Perhaps one of the biggest lies that, unfortunately...

02:48:00 21.02.2026

Perhaps one of the biggest lies that, unfortunately, I continue to hear is that "Armenia flourished during the Soviet years” or that “without the Soviets, Armenia would not have developed,” or other similarly absurd ideas. They think that because various things were built on Armenia’s territory during the Soviet era — such as the nuclear power plant, the Matenadaran, and the Yerevan metro — this means the Soviet Union was not, overall, an evil for us.

First, let us not forget the fact that the so-called “rise” they speak of took place after the Second World War, when the Soviet Union, thanks to enormous financial and military support from the West, won the war and became a superpower. Let us also not forget that many of the well-built, high-quality structures were largely built by German prisoners of war. Let us not forget that in that catastrophic war, hundreds of thousands of young Armenian men were killed or maimed for the sake of Moscow, which in reality was a second genocide for us. Finally, let us not forget the hundreds of thousands of hardworking, dignified, nationalist Armenian intellectuals who were persecuted during the Soviet era, after which what remains is the trash we see today in our academies, media, and political arena.

But even if all of this were false, the claim that “Armenia flourished during the Soviet era” is absolute nonsense, because without the Bolsheviks’ massive financial and military support to the Kemalists, we would never have lost our independence, and Turkey would never have become a powerful state. If traitorous Bolsheviks had not operated in Armenia and if the Kremlin had not saved Atatürk, we would not have lost the 1920 war against the Kemalists and would most likely have had an independent, united, powerful Armenia. This is the most important fact that those Russophile, pro-Soviet scoundrels never mention when spreading such babble. The Soviets did not allow a powerful Armenian state to be created, and afterward they built various things in territories they considered their own. That was done for their empire, not for the Armenian nation. All of this is like someone breaking your legs, then giving you crutches, and you thanking them for the crutches instead of accusing them of breaking your legs.

Are we really such a foolish, weak, and useless nation that white Turks or other foreigners had to rule over us in order for us to be able to build a state? Our compatriots speak so much about the fortress-city of Ani and about Tigran the Great. Was this all just fake patriotism or were they never real patriots in the first place? What kind of servile, pitiful, and indeed, yes, traitorous mentality is this? Our compatriots’ have been brainwashed and their souls poisoned, and most of them do not even realize it. That is why words such as “struggle,” “independence,” “glory,” and “victory” have become alien to many. That is why, when a movement like ours emerges and promotes such ideas, it becomes incomprehensible to a significant portion of people, because the majority only wants to crawl into someone’s elses protection like a freeloading coward and merely exist like a slave.

This is how these neo-Bolshevik traitors have raised and educated our people for more than three generations, and that is why we have reached this miserable state. Our entire mindset, psychology, and worldview have been distorted. Therefore, whoever continues to spread such absurd ideas — that without the Soviet Union Armenia would not have progressed — is either an ignorant fool, a petty scoundrel, or simply a neo-Bolshevik traitor.

Only a fundamental national revolution and a full Armenian rebirth can heal Armenia from this destructive cancer that is eating away at and destroying our nation from within. Then the time will come again when foreigners will look to us to see how a truly just and flourishing state is built — and not the other way around.