when I saw in the capital of
Northern Ossetia (at that time it was called Ordjonikidze) a lot of
fair haired children playing in the streets, that I assumed at that
moment that they were Ossetian. But maybe is right the list-member who
said that the fair haired people of Ossetia are in fact Russian
colonists.

> Some people say he was an ethnic Ossetian. The name
> Djugashvili
> > is Georgian, though, at least the -vili part.
>
>
> Well, he himself considered himself a Georgian, so did Lenin as he
> frequently called him the 'Splendid Georgian'. But who knows, much
is
> obscure about his early life.
>

Stalin was Orthodox Christian (in his youth he was a student of a
Orthodox Priest's School). Georgians are Orthodox Christians, while
Ossetians are Muslims. Thus, Stalin was Georgian, he could not be an
Ossetian.

Francisc


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