From the report of the captain of the Tiflis provincial battalion Ushveridze to the commander of the Tiflis provincial battalion on the combat unit about the robbery of residents of the Tskhinvali region by Menshevik soldiers.
.1. A resident of the village of Kheitis-Prisi, Vasily Tekoevich Shiukaev, a representative of the villagers of Kvemo-Ubani, Orthodox, asked on May 30, testified that soldiers of 4 companies and machine-gun crews located in Kvemo-Ubani went around the house and demanded milk and cheese. When we had food, we gave them willingly, but if it didn’t turn out, they scolded us in every possible way. The soldiers burned firewood, not only that, they even burned the handles and wooden parts of various agricultural implements. Near us there is a cemetery; on the day of the Ascension of the Lord, bread, vodka and two fried chicken were brought to the monuments to the dead. The soldiers, not even waiting for the consecration by the priest, stole and ate them. Most of all, we are concerned about the fact that soldiers live in our houses, we ourselves live constrained. So far, the weather was bad - we sheltered them, but now we would like them to be put out and put up in tents outside the village, all the more so since the weather is good now. Soldiers walking around the yard often crush little chickens and kill poultry. In general, the request of all the villagers for the soldiers to be withdrawn from the village. I have no further complaints in this case.”
May 31, 1919. Vasily Shiukaev.
2. A resident of the village of Kheitis - Prisi, a representative of the villagers of Shua-Ubani, Semyon Gibilovich Shiukaev, an Orthodox, asked on May 30, testified: A machine-gun crew and an artillery platoon were stationed in Shua-Ubani. Soldiers destroy wooden fences and burn them. Six large building boards were also burned. They always demand bread, if we don’t have it, then they begin to swear. The request of our villagers to withdraw the soldiers from the village so that they do not bother us. I have no more complaints
. May 31, 1919 Simon Shiukaev.
3. The representative of the villagers of Dzhabiti — Ubani, the village of Kheitis-Prisi, Grigory Gavrilovich Dzhabiev, an Orthodox, asked on May 30, testified that we had 3 and 1 company soldiers. When they came for the first time, they forced Vasil Teknaishvili to vacate the house and settled in it themselves, burned a fight and took two pounds of flour. Konstantin Tekniashvili burned a wooden fence, stole a chicken. At Aleksey Dabashvili, they burned three firewood carts and stole a chicken. Three firewood carts were taken from me and burned. For all these things, of course, no one paid a dime. One pound of baked bread was taken from Zurab Dzhabishvili, one firewood was burned. The request of the villagers to withdraw the soldiers from our village. I have no more complaints.
May 31, 1919.
4. The representative of the village of Kheitis-Prisi, a resident of Bes-ant-Ubani, Shakro Solomonovich Besashvili, an Orthodox Christian asked on May 30, testified: We have a 2nd company. The soldiers burned a hundred pieces of stakes, took thirty bundles of straw for laying, burned a lot of wood lathing, and a wooden fence. The request of all villagers to withdraw the soldiers from the village. I have no more complaints.
May 31, 1919 ...
The inquirer is the captain — Ushvaridze.
TsGAOOR and SS Gr. SSR, f. 19, d, 19, l. l 85–92. Original, typewritten.
May 1919
From the book "The struggle of the working people of South Ossetia for Soviet power" (1917-1921). Documents and materials. Compiled by I.N. Tskhovrebov.
