How did the Great Purge affect Georgian writers and poets?

The Great Purge of the 1930s had a devastating impact on Georgian literature, effectively destroying the generation of writers who had survived the initial Bolshevik crackdowns of the 1920s.1

This period of state-sponsored violence, overseen by Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria, created an environment of profound trauma and repression. For the few writers who managed to survive the holocaust, the experience resulted in the loss of friends and family, and it deeply compromised their creative spirit, nerve, and inspiration. The suppression was so severe that the subsequent literary thaw in Georgia occurred much more slowly than it did in Russia.1