Alik Bakhshi
Armenians – A History of Betrayal
According to Herodotus, Armenians migrated to Asia Minor from
Thrace and settled in the state of Urartu. After Urartu was sacked by Babylon,
the Armenians settled in the area known as the Armenian Highlands, which became
the site of a long conflict between the Roman Empire and Persia. Because the
Armenians alternately supported one side or the other, the Romans considered
this act treason and deported them deep into the empire, to Cilicia. Since
then, Armenians have dispersed throughout the Middle East, forming compact
pockets of settlement. Apparently, this circumstance was the reason why the
Dashnaktsutyun party, founded in 1890 in Tiflis by Armenian nationalists,
considered Cilicia to be part of the non-existent empire of Greater Armenia (1,
2, 3), which is depicted on their map as nothing less than the mistress of the
seas:
Incidentally, history knows nothing of the historical periods
in which Greater Armenia existed, carefully concealed by the Dashnaks, much
less any information about Armenian seafarers. What is known is that Armenians
have lived and continue to live across a vast territory: Turkey, Lebanon,
Syria, Iran, the Caucasus, Crimea, and, more recently, the Rostov region, where
Armenians now outnumber Cossacks. Presumably, the territory of the Don Cossacks
will eventually also become part of Greater Armenia.
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 against the advancing
Russian army. The Dashnaks carried out a brutal massacre of the unarmed local
population, aiming to sow panic and clear the territory for a future fictitious
state. However, this plan turned tragic for the Armenians of Turkey. The
Turkish government, in order to secure its rear, was forced to deport the
Armenians deep into the empire. This time, the Armenians found themselves among
the Turkic population fleeing the 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 continue to flourish
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 in the former Irivan Khanate, but it never became independent,
contrary to the Dashnaks' hopes. True, the Dashnaks tried to make their
presence felt by organizing terrorist attacks in the Moscow metro, blowing up
ducklings among passengers, but the authorities managed to identify the
organizers and perpetrators and firmly nip their terrorist activities in the
bud.
The Dashnaktsutyun party revived with the weakening of the
central government and the collapse of the USSR, which resulted in the 30-year
Karabakh conflict, which ended in defeat for the Armenians. Once again,
Armenians feel betrayed by Moscow, accusing the Russians of failing to provide
military support. One wonders why Russia, sacrificing its lucrative economic
relations with Turkey and Azerbaijan, should have helped 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 did not officially provide military support to
the Karabakh Armenians; 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 on earth
would Russia help the Armenians of Karabakh, let alone fight Azerbaijan in
Armenia's stead? Nonsense, indeed! Not only was Russia mired in lies in the war
with Ukraine, but it also found itself embroiled in a situation orchestrated by
the Armenians, which could not have been 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 deaths of civilians, known as the Khojaly genocide. However,
subsequent events, in which the Kremlin saw Armenia as responsible, forced a
reconsideration of the traditionally closer relations with it 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, otherwise the Dashnaks' rare and brutal
extermination of the local population would have assumed the scale of a
catastrophe no less than the genocide of European Jews. To the credit of the
Turks, it should be noted that having defeated the Dashnak armed forces
detachments, they prevented a mass retaliatory massacre, thereby preserving the
Armenian diaspora in Azerbaijan. (4)
I will give 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 remarkable adaptation to new conditions, encouraged
the resettlement of Armenians in the new colonial territories with the aim of
diluting the hostile Turkic population with Christians. Just as in the
Caucasus, the Russians saw the 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 ones. The Armenians displaced
the Turkic merchants; the owners of shops, numerous stalls, restaurants, tailor
shops, buyers and resellers, and the keepers of the newly established beer
halls and tenement houses were Armenians. Naturally, a significant number of
Armenians were represented by 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's 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 Tsarist rule,
the Turkestan National Government 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 became apparent: 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 it was precisely this kind of action that sparked
the rise of the Basmachi movement, which the Russians had to fight until the
1930s. Interestingly, the massacres in Baku and Kokand coincided completely –
March 1918. This leads to one conclusion: wherever the Armenian diaspora is
present, the extremely nationalist ideology of the Dashnaktsutyun party is also
latent, for 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 "Greater Armenia," and there is only one explanation: bloodlust
and terror as accompanying and integral indicators of Dashnaktsutyun's
activities.
After their defeat in Karabakh,
the Armenian Nazis lost their credibility, 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 renounce Nazi ideology, which has been
the source of misery and suffering for Armenians and Turks throughout the 20th
century and a quarter of the 21st century.
Of course, the Russians, who
created a state for the Armenians that they never had, have the right to
consider Armenia's actions treacherous and ungrateful. However, what did the
Russians expect if they did good not at their own expense, but at the expense
of others, while using the Nazi ideology of another people as a tool for
achieving purely selfish goals?
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
33b.ru Website as a Reflection of the Overall Media Picture.
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
June 26, 2026