Հայկ Նազարյան - Ճառ #14 - «Հոսանք»-ի Ժողովում - անգլերեն ենթագրերով (04-10-2025)
03:00:00 04.10.2025
Speech #14
Assembly
We often point out and analyze our country’s external and internal problems so that we can find the right solutions. We have spoken about details, but this time I would like to look at the broader picture so we can have a more accurate understanding of our situation. I believe it is no longer a secret to many conscious Armenians—especially after the treacherous 44-day war—that we Armenians, for at least the last 200 years, have been living inside a Russian–Turkish cage. We continue to live in that trap and seem unable to get out because a great lie keeps being spread: that lie, year after year, makes us more dependent on foreign powers and generally more servile. In short, that lie is that we Armenians cannot ensure our security and defend ourselves from the Turks without Russia. Seeing our position on the geopolitical stage, at first glance that may seem logical to many, because Armenia is surrounded by Turks—enemies who thirst for Armenian blood. However, this is not only illogical, it is completely contrary to the truth.
Of course, from this lie springs the false idea that Russia has been and remains our strategic ally. There was a time in my life—before the treacherous 44-day war—when I too believed that. I had my doubts about the Kremlin because I knew that Jews still have great influence over Russian media and finance. It is an obvious fact that a quarter of Russia’s billionaires are Jewish, and that is only the official number. I also long knew that communism was created by the Jew Karl Marx, that the Bolshevik revolution was led by Jews and financed by capitalist Jewish interests from Wall Street. During the Soviet era a large share of high officials were Jews. Considering all these facts, it is hard not to accept that Jews still have considerable influence over post-Soviet Russia.
I have always been against the Soviet Union and communism, but even knowing these facts I naively thought it might be possible to form an alliance with Russia against Azerbaijan, and in the future against Turkey. I believed that today’s Russia was not a continuation of the Soviet Union, but later I understood that the Russian Federation is not only the continuation of the Soviet Union, but that the Soviet Union itself was largely the continuation of Tsarist Russia. It became clear to me that Russian policy toward Armenia has essentially not changed since the beginning, when the Russian Empire sank its claws into our region. I saw that Russian and Jewish policies toward Armenia coincide. In fact, their attitude toward Armenian statehood gradually deteriorated, and a clear proof of this is that after Russia’s incursions into our region, the historic territories inhabited by Armenians steadily shrank.
Digging a little deeper, I understood that the formation of Greater Armenia contradicts not only Turkish and Zionist interests, but also Russian ones. The Kremlin knows we are the rightful masters of this region, and the establishment of a large Armenian state would only obstruct its imperial ambitions. In reality, no empire wants a powerful national state on its doorstep that could threaten its influence.
That is why Russia has almost always betrayed us and struck us in the back when we waged liberation wars against the Turks, despite the fact that before the 1921 Lenin–Kemal agreement they had fought each other thirteen times.
For us Armenians it really doesn’t matter how bitterly Turkey, Russia, and the Zionists quarrel or how fiercely they fight and slaughter each other, because they will once again unite and form an alliance against our independent state when they see Armenia trying to rise and become a force in this region.
We must stop looking at everything superficially and thinking that a 300 year old empire like Russia can change its fundamental stance just because, for example, criminal Russian citizens were arrested in Azerbaijan. That is simply ridiculous. Even the closest friends or spouses sometimes quarrel.
States like Russia do not take such simplistic, one-dimensional approaches to geopolitics. Only politically naïve nations without centuries of independent statehood—like ours—can be deceived by such events.
Anti-Armenianism has always united the vile forces of Russia, Turkey, and Zionism, and it always will, and we must not forget this, because none of them benefit from a genuinely sovereign and independent Armenia being formed in this region. Let us stop living with false hopes that Armenia can reap great and lasting benefits from disputes among them.
Let us face reality and understand that only by relying on our own strength and preparing for determined struggle can we resist these predators. No matter how much we try to ignore this truth, we will be forced into that struggle, as our freedom fighters went into it about 35 years ago. The sooner we realize this, the better we will be able to withstand the coming storm.
It is interesting and ironic that the more the Russians betray us, the more a segment of our compatriots becomes convinced that the Russians are our allies and that without them the Turks will annihilate us. It is ironic because precisely due to Russian policy the miserable, servile, and well-known saying spread: “either the Russian boot or the Turkish yatagan.” The reality is that by relying on the Russian boot we came closer to the Turkish yatagan.
Our movement’s stance on this matter—which should be the stance of every Armenian nationalist—is very simple: “neither the Turkish bloody yatagan nor the Russian filthy boot, only an independent, united, and powerful Armenia.” Some, even many, may consider this stance “unrealistic” and “romantic.” But in the last 30 years we have seen what the “realistic” and “pragmatic” approaches of traitorous neo-Bolsheviks and November criminals brought us. We saw how their defeatist and anti-national stance reduced us from a victorious position to a humiliating and degrading state. Our freedom fighters, who 34 years ago liberated Artsakh through struggle and sacrifice, would today unquestionably hold the only national and pro-Armenian position we defend. In reality, what we say is the most realistic and sensible stance for a small nation that wants to preserve and develop its independent statehood in this ruthless world.
