Passage A.548

rendering, not the wording of the record

I lived in the village of Mugareti with a Tatar, with Beridze Aziza (they all had Georgian surnames, in Mugareti, in Persa and in Giorgitsminda too...). Army units were already coming in – the internal troops – Beria's troops. This host of ours, Aziza, said to my uncle: "Gabo, we Tatars are glad that the army is coming; they think a war with Turkey is going to begin. I know everything; I have a friend in Baku, Shola, and he told me they are planning to deport you