Armenians – A History of Betrayal

 

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