Armenians - A History of Betrayal (expanded)

                                                                   Alik Bakhshi

 

Armenians - A History of Betrayal

(expanded)

 

According to Herodotus, Armenians migrated to Asia Minor from Thrace and settled in the kingdom of Urartu. After the destruction of Urartu by Babylon, Armenians settled in the area known as the Armenian Highland, which became the site of a long conflict between the Roman Empire and the Kingdom of Pontus (the Mithridatic Wars, 89-63 BCE), and then with the Parthian Kingdom (53 BCE - 226 CE).

The territory of the Armenian Highland unwittingly became the arena of this conflict. After defeat in a battle with Lucullus, the Pontic King Mithridates VI took refuge with his relative, the Armenian King Tigranes II, who refused to extradite him. In response, Lucullus in 69 BCE... In the 1st century BCE, Lucullus allocated only two legions to Armenia, which proved sufficient for victory. When Tigranes II learned of the Roman invasion, he famously remarked, "If these are ambassadors, then they are too many; if enemies, then they are too few." This boastful phrase cost Tigranes II dearly. Lucullus's talent as a military leader was revealed at the Battle of Tigranocerta. He utterly routed the Armenian army, which was vastly superior in numbers to 300,000. According to Plutarch, on the Roman side, "only a hundred were wounded and only five killed," while Tigranes II's army suffered enormous losses, up to 100,000 infantrymen killed, and all but a handful of cavalry were destroyed. (Plutarch, Life of Lucullus, § 25)

There are clearly two contradictory points here. Either Tigranes the Great was unaware that within the territory of his vast empire—that is, Greater Armenia from sea to sea, which, according to Armenian historical scholarship, included almost the entire Middle East, along with almost half of the powerful Parthia, whose forces had defeated the Seleucid Empire—a war between Rome and the Kingdom of Pontus had been raging since 89 BC, or there was no Greater Armenia, but rather a small Armenian kingdom, a vassal state of Mithridates VI.

 

The consequences and legacy of this battle for Tigranes II had an impact on the subsequent tragic fates of his son and grandson, and indeed on all of Armenia. Tigranes II acknowledged his vassalage to Rome, for which, in 66 BC, he was ceded. He received the title of "friend and ally of the Roman people" (Treaty of Artashat, 66 BC) and, with Rome's permission, retained his throne, thereby betraying his former ally and relative Mithridates VI, with whom Pompey ended a victorious war three years later.

 

In 54 BC, during Rome's war with the Parthian Empire, Artavasdes II, the son of Tigranes II, as an ally under the Treaty of Artashat, pledged to provide the Roman commander Marcus Licinimus Crassus with aid in the form of 10,000 cavalry and 30,000 infantry. However, as soon as the Romans invaded Partha, Artavasdes II abandoned Crassus with his army. Due to the betrayal of their Armenian ally, the Roman army was defeated, and Crassus's head was solemnly presented at the feet of the Parthian king Orodes II. (Plutarch, vol. III. XIX),

 

The Armenian betrayal did not end there. In 36 BC, the Roman general Mark Antony launched a new campaign against Parthia. He formed an alliance with several kings of the region, including Artavasdes II, who by then had again defected to Rome. According to Plutarch, Artavasdes II provided Antony with 6,000 cavalry and 7,000 infantry. (Plutarch, Antony 37) However, as soon as Antony entered Parthian territory, Artavasdes repeated his betrayal, and once again the Romans, left without the promised aid, suffered defeat. In 34 BC, Mark Antony, seeking revenge for the betrayal, entered the Armenian capital, arrested the treacherous traitor, and took him to Alexandria.

The Armenian king and his family, bound with golden chains, followed Antony in his triumphal procession. (Tacitus, The Annals 2.3) After being held captive for three years, Artavazd II was beheaded. (Cassius Dio, Roman History 51.5.5; Strabo, Geography, book 11, p. 532)

 

Artavazd II's son, Artaxias II, fled to the Parthian king Phraates IV, to whom he promised to become an anti-Roman ally, betraying (Bunson, Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire, p. 48). Phraates IV invaded Armenia and placed Artaxias II on the throne. (Daryae, The Oxford Handbook of Iranian History, p. 173) For the murder of his father, Artaxias ordered the massacre of the entire Roman garrison stationed in Armenia. Naturally, Rome could not help but react to what was happening in the conquered lands. Emperor Augustus decided to install Artashes' younger brother, Tigranes III, as king of Armenia. He had lived in Rome for 10 years under close supervision. (Temporini, Politische Geschichte (Provinzen Und Randv Lker: Griechischer Balkanraum; Kleinasien): Griechischer Balkanraum; Kleinasien), p. 979)

To this end, Augustus sent Tigranes III to Armenia, accompanied by a large army. However, before the army arrived, Artashes II was assassinated by conspirators in the palace. (Bunson, Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire, p. 48) Thus, in 20 BC, without a fight, the Romans unhinderedly proclaimed Tigranes III the new king of Armenia.

 

I have deliberately provided links from reliable sources and have not used Wikipedia, which is filled with ambiguity and sometimes outright lies from Armenian pseudo-historians regarding the so-called Greater Armenia from sea to sea, which is depicted on their map as nothing less than the mistress of the seas (1, 2, 3):

 

 

To substantiate my assertions, I will cite an example from Wikipedia: Greater Armenia reached its greatest power under Tigranes II (95-55 BC). Tigranes II, better known as Tigranes the Great, was the king of Greater Armenia from the Artaxiad dynasty, a major military leader and conqueror of the Hellenistic period. (Greater Armenia - Wikipedia)

But the dates of the so-called functioning of Greater Armenia do not fit into the period of the wars between Rome and the Kingdom of Pontus from 89-63 BC. And then with the Parthian Kingdom from 53 BC to 226 AD. It seems these three truly great powers were unaware that they were fighting on the territory of Greater Armenia, or perhaps they were fighting among themselves, so to speak, with the permission of Tigranes II, which seems pure absurdity. One thing is clear: the empires existing at that time simply did not consider Greater Armenia a worthy opponent. Lucullus would not have intended to invade the kingdom of Tigranes II had the latter not refused to hand over his relative Mithridates VI. Lucullus was well aware of Greater Armenia's military weakness, which was incapable of maintaining a professional army like the Pontic one; otherwise, he would not have marched on Tigranocerta without adequate preparation and a small army of 40,000. In the very first clash, the Remlians routed Greater Armenia's unprofessional army of 300,000 men.

