Strategically it has always been a formidable barrier between Europe and Asia Minor. Today it remains a key position in the struggle for the Middle East.
The traditional trade route between the West and India or China passed through Georgia since ancient times. Today the Caucasus is economically a self-contained unit, with immense and untapped mineral wealth.
Its four nations (Armenian, Georgian, Azerbaijanian and North Caucasian) have nothing in common with the Russians either racially, ethnically or linguistically, and least of all historically.
They each had in their past powerful states and brilliant military commanders, renowned throughout the Middle East and Europe, such as: Tigranus the Great, King of Armenia, 1st century B. C.; David the Builder, King of Georgia, 11th century; Heraclius the Second, King of Georgia, 18th century; Shamyl, Immam of North Caucasus, 19th century.
Each of these four nations has repeatedly proven in its history that its nationalism remains totally unaffected not only by a mere 50 years of foreign occupation and repression, but even by one or more centuries. It has remained untouched today.
In particular, Soviet Georgia and Soviet Armenia represent today, in the Soviet Russian empire, two countries where an intense fire of nationalism burns unabated throughout their entire population! These four nations produced in this century responsible statesmen and independent governments with a Western outlook. They are friendly to the West, and more so to all captive nations and satellites.
The strong spirit of nationalism evident in the four Caucasian nations is a guarantee that, together with the liberation movements of other enslaved nations, they will regain independence and thus guarantee the human rights for their peoples.
Dr. A. Ramishvili
Archive of OUN. - Library. - ABN-Correspondence. - 1968. - №6. - November-December. - P.37
