Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Duk da (ko wataƙila saboda) alaƙar ƙasar da Joseph Stalin, mulkin Soviet a Georgia ya kasance mai tsauri musamman a cikin shekarun 1950 kuma ya nemi taƙaita maganganun al'adun Georgia. A cikin 1955, Zviad Gamsakhurdia ya kafa ƙungiyar matasa ta ɓoye wanda ya kira "Gorgasliani" (magana game da tsohuwar layin sarakunan Georgia) wanda ya nemi yaɗa rahotannin cin zarafin haƙƙin ɗan adam. A shekara ta 1956, an kama shi a lokacin
zanga-zanga a Tbilisi a kan Soviet manufofin de-Stalinization kuma aka sake kama shi a 1958 don rarraba adawa da kwaminisanci wallafe-wallafe da kuma shelar. An tsare shi na tsawon watanni shida a asibitin masu tabin hankali a Tbilisi, inda aka gano cewa yana fama da "rashin hankali tare da rashin biyan kuɗi", don haka watakila ya zama farkon wanda aka azabtar da shi na abin da ya zama babban manufa na amfani da ilimin hauka don dalilai na siyasa.