The Armenian Genocide has been the darkest chapter of our modern history, and this is an obvious fact for all Armenians. However...

05:50:00 26.12.2024

The Armenian Genocide has been the darkest chapter of our modern history, and this is an obvious fact for all Armenians. However, most of our historians fail to emphasize the nearly equally tragic event that followed our genocide, which brought calamities upon our nation and continues to bring disaster. This event was none other than the defeat of our First Republic's army in 1920, during the war unleashed by the Russian-Turkish or Bolshevik-Kemalist alliance against Armenia (which has an interesting parallel to the 2020 war). As a result, Kars fell treacherously, and we lost all of Western Armenia.

Our historians also fail to emphasize that the battle fought by Nzhdeh for Syunik was part of this war, where the Turks attacked Western Armenia from the West, and the Russians (from Azerbaijan) attacked Syunik from the East. We can give many objective reasons for why we were defeated on the Western front and victorious on the Eastern front, but the main reason for the victory on the Eastern front was that we had a nationalist and anti-Bolshevik Commander like Nzheh, while on the Western front, we were defeated because we lacked a similar leader who could adopt a truly pro-Armenian political stance and lead a decisive struggle against foreign enemies.

Had we won this war entirely, instead of partially, we would have found ourselves in an entirely different favorable position, and the fall of our First Republic would not have occurred. If on the Western front, we could have neutralized the Bolshevik internal fifth column, as Nzhdeh did in Syunik, and if we were determined to fight for our independence until our last breath in a Nzhdeh-like manner, the Turkish state probably would not exist today, and we would have had the so-called "Wilsonian Armenia" borders. The Kemalists, with the help of the Bolsheviks, won their war for independence, while we lost. As a result, the Turks grew tenfold in strength and in numbers and continued to live in peace, while we dwindled and weakened, continuing to fall into an endless cycle of wars.

A hundred years later, because we failed to learn this lesson and did not have a leader like Nzhdeh during the 2020 44-day treacherous war, we lost the war and completely lost Artsakh, which had been liberated by our freedom fighters in the early 90's. However, our struggle for independence continues, and only by following the extraordinary example of Nzhdeh’s spirit can we win the catastrophic wars ahead and bring an end to the Russo-Turk-Zionist onslaught acting against our Fatherland and independent statehood.

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Glory to Armenia and Hail Victory!