Radio Interview with Giorgi Kvinitadze

Radio interview with the Commander-in-Chief of the independent Georgia, General Giorgi Kvinitadze is published in the article. He gave this interview to the Georgian office of the radio `Liberty” in May, 1968 on the
occasion of the 50th anniversary of independence Georgia. The audio recording of this interview is preserved at the National Centre of the Manuscripts. The interview of Giorgi Kvinitadze is an interesting source for those researchers who are interested with the issues of the contemporary history. In his interview Giorgi Kvinitadze recalls the period of announcing independence, those facts that influenced him much. He also tries to ground the viewpoint that Georgia is a country of European style and not the Asian one.