The Transcaucasian Soviet was a communist partisan group led by the Tiflis Three (Lavrentiy Beria, Vasil Mzhavanadze and Valerian Kobakhia), which launched a major partisan uprising within Reichskommissariat Kaukasien during the West Russian War. The Tiflis Three were captured and publicly executed in 1961 and have since become martyrs to freedom fighters in Kaukasien.