 

How can we speak of Armenia's greatness if Tigran II was a vassal of Rome, if Rome controlled the throne and lives of its kings?

 

Armenia was one of the small dependent kingdoms, such as Media, Antropatene, Cappadocia, Sophene, and others, whose territories were the arena of wars between Rome, Pontus, and Parthia. Armenian historians attempt to present as parts of Greater Armenia wherever Armenians established compact settlements, where they built churches and erected khachkars.

 

It is known that Armenians have lived and continue to live across a vast territory: Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, the Caucasus, Crimea, and, more recently, in the Rostov region, where Armenians now outnumber Cossacks. Presumably, Armenia will eventually lay claim to the Don Cossack territory, based on the fact that evidence of the Armenian people's presence there has been preserved for centuries, in the form of Armenian churches and cemeteries with khachkars (cross-stones). The other day, I came across a YouTube video with the pompous title "The Armenians Ruled All of India"—no more and no less, namely, all of India, where, even before the British colonized it, they had established merchant houses to infiltrate the economic and political life of the Mughal Empire. Now, again, about Armenian betrayal. During the colonization of India, the British won the Battle of Plassey in 1757 because the Armenian commander Omichand Petrus Arutyun, after a failed attempt at blackmail, refused to fight on the side of the Nawab of Bengal, Siraj ud-Daulah, after which the British established control over Bengal. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kepur8nA3ps )

 

During World War I, the Tsarist government took advantage of the Dashnaks' plans, promising them assistance in establishing an Armenian state in Turkey. To this end, Armenians living in Turkey were provided with weapons to organize an armed rebellion in the rear in anticipation of the advancing Russian army. The Dashnaks carried out a brutal massacre of the unarmed local population in order to sow panic and clear the territory for a future fictitious state. However, this plan turned tragic for the Armenians of Turkey. To secure their rear, the Turkish government was forced to deport the Armenians deep into the empire. This time, the Armenians found themselves among the Turkic population fleeing pogroms, which provoked vengeance from the refugees. Evil begot evil. Since then, peoples who had lived in peace for centuries have become enemies, and the seeds of that evil still germinate with the help of the surviving, but deceived by the Russians, Nazi Dashnaktsutyun party. The fact is that Moscow created an Armenian Republic on Azerbaijani soil, the former Irivan Khanate, but it never became independent, contrary to the Dashnaks' hopes. True, the Armenians tried to make their presence felt by organizing terrorist attacks in the Moscow metro in 1977, detonating ducklings filled with bolts among passengers. The authorities managed to identify the organizers and perpetrators, who turned out to be NUP (National United Party of Armenia) members Stapan Zatikyan, Hakob Stepanyan, and Zaven Baghdasaryan, who were sentenced to death.

 

The Dashnaktsutyun party was revived with the weakening of the central government and the collapse of the USSR, leading to the 30-year Karabakh conflict, which ended in defeat for the Armenians. Once again, Armenians feel betrayed by Moscow, accusing it of withholding military support. One wonders why Russia, sacrificing its lucrative economic relations with Turkey and Azerbaijan, should have supported Armenia, whose policies, with the emergence of Pashinyan, were easily predicted to be pro-Western. It should be noted that the Armenians behaved, as they say, in the Armenian way. On the one hand, Armenia officially did not provide military support to the Armenians of Karabakh; moreover, Armenia did not recognize their republic as independent. On the other hand, and here is the most inexplicable, Pashinyan officially declared that Karabakh is Azerbaijani territory. So, why should Russia have helped the Armenians of Karabakh, let alone fought against Azerbaijan in Armenia's stead? Absolutely absurd! Not only is Russia mired in lies in the war with Ukraine, but it is also caught in a situation orchestrated by the Armenians, which could not be better reflected in Tyutchev's words: "Russia cannot be understood with the mind."

 

Indeed, at the beginning of the Karabakh conflict, Russia sided with the Armenians. For example, the Russian 366th Motorized Rifle Regiment participated on the Armenian side in the capture of Khojaly, which ended in the mass death of civilians, known as the Khojaly genocide. However, subsequent events, in which the Kremlin perceived Armenia as responsible, forced a reconsideration of the traditionally closer relations with Armenia compared to Georgia and Azerbaijan. Moscow has repeatedly used the Armenian diasporas in its colonies to suppress their aspirations for independence, which is considered nothing less than treason on the part of the diaspora. This happened in Baku in 1918, when Armenian Bolsheviks led by Shaumyan staged a bloody rebellion, slaughtering the Azerbaijani population. If not for the fraternal assistance of Turkey, which, despite the desperate situation on the front, hastily sent an army to save Baku, the Dashnaks' unprecedentedly brutal extermination of the local population would have escalated to a catastrophe no less catastrophic than the genocide of European Jews. To the Turks' credit, it must be noted that, having defeated the Dashnak armed units, they prevented a massive retaliatory massacre, thereby preserving the Armenian diaspora in Azerbaijan. (4)

 

I will cite an example of betrayal characteristic of the Armenian diaspora. After conquering Turkestan, the Russians, well aware of the mentality of the Armenian people, their propensity for migration and their remarkable adaptation to new conditions, encouraged the resettlement of Armenians to new colonial territories in order to dilute the hostile Turkic population with Christians. Just as in the Caucasus, the Russians saw Armenians as a pillar of their power in Turkestan. Within a short period of time, a strong Armenian diaspora formed in the Fergana and Zarafshan valleys, the wealthiest of the three. Armenians displaced the Turkic merchants; Armenians became the owners of shops, numerous stalls, restaurants, tailor shops, buyers and resellers, and the keepers of the newly established beer halls and apartment buildings. Naturally, a significant number of Armenians were represented among government officials and military personnel. An Armenian quarter emerged in Kokand, housing an Armenian Gregorian church and Armenian parish schools—in short, an exact replica of Armenikend, a large Armenian district in Baku. It is important to note that there was no hint of hostility between Armenians and the local Turkic population. However, everything changed radically with the first destabilization of established socio-political relations.

