Museum of Soviet Occupation (Tbilisi)

Being the third such museum in the post-Soviet states, it was inspired, at least partially, by the examples of similar exhibitions in Tallinn (Estonia) and Riga (Latvia).

[1][2] The necessary financing was primarily provided by the Presidential Fund, an extra-budgetary source of revenue controlled by the administration of the president of Georgia.

Other exhibits include protocols of dissidents' examinations, orders to shoot or exile, personal files of the repressed people, artifacts from Soviet-era prison cells.

The museum publishes thematic collections and regularly invites historians to deliver public lectures on Georgia’s 20th-century history.

The President of Russia Vladimir Putin complained to his Georgian counterpart, Mikheil Saakashvili, at their meeting in St. Petersburg in June 2006, pointing out that many of the leading Soviet leaders such as Joseph Stalin and Lavrentiy Beria came from Georgia.