<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army" id="mw7A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Red Army">Soviet forces</a> suppress <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956_Georgian_demonstrations" id="mw7Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="1956 Georgian demonstrations">mass demonstrations</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" id="mw7g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic">Georgian SSR</a>, reacting to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev" id="mw7w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Nikita Khrushchev">Nikita Khrushchev</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-Stalinization" id="mw8A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="De-Stalinization">de-Stalinization</a> policy.<sup about="#mwt145" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-27"}}' id="cite_ref-27" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_9#cite_note-27" id="mw8Q" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 27;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mw8g">[27]</span></a></sup>
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