 

After the fall of the Tsarist regime, a national government of Turkestan was established in Kokand. Simultaneously, the Bolsheviks in Tashkent established their own government, devoid of a single representative of the indigenous ethnic group, which issued an ultimatum to Kokand to recognize Soviet power. It was then that the treachery of the Armenian diaspora revealed itself: Dashnak military units suddenly appeared and carried out a particularly brutal bloody massacre in Kokand, slaughtering the entire population within three days. The city was completely destroyed and burned. It must be said that this very act was the cause of the Basmachi rebellion, which the Russians had to fight until the 1930s. Interestingly, the massacres in Baku and Kokand coincided exactly in time – March 1918. This leads to one conclusion: wherever the Armenian diaspora is present, the extremely nationalist ideology of the Dashnaktsutyun party is also latent. Otherwise, such sudden treachery on the part of the Armenian diaspora cannot be explained. Moreover, the Kokand massacre is an eloquent illustration of the Dashnaks' brutal bloodthirstiness and the danger posed by the Armenian diaspora. Armenian historians seem to have omitted Central Asia from the "Greater Armenia," and there's only one explanation: bloodlust and terror were both accompanying and integral characteristics of the Dashnaktsutyun party's activities.

 

After their defeat in Karabakh, the Armenian Nazis lost their authority, and the Dashnaktsutyun party was forced to participate in the 2026 elections in a bloc with another party. There is hope that the Armenian people will reject Nazi ideology, which throughout the 20th century and a quarter of the 21st century instilled in Armenians a lie about a Greater Armenia from sea to sea, a lie that never existed in history. History knows of no wars of conquest by Armenia, yet without attacks on neighboring powerful empires such as the Roman, Pontic, Seleucid, and Parthian, it would have been impossible to create a Greater Armenia, especially one stretching from sea to sea, as depicted on the map of Armenian historians. History has no example of the creation of an empire without wars. Even if we assume that the Empire of Greater Armenia truly existed, trying to send the Armenian people to fight in the depths of time is pure absurdity. It would be like Italy laying claim to the entire territory of the Great Roman Empire from England to Persia, including the Armenian Highlands, and such an empire undoubtedly existed.

 

Of course, the Russians, who created a state for the Armenians that they never had, are right to consider Armenia's decision to trade Russia, the former patron guilty of failing to assist in the war with Azerbaijan, for the West as treacherous and ungrateful. However, what did the Russians expect if they did good not at their own expense, but at Azerbaijan's expense, while using the Nazi ideology of the Dashnaktsutyun party as a tool to achieve purely selfish goals in the war with Turkey, and then outlawing that same party? In this circumstance, two traitors clashed, each getting what they deserved. That Armenia is an artificially created state is confirmed by a very telling reality: namely, the fact that Armenians are leaving the country in large numbers, not seeing it as a homeland. While Azerbaijani refugees from Armenia and Karabakh fled to Azerbaijan, Armenian refugees found themselves anywhere – in Russia, Europe, even across the ocean in distant California – but certainly not in Armenia.

 

1. Was there a Greater Armenia? https://alikbahshi.blogspot.com/2020/07/blog-post_31.html

2. Greater Armenia or the Great Lie. https://alikbahshi.blogspot.com/2023/01/blog-post.html

3. Armenian nationalism on the website 33b.ru as a reflection of the overall picture in the media.

https://alikbahshi.blogspot.com/2016/11/33bru_3.html

4. A Hole in the Portrait, or From the Great Lie to "Greater Armenia." https://alikbahshi.blogspot.com/2016/11/blog-post_41.html

 

August 7, 2026

 

 

Армяне – история предательства (дополненная)

  

Алик Бахши

 

Армяне – история предательства

(дополненная)

      

    Согласно Геродоту армяне мигрировали в Малую Азию из Фракии и поселились в государстве Урарту. После разорения Урарту Вавилоном армяне обосновались на местности, названной Армянским нагорьем, которая явилась ареной долгого противостояния между Римской империей и Понтийским царством (Митридатовы войны 89-63 гг. до н. э.), а затем с Парфянским (53 г. до н, э. -  226 г. н. э.)

      Территория Армянского нагорья невольно оказалась ареной этого противостояния. После поражения в одной из битв с Лукуллом  Понтийский царь Митридат VI  укрылся  у  находящегося с ним в родстве царя Армении Тиграна II, который отказался выдать его. В ответ Лукулл  в 69 г. до н. э. выделил всего два легиона для в Армению, что оказалось достаточным для победы. Когда Тиграна II  узнал о вторжении римлян, он произнес крылатую фразу: «Если это послы, то их слишком много; если же враги, то их чересчур мало».  Эта бахвальная фраза дорого обошлась Тиграну II.   В битве под Тигранокертом проявился талант Лукулла как военачальника. Он наголову разбил намного численно превосходящую 300 тысячную  армянскую армию. По словам Плутарха  с римской стороны « только сотня были ранены и только пять убиты », в то время как потери армии Тиграна II огромны, до 100 000 убитых пехотинцев, вся кавалерия была уничтожена, за исключением горстки.  (Плутарх «Жизнь Лукулла, § 25)

   Тут явно два взаимоисключающих момента. Либо Тигран Великий не ведал, что на территории его громадной империи, то бишь Великой Армении от моря и до моря, которая по версии армянской исторической науки включала в себя почти весь Ближний Восток с чуть не с половиной мощной Парфии, силами которой была разбита империя Селевкидов, уже с 89 г. до н. э. идёт война Рима с Понтийским царством, либо не было никакой Великой Армении, а было небольшое Армянское царство, находящееся в вассальной зависимости от Митридата VI.

 

    Последствия и наследие этой битвы для Тиграна II сказались на дальнейшей трагичной  судьбе его сына и внука, да и для всей Армении. Тигран II признаёт себя вассалом Рима, за что в 66 г. до н. э. получает титул «друга и союзника римского народа» (Арташатский договор от 66 г. до н. э.) и с позволения Рима сохраняет свой трон, предавая тем самым своего бывшего союзника и родственника  Митридата VI, победную войну с которым спустя три года заканчивает Помпей.

 

   В 54 г. до. н. э. во время войны Рима с Парфянским царством сын Тиграна II Артавазд II, будучи союзником согласно Арташатскому договору, обязался предоставить римскому военачальнику Марку Лициниму Крассу  помощь, в виде 10 000 всадников и 30 000 пехотинцев. Однако, как только римляне вторглись в Парфу, Артавазд II со своей армией покинул Красса. Из-за предательства армянского союзника римская армия была разбита, а голова Красса была торжественно преподнесена к ногам парфянского царя Орода II. (Plutarch, vol III. XIX),

 

    На этом предательство армян не закончилось, так в 36 г. до н.э. римский полководец Марк Антоний предпринял новый поход на Парфию. Он заключил союз с несколькими царями региона, включая Артавазда II, который к тому времени снова перешёл на сторону Рима.  По словам Плутарха, Артавазд II предоставил Антонию 6000 тысяч всадников и 7000 тысяч пехотинцев. (Plutarch, Antony 37)  Однако, стоило Антонию войти на Парфянскую территорию, Артавазд вновь повторил предательство, и вновь римляне, оставшись без обещанной помощи, потерпели поражение. Марк Антоний в 34 г. до н.э., чтобы отомстить за предательство вошел в столицу Армении, арестовал коварного предателя и увёз в Александрию.

