Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A lokacin da yake makaranta, Giya ya kasance fitaccen ɗan wasa kuma ya kasance cikin ƙungiyar 'yan wasan Olympic na Soviet a cikin tseren mita 100 da 200. A lokacin yaro Giya ya girma a cikin mahalli mai yawan harsuna da yawa yana magana da Rasha, Jojiya, da Ingilishi a makaranta da kuma Ukrainian a gida. A shekara ta 1986 Giya ya shiga Cibiyar Harshen Harsuna a Tbilisi tare da ƙwarewa a cikin harshen Ingilishi, amma a 1987 an riga an tattara shi a cikin Sojojin Soviet da ke aiki a Turkmenistan a kan iyaka da Iran. Mahaifiyarsa ta ce dole ne ta biya don kauce wa a aika da Georgiy zuwa Afghanistan (Soviet-Afghan War). A wannan lokacin shugaban Soviet Mikhail Gorbachev ya fara gyare-gyarensa perestroika tare da sassaucin ra'ayi (glasnost). Wannan tsari kawai ya hanzarta aiwatar da rushewar Tarayyar Soviet. Don ƙoƙarin dakatar da tsari da kuma adana jihar Soviet, rikice-rikice da rikice-rikice da yawa sun tashi a cikin Tarayyar Soviet wanda ya kasance bala'in 9 ga Afrilu
(Sojojin Soviet sun kashe fararen hula 20 da ba su da makamai) wanda ya sa yawancin 'yan Georgia suka hada da Georgiy Gongadze.