Political scientist Armen Ayvazyan has published an excerpt from an article on his Facebook page.
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Loss of living in 1915 The five-year survival area of Armenian ethnos included the entire Armenian highlands, that is, historical Armenia. In terms of gospeciative, this large, more than 350,000 square meters. The area with the km looks like a giant fortress that has a number of defense areas, each of which is able to provide its defense on its own. The capture of one or more of the defense regions did not mean the capture of Armenia, as the Armenian forces centered in other regions have always been able to regret and caught the opportunity to switch and rejoin the occupied territory of Armenia.
Later, in the 15th-19th centuries, the Armenian Armed Forces were mainly destroyed and removed only in separate mountainous areas), Armenia's main survival factor in Armenia was the majority of the Armenian element. As a result of Mongolian and Turkmenistan or Turkish wars, Armenians were destroyed (sometimes almost uninhabited).
The states and provinces of Armenia were not just an area, but a five-thousand living space and homeland. The first terrible consequence of the genocide is that they have alienated the Armenians from their living space. Strategically, the loss of living space has deprived Armenians of a number of regions of defense. There is a handful of Armenia left, just a last single castle.
He has no other place to retreat, forces. Armenia has no right to no military defeat anymore. Otherwise, it will be Armenia and, consequently, the end of the Armenian nation.
Our cultural losses are cultural losses and countless. These are not only separate and separate churches, various architectural unique buildings and monuments, but also for castles, cities and villages, but also tens of thousands of books, which summarized the genius and knowledge of the people.
Only one speaking fact. Today, there is about a lot of Armenian manuscript in the world, how destroyed during the Genocide. Precious information and secrets were destroyed, lost, depriving us of the spiritual heritage created by our ancestors, cutting us out of their minds and spirit.
The confiscation and robbery of the Western Armenians of the Genocide forced the surviving masses for decades, not a national team enriching and strengthening and strengthening them, but not to ensure the basic physical existence of their families.
Psychological troubled, the loss of living space deprived the Armenians of the national and handmade national symbols of daily contact, thus eliminating the possibility of the normal spiritual development of the Armenian nation.
At the same time, the genocide has caused inferiority in many Armenians, skepticism over the future of the nation, in some cases even self-patience, rejection of national interests and values.
During the Genocide of the people, organized communities, structures and leadership, not only human masses, but a nation united and organized around its centuries-old structures.
Communities, churches, schools, many and various Armenian organizations and organizations, finally the leadership of the Armenian nation, including the political, intellectual and cultural team. Human masses are no more people without their uniting structures, but individuals.
After the genocide, only scattered around the world, only a small part of Diaspora Armenians was able to reconsider its newly established national structures. The rest of the Armenians who took refuge abroad were involved in foreign structures and gradually assimilated. Armenians in Soviet Armenia were also organized around Navotic and ideology and cultivated significantly, (especially the political and intellectual elite).
The destruction of traditional Armenian structures was one of the objective factors that prevented the fragments of the Armenians of the Armenians in a single structure uniting the Diaspora.
Human losses (in the 20th century human losses in the 20th century) are also necessary to simply imagine the terrible consequences of continuous disasters plainted not only the Armenian Genocide, but also in the last century.
The casualties caused by these disasters have affected not only the number of our nation, but also on its collective quality (especially in the Armenian masses, to the so-called "Psychology" for individual's personal gain.).
1894 Until 1922, the Armenian Genocide committed in four stages, killed more than 2,000,000 Armenians (about 300,000 Armenians killed. The small Armenian Soviet republic declared in the central part of Eastern Armenia, enjoying a 70-year period of relative peace and stability, has been able to make significant economic progress.
But in addition to the human losses caused by the genocide, Armenians also sacrificed great victims in Soviet Armenia. 1920-21 Almost the entire Armenian officer was destroyed in the independence during the independence, and in the 1930s. The flower of the Armenian intelligentsia, thousands of ordinary citizens, went victim to the Bolshevik darkness.
1941-1945 About 300,000 people killed about 600,000 Armenians who took part in the war. To imagine how terrible for the small number of Armenian nation, the United States and the United Kingdom gave almost exactly the same number of killed in World War II.
1949 The deportees organized from Armenia caused thousands of new victims. The unprecedented favorable period of stable and economic development was from 1954 to 1988. The fallen years.
However, since 1988, this recent conversion of Armenia's last cleverness was converted to the survival of the Armenian nation. 1988 The Spitak earthquake took 25-30 thousand lives and completely destroyed about one-third of Armenia, including the largest Armenian cities after Yerevan, Gyumri and Vanadzor. About a dozen thousand Armenians were killed in the Karabakh war.
The emigration accompanied by all this, which has not stopped and continues, has already taken 1-1.5 million people from Armenia.
Unfortunately, a long period of genocide was followed by a long period of time, during which Armenians were not allowed to freely affect his losses to think about healing ways. The most important thing is that Soviet Armenia was not the form of Armenian statehood (no matter how they tried to attribute such functions), other national values and goals, a part of the most powerful empire, with its cultivated gradually Russian-Russian and intellectual elites. Soviet Armenia was not able to overcome the consequences of the Genocide, including the reconsideration of Armenian native territories (be in the eastern or Western Armenia), which could only ensure the safe development of the Armenian nation in case of possible collapse of the Soviet Empire.
It was not resolved and could not solve the other, continuous strengthening of the Genocide, and now the "white massacre". It was possible to fight the organization on the restoration of national rights much later, only in the 1960s. Starting.
That loss of time was even dear. Tens of thousands of Armenians sacrificed the white massacres, and the enemy strengthened his position.
It is very natural and understandable that such incredibly territorial, spiritual, cultural, material and human losses should have affected the general mental and moral potential of the nation. However, this is the same painful facts we need to inspire strength and faith, because it would probably not be able to endure such strikes and misleading the world.
So our nation also has unprofessional endurance and a will to live as soon as possible, despite all the loses, sometimes independence voluntarily.
Armen Ayvazyan, the strategic consequences of the Armenian Genocide. - "Azg" daily, # 076, 24.04.2002.
