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| | The Georgian - South Ossetian Conflict, chapter 5 |
 | | But even though, the tendency is clear, the titular nations, in the case of the Union Republic of Georgia, Georgians, Abkhazians and South Ossetians, were in their designated homelands subject to affirmative action programmes as first-order or second-order titular nationalities, leading to a disproportionate overrepresentation in the party organs, professional employment and higher education. |
 | | The titular nationalities are clearly overrepresentated in comparison to their share of the population at large. |
 | | The principle of national self-determination was based on Stalins definition of a nation from 1913 according to which the nation is "a historical constituted, stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, economic life, and psychological make-up manifested in a common culture. |
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