Армянский царь и его семья, скованные золотыми цепями, следовали за Антонием в его триумфальной процессии. (Tacitus, The Annals 2.3) Продержав в заключении три года, Артавазда II обезглавили. (Cassius Dio, Roman History 51.5.5; Strabo, Geography, book 11, p. 532)

 

    Сын Артавазда II Арташес II бежал к Парфянскому царю Фраату IV, которому он пообещал стать антиримским союзником, предав  (Bunson, Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire, p.48) Фраат IV вторгся в Армению и посадил Арташеса II на трон. ( Daryaee, The Oxford Handbook of Iranian History, p.173 ) За убийство своего отца Арташес распорядился перебить весь римский гарнизон, находящийся в Армении. Естественно Рим не мог не реагировать на происходящее в завоёванных землях. Император Август решил посадить в качестве царя Армении младшего брата Арташеса Тиграна III, который в течении 10 лет под присмотром проживал в Риме.  (Temporini, Politische Geschichte (Provinzen Und Randv Lker: Griechischer Balkanraum; Kleinasien): Griechischer Balkanraum; Kleinasien), p.979 )

С этой целью Август направил в Армению Тиграна III  в сопровождении большой армии. Правда, ещё до прибытия армии Арташес II был убит заговорщиками во дворце. ( Bunson, Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire, p.48 ) Так в 20 г. до н. э. без боя римляне беспрепятственно провозгласили Тиграна III новым царем Армении,

 

    Я неспроста дал ссылки из надёжных источников и не пользовался Википедией, заполненной двусмысленностью, а порой откровенным враньём армянских лже историков в отношении так называемой Великой Армении от моря и до моря, которая представлена на нарисованной ими карте, не иначе как владычицей морей (1,2,3):

 

 

 Чтобы не быть голословным приведу пример из Википедии:  Наивысшего могущества Армения Великая достигла при Тигране II (95-55 годы до н. э.)   Тигран II, более известный как Тигран Великий – царь Великой Армении из династии Арташесидов ,крупный полководец и завоеватель эпохи эллинизма. ( Великая Армения — Википедия  ) 

    Но даты, так сказать функционирования Великой Армении, никак не втискиваются в период войн Рима с Понтийским царством 89-63 гг. до н. э. И затем с Парфянским царством в период с 53 г. до н. э. по 226 г. н.э. Похоже три действительно великие державы даже не подозревали, что сражались на территории Великой Армении, или может быть они сражались между собой, так сказать с  позволения  Тиграна II, что выглядет чистым абсурдом. Ясно одно, существовавшие на тот исторический период империи просто не считали Великую Армению достойным соперником. Лукулл и не собирался вторгаться в царство Тиграна II, если бы тот не отказался выдать ему своего родственника Митридата VI. Лукулл был прекрасно осведомлён, о слабости Великой Армении в военном отношении, которая не в состоянии содержать профессиональную армию подобную понтийской, иначе бы не пошел на Тигранокерт без соответствующей подготовки с небольшой армией в 40 тысяч. При первом же боевом столкновении римляне разметали непрофессиональную армию Великой Армении в 300 тысяч человек.

 

   О каком величии Армении может идти речь, если Тигран II был вассалом Рима, если троном и жизнью её царей распоряжался Рим?

  

   Армения была одной из мелких зависимых царств, таких как Мидия, Антропатена, Кападокия, Софена и др., территория которых являлась ареной войн, между Римом, Понтом и Парфой. Армянские историки пытаются везде, где армянами созданы компактные очаги проживания, где они строили церкви и ставили хачкары, преподнести как части Великой Армении.   

 

    Известно, что армяне проживали и проживают на обширной территории: в Турции, Ливане, Сирии, Иране, на Кавказе, в Крыму, а с не давних пор в Ростовской области, где армян сегодня больше, чем казаков. Надо полагать, со временем на  территорию донских казаков будет претендовать Армения на том основании, что там с давних времён находятся свидетельства пребывания армянского народа в виде армянских церквей и кладбищ с хачкарими. На днях в YouTube мне попался ролик с громким названием «Армяне владели всей Индией» не больше и не меньше, а именно всей Индией, где они ещё до колонизации её англичанами посредством созданных купеческих домов внедрились в экономическую и политическую жизнь государства Великих моголов. Теперь вновь о предательстве со стороны армян. Во время колонизации Индии в битва  при Плеси в 1757 г. британцы выиграли потому, что армянский военачальник Омичанд Петрус Аратюн, после неудавшегося шантажа отказался воевать на стороне наваба Бенгалии Сираджа уд-Даула, после чего англичане установили контроль над Бенгалией. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kepur8nA3ps )

 

     Во время Первой мировой войны царское правительство воспользовалось планами дашнаков, пообещав им помощь в создании армянского государства на территории Турции. С этой целью армянам, проживающим в Турции, было предоставлено оружие для организации вооруженного мятежа в тылу в преддверии наступающей русской армии. Дашнаки предприняли жестокое избиение безоружного местного населения, чтобы посеять панику и очистить территорию под будущее химерическое государство. Однако, данная затея обернулась трагедией для армян Турции. Турецкое правительство, чтобы обезопасить тылы вынуждено было выселить армян в глубь империи. На этот раз армяне оказались среди бежавшего от погромов тюркского населения, что вызвало месть со стороны беженцев. Зло породило зло. С тех пор народы, веками жившие в мире, стали врагами, и семена того Зла до сих пор прорастают с помощью уцелевшей, но обманутой русскими, нацистской партии Дашнакцутюн. Дело в том, что Москва создала на азербайджанской земле бывшего Ириванского ханства Армянскую республику, но независимой она, вопреки надеждам дашнаков, не стала. Правда, армяне пытались напомнить о себе, организовав в 1977 году в московском метро теракты, взрывая утятницы, начинённые болтами, среди пассажиров. Властям удалось выйти на организаторов и исполнителей, коими оказались члены НОП ( Национальная объединённая партия Армении) Стапан Затикян, Акоп Степанян, Завен Багдасарян, которых приговорили к расстрелу.

