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At least open the ARF archives so that the new generation doesn't remain "moronic" either. Atanesyan
Vahram Atanesyan, a former member of the Supreme Council of Armenia and member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, wrote on his Facebook page:
"When the combatant movement in Western Armenia entered an organizational phase at the beginning of the last century, Russia provoked the Tatars in the Caucasus. And the ARF had to concentrate all its forces there for two years to organize self-defense. And what? When the tsarist government became practically convinced that the Armenians of the Caucasus, led by the ARF, could resist, it fabricated the "ARF case." It arrested almost all prominent ARF members, threw them into prison, exiled them to Siberia, and closed their newspapers.
The intelligentsia was also not spared from persecution, including Hovhannes Tumanyan, whose trial dragged on for years. Thus, tsarist Russia helped Sultan Turkey. Before that, Armenian armed groups were being attacked on the Russian-Turkish border both from the rear by Russian soldiers and from the front by Turkish gendarmes. At least open the ARF archives so that the new generation "doesn't be a moron."
