By glorifying terrorists, Armenia turned fascism into a state policy

    Propaganda of fascism and terrorism as well as intolerance towards other peoples and nations have been recently observed in some countries. Recently, UN General Assembly adopted a resolution entitled  "Combating neo-Nazism and its other forms, which serve to promote and glorify fascism, racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance". I want to point out that, unfortunately, this resolution was adopted too late, it should have been adopted several years ago.

  The resolution was welcomed by Azerbaijan too since multiculturalism and tolerance are preserved at the state level here. Tolerance and multiculturalism of the Azerbaijani people has allowed them to find a common language with representatives of different nationalities and faiths for centuries. As the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev said, Azerbaijan is an island of peace, stability, cooperation and mutual understanding between peoples and faiths. In today's brutal world, when nationalism, xenophobia and chauvinism as well as anti-Semitism rage in many countries of Europe and Arab countries,  there have never been such facts in Azerbaijan since all national minorities and the Jewish community have always been an integral part of Azerbaijani society .

It is a well-known fact that Azerbaijan’s oil made a crucial contribution to the victory in the Second World War. The Azerbaijani people also made a great contribution to the victory over fascism and suffered many casualties. Azerbaijan became a shelter for numerous refugees and internally displaced persons in this war, most of whom were Jews, including members of my family, who were saved thanks to humanity and tolerance of the Azerbaijani people.

     Political scientist Moshe Becker pointed out that "in 1998, the Armenian political scientist, Professor Igor Muradyan published an article in the newspaper ‘Voice of Armenia’, in which he openly promoted the Nazi ideology. According to Muradyan, it turns out that the Jewish-Armenian confrontation is a conflict between the Semites and the Aryans. Accusing Jews of the so-called "genocide" of Armenians, he tries to prove that the people and the state of Israel stand behind the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. Four years later, the book "National System" by Romen Yepiskopian was published in Yerevan. It was issued by the official association of Armenian writers. In this "scientific work" the author not only accuses the Jews of all the evils of Armenians, but at the same time denies the most terrible page of the Jewish people – the Holocaust, calling it "Jewish invention to defame the Aryans".  As usual there is a substitution of concepts.

   This can be called a time bomb because  young people who grew up on such an ideology will continue the tasks of fascism and terrorism in the future. The Armenian government financed the publication of a book entitled "Garegin Nzhdeh and His Teaching" and production of a multi-million dollars budget film about Nzhdeh. Armenia is spending the US and Russia’s financial aid to promote fascism and terrorism. This state policy of Armenia is an example of extreme disrespect for millions of people who died in the struggle against fascism in Second World War, their relatives and veterans, especially citizens of the former USSR, who have exceptional merits in the victory over fascism. Did the Armenians have no other heroes than the Nazis Nzhdeh and Dro?

  The policy of glorification of terrorism is being carried out at the state level in Armenia along with fascism. If you take a close look at terrorism, you can see that there are very few differences between glorification, intolerance and extremist ideology.

   As the political scientist Moshe Becker correctly said: "Created in 1975, the Armenian secret army of liberation of Armenia – ASALA – became  a worthy follower of the ideas of anti-Semitism and anti-Turkism. Its goal is "liberation" of traditional Armenian lands, payment of reparations by the Turkish government and public recognition by the Turkish government of the so-called "genocide" of 1915. In 1980, Akop Akopyan (Abu Jihad), who was born in Iraq, became the head of ASALA. Akopyan took an active part in the murder of Israel ‘s Olympic team members in 1972 in Munich. The logic of nationalism has led the Armenian chauvinists into the ranks of an international terrorist alliance condemned by the world community."

  In his recent statement, spokesman for the  Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry Hikmat Hajiyev mentioned interesting facts: " ASALA terrorist Varuzhan Garabedian, who committed a terrorist act at Orly airport in France in 1983, was mysteriously released from a prison in France in 2000 and then awarded in Armenia. Varuzhan Garabedian is currently one of the criminal supporters of the Armenian military dictatorship regime.

  Another example given by the spokesman concerns Murad Topalyan, one of the leaders of the Armenian National Committee of America. Hikmat Hajiyev said: "Having close ties with the political leadership of the United States, Topalyan organized and managed terrorist acts in the United States through ASALA. After his terrorist acts were proven, this person was given a minimum sentence and is now acting again as one of the leaders of the Armenian National Committee of America, maintains close contacts with the political circles of the United States, carries out lobbying activities, conducts anti-Azerbaijani propaganda. Unfortunately, Murad Topalyan, like his other supporters, is in the same row of "national heroes" of Armenia." Is this not a signal to stop a terrorist who has made his way to the US political circles? Or America is waiting for him to organize new terrorist acts there?

Peter Tase

  Russian author Olga Sukhova also touched upon this problem and expressed indignation of Russian city Armavir’s residents regarding the installation of acommemorative plaque to the Armenian leader Nzhdeh, who cooperated with the Nazis. “Every year the city activists demand to remove the Nzhdeh board plaque.” 

In 1941, Nzhdeh took Germany's side and joined the "Armenian National Council" set up in Berlin in 1942 and called upon his fellow countrymen to fight against the Soviet Union. Nzhdeh was sentenced to 25 years for cooperation with the fascists. But the Armenian fascist leader did not come out of prison and died of a serious illness in 1955. And 57 years later a memorial plaque to this man was installed in Armavir in the territory of an Armenian church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary,” the author writes.

   The results of Armenian nationalists` activities to advocate fascism and terrorism led to the fact that in recent years, especially in many countries of the world, Armenia and Armenian nationalists are associated with terrorism and fascism.

 the Armenian President took part in the official opening ceremony of a military and sports school named after the "national hero" of Armenia Monte Melkonyan.

   I would like to shed light on the personality of this national "hero" of Armenia, whose name has been given to schools and streets. Melkonyan was a world-famous terrorist who was a member of the terrorist organization of ASALA. Melkonyan carried out acts of terrorism not only in Azerbaijan, but also in such countries of Europe as Italy and Greece. In November 1985, Melkonyan was arrested in Paris and sentenced to 6 years in prison for illegal possession of weapons and forgery of documents. Unexpectedly in 1989, he was released and deported to South Yemen. In 1991, the terrorist arrived in Azerbaijan's Nagorno-Karabakh  region, where he took an active part in the massacres of the elderly, women and children of ethnic Azerbaijanis. In June 1993, the bloodthirsty Armenian terrorist was eliminated by Azerbaijani servicemen during military operations.