    

    Партия Дашнакцутюн вновь возродилась при ослаблении центральной власти и распаде СССР, что вылилось в 30-ти летний Карабахский конфликт, окончившийся для армян поражением. И вновь армяне считают себя обманутыми Москвой, обвиняя русских в неоказании военной поддержки. Спрашивается, с какой стати Россия, жертвуя выгодными экономическими отношениями с Турцией и Азербайджаном, должна была помогать Армении, политика которой с появлением на политическом поле Пашиняна легко прогнозировалась прозападной. Надо отметить, армяне вели себя, как это принято говорить, по-армянски. С одной стороны, Армения официально не оказывала военную поддержку карабахским армянам, более того, Армения не признавала их республику независимой. С другой стороны, и здесь самое необъяснимое, - Пашинян официально сказал, что Карабах это территория Азербайджана. Так, с какой стати Россия должна была помогать армянам Карабаха, да ещё и воевать вместо Армении с Азербайджаном!  Бред, не иначе! Мало того, что Россия погрязла во лжи в войне с Украиной, так ещё вляпаться и в уготованную армянами ситуацию, которая, как нельзя, лучше отражалась бы в словах Тютчева – «умом Россию не понять».  

 

    Действительно в начале Карабахского конфликта Россия была на стороне армян. Так, российский 366-й мотострелковый полк принимал участие на стороне армян во взятии Ходжалы, что окончилось массовой гибелью гражданского населения, вошедшей в историю как Ходжалинский геноцид. Однако, дальнейшие события, в которых Кремль усмотрел вину со стороны Армении, вынудили пересмотреть традиционно более тесные отношения с ней по сравнению с Грузией и Азербайджаном. Москва не раз использовала армянские диаспоры в своих колониях для подавления их стремления к независимости, что рассматривается не иначе как предательством со стороны диаспоры. Такое случилось в Баку в 1918 году, когда армянские большевики под предводительством Шаумяна устроили кровавый мятеж, вырезая азербайджанское население, и если бы не братская помощь Турции, которая, несмотря на отчаянное положение на фронтах, спешно послала армию на спасение Баку, иначе редкое по жестокости истребление местного населения дашнаками приняло бы масштаб катастрофы не меньшей, чем геноцид европейских евреев. К чести турков надо отметить, что разбив дашнакские вооруженные отряды, они не позволили произойти массовой ответной резне, сохранив тем самым армянскую диаспору в Азербайджане.  (4)

 

       Приведу пример предательства, характерный для армянской диаспоры. После завоевания Туркистана русские, хорошо зная менталитет армянского народа, его склонность к миграции и удивительной адаптации в новых условиях, поощряли переселение армян на новые колониальные территории с целью разбавить враждебное тюркское население христианами. Также как и на Кавказе русские видели в армянах опору своей власти в Туркистане. За короткий промежуток времени в Ферганской и Зеравшанской долинах, как наиболее богатых, сформировалась мощная армянская диаспора. Армяне  вытеснили торговцев тюрок; владельцами магазинов, множества лавочек, ресторанов, портняжных мастерских, скупщиками и перекупщиками, содержателями появившихся пивных и доходных домов были армяне. Естественно немалое число армян было представлено государственными чиновниками и военнослужащими. В Коканде образовался армянский квартал, в котором открылись армяно-григорианская церковь и армянские приходские школы, словом, точная копия Арменикенда, - большого армянского района в Баку. Здесь важно отметить, что ни на какое враждебное противостояние армян с местным тюркским населением не было и намёка. Однако, всё в корне меняется при первой же дестабилизации сложившихся социально-политических отношений.

    После падения царской власти,  в Коканде создаётся национальное правительство Туркестана, параллельно большевики в Ташкенте создают своё правительство без единого представителя коренной национальности, которое обращается к Коканду с ультиматумом признать советскую власть. Тут-то и проявилось коварство армянской диаспоры, внезапно появились дашнакские военные формирования, которые устроили особой жестокости кровавую резню в Коканде, вырезав в течение трёх дней всё население. Город был полностью разрушен и сожжен. Надо сказать именно подобное действо явилось причиной возникновения басмачества, с которым русским пришлось вести борьбу аж до 30 – х годов. Интересный факт, что по времени резня в Баку и Коканде полностью совпадают, - март 1918 года. Отсюда следует один вывод: там, где присутствует армянская диаспора, там же скрытно присутствует и крайне националистическая идеология партии «Дашнакцутюн», потому что иначе подобное внезапное коварство со стороны армянской диаспоры объяснить нельзя. Более того, Кокандская резня является красноречивой иллюстрацией звериной кровожадности дашнаков и какую опасность таит в себе армянская диаспора. Среднюю Азию армянские историки, кажется, не включили в состав «Великой Армении» и объяснение здесь одно – жажда крови и террор как сопутствующие и неотъемлемые от «Дашнакцутюн» показатели её деятельности.     

 

    После поражения в Карабахе армянские нацисты потеряли авторитет, и партия «Дашнакцутюн»  вынуждена была участвовать на выборах 2026 года в блоке с другой партией. Есть надежда, что армянский народ откажется от нацистской идеологии, которая на протяжении всего 20 века и четверти 21 века внушала армянам ложь о Великой Армении от моря и до моря, которой никогда в истории не существовало. История не знает, чтобы Армения вела захватнические войны, а ведь без нападения на соседние мощные империи такие как Римская, Понтийская, Селевкидская, Парфянская не возможно было бы создать Великую Армению, да ещё от моря и до моря, как это представлено на карте армянских историков. В истории нет примера создания империи без войн. Даже, если предположить, что империя Великая Армения и в самом деле реально существовала, то сегодня пытаться посылать армянский народ воевать в глубь веков чистый абсурд, это всё равно, что Италия станет претендовать на всю территорию Великой Римской империи от Англии до Персии, включая и Армянское нагорье, причем бесспорно такая империя существовала.  

 

   Безусловно, русские, создавшие армянам государство, которого у них никогда не было, вправе считать поступок Армении, решившей поменять бывшего покровителя в лице России, которая виновна в не оказании помощи в войне с Азербайджаном, на западных, предательским и неблагодарным. Однако, на что русские рассчитывали, если делали добро на за счёт себя, а за счёт Азербайджана, используя при этом нацистскую идеологию партии Дашнакцутюн, как инструмент для достижения сугубо эгоистических целей в войне с Турцией, и потом эту же партию объявили вне закона. В данном обстоятельстве два предателя схлестнулись между собой, получив оба по заслугам.

