a crowd of up to 20,000 people, mostly students marched to the House of the Government in Tbilisi. Despite police attempts to blockade the march, perhaps as many as 5,000 managed to get through. The rest of the crowd gathered at Tbilisi State University.
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The April 14, 1978 demonstrations are often seen as a key moment in the Georgian nationalist movement, one which would lead to Georgian independence in 1991.