I began to understand all this gradually months after returning from the war and especially after the disgraceful 2021 elections. It became very clear to me that phrases like “the Russians are our strategic allies” and “without the Russians the Turks will annihilate us” are big lies that in the last 200 years have kept us chained in the Russian–Turkish cage. That Russian–Turkish alliance or cooperation does everything to keep the Armenian freedom-loving eagle trapped in that cage—preventing it from spreading its wings, getting out, and freeing itself from that servile state.
When we look carefully at our last 100 years of history, we see an interesting and very important pattern: we fought for and won our independence when the Russian factor was not very active, or absent altogether, and we lost when it was quite active or played a leading role.
For example: in May 1918 during our heroic battles we gained victories, and at that time Russia was in great turmoil because a year earlier Tsarist Russia had collapsed and the Bolsheviks had come to power. Two years later, in the autumn of 1920, in the war for our independence against Kemalist forces we were defeated, because on that front our army included Armenian officers who had graduated from Russian military academies and who were either direct agents of Russia or agents of its influence. Let us not forget that Bolshevik Russia financed and armed the Kemalists against Armenia. If Nzhdeh had not been in Syunik fighting the anti-Bolshevik war against the criminal Red Army, Eastern Armenia would have suffered the same fate as Western Armenia.
About seventy years after those events the Karabakh liberation war began, and we successfully concluded it on May 12, 1994, because the Soviet Union had just collapsed—leaving Russia in a very difficult state. Thanks to that we were able to catch our breath and achieve victory, but unfortunately that victory was not consolidated on paper because of the traitorous neo-Bolsheviks operating in Armenia.
However, 26 years after that we were treacherously defeated in the so-called 44-day war of 2020, because over the last 25 years Russia’s positions in this region had been strengthened again, as had been the case in 1920. It must be emphasized that without Russia’s permission—and even support—NATO member Turkey could not have conducted such military operations in Artsakh together with Azerbaijan, and this is one hundred percent a fact. Whoever does not accept this is simply cut off from reality.
Therefore, we can draw the following conclusion: when the Russian factor is absent and we fight with a spirit of liberation, we can defeat the Turks, but when it is present and our army lacks that liberating spirit and is dominated by pro-Russian politicians, generals, and a fake opposition, we are disgracefully defeated. We suffer such catastrophic outcomes because the Kremlin and its collaborators in Armenia treacherously stab us in the back, after which Russian troops always arrive as “saviors” and “peacekeepers.”
Let those who continue to insist that without Russia we cannot fight and defeat the Turks remember this fact, because history and reality show us exactly the opposite.
It is promising that after the 2020 war many began to see this reality and no longer trust or place their hopes for security in Russia. It seems a polarization has begun on this question—one part understands this truth while the other remains blind. In any case, the important thing is that the majority of youth are no longer deceived by Russian propaganda, and this is a good sign that the Russian–Turkish cage is beginning to crack.
Day by day it becomes clear to all conscious Armenians that our state stands on the brink of total security, political and economic collapse and the final loss of our independence, which of course concerns every dignified Armenian who does not live only to sing, dance, and feast. However, if we go deeper we will see that the coming economic, social, and political collapse will not be limited to Armenia but will occur worldwide, as during the Great Depression of 1929. This time it will be greater because the world is more interconnected than ever. In any case, the coming Great Depression is inevitable because this rotten system of the modern world is built on false and destructive neo-Bolshevik, liberal-democratic, and capitalist principles. It is only natural that it will collapse under the weight of its own lies, as we have repeatedly emphasized.
This means that all great powers will decline, but for us Armenians the collapse of Russia matters most, because until that happens we cannot carry out serious, national, and radical changes in Armenia and build a true national state.
As I said, in 1917 when Tsarist Russia collapsed we gained our First Republic. Seventy years later, in 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed and thanks to that we restored our independence and liberated Artsakh, though the job, unfortunately, remained unfinished because Russia quickly recovered.
But it is said that the Creator loves a trilogy, so let the upcoming collapse of the Russian Federation be the third and final one so that we as a nation have the opportunity to get out of the miserable Russian–Turkish cage that keeps us in servitude. I have no doubt that the final collapse of the current world order and with that the Russian empire will happen soon—it is simply a matter of time. Those who doubt this should remember that no one, even in their wildest imagination, ever expected to see the Soviet Union’s destruction in their lifetime.
Let us hope that, just as the Soviet war against Afghanistan internally depleted the Kremlin’s resources and eventually led to the Soviet Union’s collapse, so too will the Russo–Ukrainian war do the same to the Russian Federation, so that we can once again rise and fight the terrorist state of Azerbaijan without hindrance, as we did in the 1990s—even though then too Moscow presented obstacles. This is extremely important for our struggle for independence, because it would be our last chance to break out of the Russian–Turkish cage and create a pure Armenian state.
Very difficult days await us, but even in those hard times we must be able to see the positive sides and the window of opportunity so that we can use chaotic times properly for the benefit of our Fatherland. If we remain reasonable, do not lose hope, and are always ready to fight for our independent state at all costs, only then will everything be fine. Only then will we be able to set our country back on the right path and finally fulfill our historic sacred mission.
— Hayk Nazaryan
October 04, 2025