    То, что Армения искусственно созданное государство  подтверждает  весьма показательная действительность, а именно то, что армяне в массовом количестве покидают страну, не видя в ней Родины. Если азербайджанские беженцы из Армении и Карабаха бежали в Азербайджан, то армянские беженцы оказались где угодно, в России, Европе,  даже за океаном в далёкой Калифорнии, но никак не в Армении.

 

 

1. А была ли Великая Армения?

  https://alikbahshi.blogspot.com/2020/07/blog-post_31.html

2.  Великая Армения или Великая ложь.

       https://alikbahshi.blogspot.com/2023/01/blog-post.htm

3. Армянский национализм на сайте 33b.ru как отражение общей картины в средствах массовой информации.

 https://alikbahshi.blogspot.com/2016/11/33bru_3.html

    4. Дырка в портрете или от Великой Лжи к «Великой Армении».               https://alikbahshi.blogspot.com/2016/11/blog-post_41.html

 

   07.08.2026

 

 

 

Was there a Great Armenia?

 

Alik Bakhshi

Was there a Great Armenia?

 

    As you know, Armenia lays claim to vast territories located in neighboring and not only neighboring countries, as evidenced by the map of “Great Armenia” presented by Armenian historians.

 

         

 

      Judging by the map drawn by them, it seems to me, the state of Armenia occupied a rather vast territory of the Middle East, washed by four seas: the Black Sea, the Caspian Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean (Persian Gulf). But bad luck, the stories are known for Egyptian navigators, Phoenician, Greek, Persian, Roman, Byzantine, Arab, Khazar (the population living on the shores of the Caspian calls it the Khazar Sea), Turkish sailors, however, there is not a single evidence or mention of those sailing on those seas ships of "Great Armenia from sea to sea", yes, yes, exactly from sea to sea, and not otherwise, that's how historians call Armenia today. And it must be considered a big omission of the Armenian historians who did not bother to find the sunken ancient Armenian ships in those seas. True, according to rumors, Noah's Ark is located on Mount Ararat, which the Armenians consider theirs, from which one can conclude that this is the very missing historical fact testifying to the sailors of Great Armenia, the first of which, presumably, was the Armenian Noah.

   Well, it can be hypothesized that the Armenian people have a certain syndrome like an allergy to sea water, but even more surprising is another historical fact, namely wars. The fact is that all great empires, and such, if we take into account the map drawn by Armenian historians, was Great Armenia, did not do without wars. Stories are known for the wars of Ancient Egypt with Assyria, the Persian Empire with the Greeks, Alexander the Great founded a vast empire fighting the empire of the Persian king Darius. Continuous wars within the Middle East were fought by the Great Roman Empire, and then the Byzantine Empire, again with the Persians. The Baghdad Caliphate is known, which was supplanted by the empire of Genghis Khan, and then finally fell under the onslaught of Timur. Finally, the Ottoman Empire, which fought in this region with Timur and subsequently with another Turkic Safavid empire (Kyzylbash Empire). And somehow it so happened that none of the named empires had a chance to fight “Great Armenia from sea to sea”. It is difficult to imagine that somewhere between the named empires, which are always at war with each other, there was at least some small, and even an independent state, and not that Great Armenia. Armenian historians clearly still have to make many "historical discoveries" in order to fill this gap in world history.

     It should be noted that the Armenians in the Persian Empire suffered greatly during the Roman-Persian wars, because the area in which they lived was located on the border between the two empires and passed from hand to hand. In view of the fact that the Armenians often supported one or the other side of the rival powers, the Romans overpowered the Armenians deep into the empire into Cilicia. And today Armenian historians believe that this territory has always historically been part of Great Armenia.

  But even if he agrees with Armenian historians about Great Armenia, which, again judging by the presented map, had in the distant past the status of nothing other than an empire, then this cannot be a reason for its reconstruction. It seems that Armenian historians are going to fight in the depths of centuries in order to recreate the "Great Armenia". That way, Macedonia may demand the re-establishment of the empire of Alexander the Great, and with much greater grounds, relying on indisputable historical facts, or Mongolia will be tempted to return the empire of Genghis Khan.

 

      There are peoples who have never had a state education, for example, the Gypsies. It is hardly possible to name a state on the Eurasian continent, where the gypsy people do not live. It is also difficult to name a state in the Middle East where the Armenians do not live, and not dispersed, but forming compact centers. This feature is well traced in our time. For example, in Crimea, the Armenian population has been known for a long time, recently an Armenian diaspora has formed in the Kuban, where it is already difficult to determine who is more numerous than the Kuban Cossacks or the Armenians who settled there. Many Armenians currently live in the resort towns of the North Caucasus. An interesting and many-speaking fact - at the time of the conquest of Georgia by Russia, 60% of the population of Tbilisi were Armenians. Maybe that's why Armenia today has territorial claims to Georgia as well. In the capital of Azerbaijan, Baku, a whole region where the Armenian population lived compactly was called Armenikend. Another interesting historical fact is that when the Russians conquered the Irvan Khanate of Azerbaijan in the city of the same name, Yerevan, in addition to Azerbaijanis, 5% of Armenians and Kurds lived each. The same demographic situation was in the capital of the Karabakh Khanate, Shusha. There is a large Armenian diaspora in Moscow, Paris, and more recently in America, mainly in California and Argentina. Unlike the Gypsies, the Armenians tend to build churches, which exist or are still preserved in those places where the Armenians founded the diaspora. Taking into account the given reliable data, Armenian historians can significantly expand the borders of Greater Armenia, now from ocean to ocean.

    

    Thanks to the Russian Empire, which, in order to gain a foothold in the Caucasus, began to populate the territory of the former Irvan Khanate with Armenians from all over the Middle East, having previously evicted the Turkic population, later already under Soviet rule, the Republic of Armenia was formed. The Armenians were not content with the expulsion of the Azerbaijanis, they purposefully destroyed the historical traces of their stay on the land allocated for the Republic of Armenia. They left no trace of the Shah's complex in the center of Yerevan, barbarously destroying a beautiful palace, an example of oriental architecture.

  

     Today, in the center of Yerevan, on the site of a former palace, a monument to Dashnak Geregin Nzhdeh (Ter-Harutyunyan) has been erected, who proposed to Hitler to create an Armenian state with the help of Germany as a province of the Third Reich. For this purpose, the Armenian Legion was formed in the Wehrmacht, which conducted punitive raids in the fight against partisans. For cooperation with the Nazis, Geregin Ter-Harutyunyan in the Soviet Union was sentenced to life imprisonment. However, from now on, on Victory Day, the "Immortal Regiment" passes in front of the monument to the fascist Geregin Nzhdeh, as a mockery of the memory of the soldiers who fought against the Nazis. (1) The circle is closed, fascist ideology is immortal! This has never happened before. Armenian Dashnaks sensed the spirit of fascism emanating from the Kremlin. As confirmation - the silence of Putin.

     

                                                               

   The circumstance of deportation of Azerbaijanis also took place during the Soviet era. It should be noted that with Moscow's encouragement, the squeezing out of the local Azerbaijani population was accompanied by the seizure of territory in favor of Armenia.

 

 

    So, Moscow handed over Zangezur to Armenia. This territory of 4500 sq. Km, renamed by the Armenians to the Syunik region, after which Azerbaijan lost the continuity of its territory, for the Nakhichevan region was separated from Azerbaijan. As a result of this policy of Moscow, Armenia became the most mono-national republic in the Soviet Union.

 

   The fact that Armenia is an artificial state formation is evidenced by the fact that Armenians living in other countries do not seek to settle in Armenia, moreover, for a good life, Armenians leave their artificial homeland, as well as the territory of occupied Karabakh. It is noteworthy that, if during the first Karabakh war, the Azerbaijani population of Armenia fled to Azerbaijan, then the Armenians left Azerbaijan anywhere, but not to Armenia.

 

     Russia is at the origins of the appearance in Tbilisi in 1890, long before the German Nazis of the world's first Nazi party "Dashnaktsutyun", which set the goal, through ethnic cleansing and terror, to create a chimerical Armenian state on the territory of Turkey. Russia's support for this political monster during the First World War resulted in the tragedy of both the Armenians themselves living in Turkey and the Turks who were subjected to ethnic cleansing. An attempt by the Dashnaks, the real perpetrators of this tragedy, to blame the Turkish authorities failed at a trial organized by the British occupation authorities in Malta on a tip from the Armenians in 1920. After a long trial, the court did not find the fault of the Turkish government in this tragedy and acquitted all those arrested (2). Interestingly, after the Maltese court, the Armenians no longer attempted to appeal to the courts (3), but decided to put the entire Turkish people against the wall through propaganda, sowing lies all over the world about the Armenian genocide and the never-existed “Great Armenia” (4).

 

   After the collapse of the USSR, Armenia remained the only strategic ally of Putin's Russia, which, like a chain dog, is ready, on the go-ahead from Moscow, to continue the begun weaning of lands for Great Armenia.

 

   1. Victory Parade in Armenian. https://alikbahshi.livejournal.com/43343.html

  2. A hole in a portrait or from the Great Lies to "Great Armenia".       https://alikbahshi.livejournal.com/14877.html

  3. On the issue of genocide, or why Armenia is wary of the trial. https://alikbahshi.livejournal.com/44394.html

  4. Armenian nationalism on the website 33b.ru, as a reflection of the general picture in the media. https://alikbahshi.livejournal.com/17810.html

 

   07/31/2020

 

About the very, very, very... people

 

Alik Bakhshi

 

About the very, very, very... people

 

I hope you've already guessed which people we're talking about, the ones who consider themselves the most ancient, the most cultured, the most intelligent.

 

In short, if you find yourself in Armenia, don't be surprised to learn that much of everything you know about human activity was first invented, made, created, built, written, or baked by Armenians. Moreover, it may well turn out that you, if you represent a people who have made a significant contribution to the development of civilization, such as the English, are ten generations Armenian. I've never encountered anything like this in my travels to various countries. Vasily Grosman very accurately noted this fact:

 

"With insidious ease, a people's nationalism loses its noble foundation; it doesn't become formidable, it becomes pitiful; it doesn't provoke, but humiliates. Thus, by striving to prove some kind of inferiority, a person reveals his own. Some of my interlocutors, across all areas of human creativity, emphasized the Armenian national preeminence in architecture, science, and poetry. They emphasized the superiority of the architectural merits of the temple in Garni over what they considered primitive architecture on the Acropolis; speaking of the poet Tumanyan, they insistently asserted that Tumanyan's genius surpassed that of Pushkin. The point, of course, isn't whether Garni's architecture isn't more perfect than that of the Acropolis, or whether Tumanyan is a greater genius than Pushkin. The point, and the point is certainly sad, is that poetry, architecture, science, and history themselves, in their essence, cease to be significant in the conversations of some of my interlocutors. They exist only to demonstrate the superiority of the Armenian national character over the national character of other peoples. Poetry isn't important; what matters is simply proving that an Armenian national poet is superior to, say, a Russian or French poet. My interlocutors, without even realizing it, impoverished their souls and hearts by ceasing to rejoice in poetry, the perfection of architecture, and the grandeur of science, instead seeing poetry and science merely as a means to assert their national superiority. This aspiration can be so fanatical and narrow that at times it seems like madness."

 

("Znamya," no. 11, 1988)

 

It's hard to suspect Grosman of anti-Armenian sentiment, but it seems to me that many would agree with his opinion. Perhaps this attitude toward foreigners and their culture is also the reason for Armenia's exceptionally mono-ethnic nature. Once at school, the physical education teacher, lining us up, commanded "two steps forward," and drew our attention to the fact that the shortest person in the line had leaped the furthest; a case of the short stature syndrome, so to speak. No people, other than the Armenians, indulge in such an excessive, literally morbid, level of self-aggrandizement aimed at proving their national superiority, which inevitably evokes disgust, and Vasily Grosman was right in his observations.

 

It should be noted that Grosman is not the only authority to describe this situation. The renowned 19th-century Georgian poet and publicist Ilia Chavchavadze wrote about how Armenians insulted and humiliated Georgia and the Georgian people ("Armenian Scholars and Crying Stones"):

 

"There is hardly a people on earth that has been so insultingly humiliated, defamed by everyone who has taken the trouble to do so, as ours. Everyone is trying to either step over us, trample us, and raze us to the ground. They practically want to destroy the memory of us in Transcaucasia, to wipe the name of the Georgian from the face of the earth and abandon us to the whims of the winds." As if we never existed, as if we don't exist today. Poor in spirit, feeble-minded, morally fallen, stupid, uneducated, ill-mannered, utterly ruined, unreliable, cowards—that's the picture of our moral and physical baggage! This is what we were and what we are, according to those whose interests demand such disgrace and humiliation. They bend over backwards to convince everyone and everything, at home and abroad, in words and in print, that we were worthless and unworthy and remain so, if not worse. With this brand upon their brows, they spread the name of Georgian throughout Europe, wherever only their voice and pen could reach. They spread the same kind of fame about us Georgians throughout Russia. True, every Russian or European who had personally had the chance to become familiar with our good and bad sides said something in our favor—but, unfortunately, even among them, many of their opinions were based on the desires of others, dancing to someone else's tune and falling into someone else's trap. God bless them, with their efforts to disgrace us! But the fact is that they swear to the whole world, with word and pen, that from time immemorial, on this side of the Caucasus Mountains, to the sources of the Tigris and Euphrates, almost from the Black and Caspian Seas, there was a so-called Armenia."

 

Here is a map of "Greater Armenia," as presented by the Armenians, which also includes Babylon, Damascus, Persia with its capital, Azerbaijan, and Israel:

 

 

 

 

Incidentally, the main goal of the Nazi Dashnaktsutyun party, formed in Tbilisi in 1890, was the creation of a "Greater Armenia" (1,2) through ethnic cleansing and terrorizing the predominantly Turkic and Kurdish populations of the Middle East. This was subsequently carried out in Turkey and Azerbaijan during World War I, as well as in 1916-1918, and was repeated again in Karabakh. (3,4) The German Nazis, considering Germans a superior race, surprisingly copied the Armenians. Thus, the racist approach towards the Georgian people (Vratsi, the Armenian term for Georgians) on the part of Armenians was surprisingly accurately described by Chavchavadze:

"These Vratsi, as a people, do not deserve to be mentioned, since they are on the path to destruction and degeneration. And even if this were not so, they are not intelligent enough to understand their situation. God did not give them the ability to trade: they are good for nothing except cabbies and chavdars, and can't even use the few places for barns that, ridiculously, they call Georgia. And how can they use them when they have neither the skill, nor the diligence, nor the education, nor the knowledge, nor the desire, nor the willingness to learn and learn—well, at least from those same Armenians, who, they say, are called by God and history, with the banner of culture in hand, to revive and bring happiness not only to the Middle East, but also to distant, wild, and ignorant Asia.

"Not content with dishonoring our name and depriving us of our national dignity, in order to finally wipe us out, they abolish our entire history, our chronicles, our historical remnants and monuments, all our blood-stained services to Christianity, and all our historical heritage, all our own, through various tricks, they claim for themselves. True, 'lies have short legs,' and by taking away or diminishing the virtues of others, you cannot increase your own, but 'the slave of his own desires is hard of hearing and quick of tongue,' as the Georgian proverb goes."

 

Everything Chavchavadze wrote about the attitude of Armenian pseudo-historians toward Georgians is also repeated in the case of Azerbaijan.

 

Chavchavadze unwittingly predicted the situation that occurred a century later in Azerbaijan. The Russians, who settled Armenians from the Middle East on Azerbaijani lands after deporting the Azerbaijanis, created a situation that led to the Karabakh War:

 

According to Chavchavadze, Armenians "are settling where they have never lived. Isn't it clear that with this superficial scholarship they want to convince the world that they have a historical right to occupy these places..."

This situation is identical to the one taking place in Karabakh.

 

From Chavchavadze's text, it is clear that even in his time, Armenian propaganda in Europe was spreading the same lies about the Georgian people as it does about the Azerbaijanis today. Human consciousness is such that the first information is perceived as truth, and the Armenians take advantage of this, rushing to be the first to convey falsehoods to the ignorant, and in this they have succeeded magnificently. Settling across the world, leaving Armenia in search of a better life, they blame neighboring peoples, finding this justification both for their emigration and for calling for aid to create a Greater Armenia for the poor, exiled Armenians at the expense of neighboring peoples. Interestingly, while the Azerbaijanis expelled from Armenia found refuge in Azerbaijan, the Armenians expelled from Azerbaijan, in response, found themselves everywhere but in Armenia, spreading lies throughout the world about Azerbaijanis as barbarians and villains.

"Their boldness and insolence increase day by day; they begin to praise themselves more and more boldly and treat us with ever greater insolence." Nowhere is their once-and-for-all adopted plan of action, their mastered cunning and insidiousness, so clearly outlined as in a single European newspaper, which lists, in order, everything that could serve to exalt and glorify Armenians and destroy Georgians, apparently instilled by these learned scholars. "Here, these gentlemen are no longer shy or squeamish. They openly and openly employ such tricks and means, the mere thought of which should bring a blush to the face of any person, be they Armenian or anyone else," -  wrote Chavchavadze.

 

Well, fine, let them talk; after all, every people has its own national mentality that distinguishes it from others. However, this circumstance is not as harmless as it seems at first glance. The fact is, such conceit has had quite tragic consequences. Thus, the historical research of Armenian scholars, proving the superiority of Armenians over neighboring peoples, serves to substantiate territorial claims. Wikipedia is filled with false stories (namely, stories of Armenian pseudo-historians) about the Armenian people as the most ancient on earth, and they bypass the well-known historical fact that the Armenians came to Asia Minor from Thrace, moving to Phrygia, and then settled in Urartu, and today they present Urartu as an ancient Armenian state.

 

There are countless similar historical fabrications about Armenia. For example, in Wikipedia, regarding the Treaty of Turkmanchay, an Armenian pseudo-historian writes: "According to the Treaty of Turkmanchay, the territories of Eastern Armenia—the Erivan and Nakhichevan Khanates—were ceded to Russia." In fact, the actual text of the Treaty of Turkmanchay between Russia and Persia of February 10, 1828, contains not a single word about Eastern Armenia:

Article III

His Majesty the Shah of Persia, in his own name and on behalf of his heirs and successors, cedes to the Russian Empire both the Erivan Khanate on this and the other side of the Araks River, and the Nakhichevan Khanate, in full possession. As a consequence of this cession, His Majesty the Shah promises, no later than six months from the signing of this treaty, to surrender to the Russian authorities all archives and public documents relating to the administration of both aforementioned Khanates. (Treaty of Turkmenchay (msu.ru) ) (5)

 

Hence the conclusion: if you want to know the truth about Armenia, don't look for it in the accounts of Armenian historians.

 

1. Was there a Greater Armenia? https://alikbahshi.blogspot.com/2026/07/was-there-great-armenia_01974081286.html 

2. "Greater Armenia" or the Great Lie. https://alikbahshi.livejournal.com/91885.html

3. On the issue of genocide, or why Armenia is wary of the court.

    https://alikbahshi.livejournal.com/44394.html

4. Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan. https://alikbahshi.livejournal.com/13967.html 

5. Stop lying!    https://alikbahshi.blogspot.com/2026/07/stop-lying.html

 

04.02.2023