Hayk Nazaryan - Speech #9 - At the meeting - with English subtitles (21-06-2025)
03:00:00 21.06.2025
Speech #9
At the meeting
In the previous meeting, I briefly spoke about how our enemies launched a war against our independent statehood in the early 1920s. I also spoke about the events before and after that war. I noted that these events are extremely important to understand well, so that we may fully comprehend our present, since they contain many interesting similarities and parallels to our current reality. I spoke about how the Bolsheviks of that time committed acts of internal betrayal and stabbed us in the back. Today, I would like to speak about how a similar phenomenon occurred during the 2020 war.
Of course, we actually know very little about the 44-day treacherous war of 2020, since even five years after the war, there has still been no scholarly or historical analysis conducted on a state level to determine what really happened during those chaotic days. In my opinion, this is being done deliberately, so that the Armenian public remains unaware of the nature and extent of the betrayals that occurred during the war—by the government, the military leadership, and the so-called political “opposition.”
However, one doesn’t need to be a historian or even dig very deep to understand that there was a major act of internal betrayal committed in that war by all three of these factions, because they all shared the same goal: to do everything possible to ensure Armenia’s defeat. And that is exactly what happened. It seems as though we entered that war not to win, but deliberately to lose. We only need to take a look and lightly analyze various public statements and materials that surfaced during that time to see that this betrayal is absolutely real—not a product of our imagination.
Many have spoken about the government's betrayal, such as why, for example, Artsakh was not recognized or unified with Armenia during the war, why the Armenian armed forces were not fully mobilized, and other such critical questions. Many are also aware of the betrayal by the generals—how they turned the army into a mess of disorganization and abandonment, spreading chaos and despair. When I returned from the war, all of this was already clear to me. But then, especially after the disgraceful elections of 2021, I also realized that our so-called political “opposition” had committed just as much betrayal as the government and the generals. Together, they all stabbed our army in the back, because they are, in essence, neo-Bolsheviks serving the same anti-Armenian interests of the Kremlin.
Naturally, I cannot go into detail at this moment or in this forum, but I am convinced that once a proper analysis is carried out in the future, we could write several volumes on the conspiracies that took place during those days. After such an analysis, I am certain we will come to the conclusion that the 44-day war was the most conspiratorial war in modern history. I want to highlight just a few important facts to prove that the “opposition” betrayed Artsakh and our army just as much as the leadership and the military elite. This is extremely important if we are to shatter the illusion that the “opposition” is truly fighting against the government.
Let us start with the fact that the current fake opposition continues to spread the idea that it was the Armenian government’s fault for starting the 2020 war, claiming that “the war could have been avoided.” According to them, the war began because of failed diplomacy. They say this with such confidence, as if they are fortune-tellers or possess a magic wand that can conduct diplomacy outside the bounds of reality. But war is unpredictable, and no matter how skilled or wise your diplomacy is, it changes little when your aggressive enemy neighbor is arming to the teeth and is determined to resolve everything by force.
Therefore, we can conclude that this accusation by the opposition is simply a treacherous statement against the Armenian state. Because no matter how much you oppose the current anti-national and anti-Armenian government, saying such things only harms Armenian statehood—not Pashinyan and his incompetent clique. It’s insane that Pashinyan not only accepts the opposition’s accusation, but goes even further, saying that we’ve been at fault since 1988 because we raised the issue of Artsakh back then. In other words, the fake opposition utters one treacherous statement, and the man sitting in the prime minister’s chair, instead of refuting it, replies with an even more treacherous one—strengthening the opposition’s false narrative.
This accusation is also absurd because the war was inevitable due to one simple reason: after our military victory on May 12, 1994—a victory we never celebrated as a national holiday—we failed to politically cement it on paper by forcing Baku to recognize Artsakh as an inseparable part of Armenia. That is why the outbreak of a new war was unavoidable; it was only a matter of time, no matter how much we tried to avoid it, because we left unfinished the brilliant work of our freedom fighters in the 1990s. Any politician—whether Poghos Poghosyan or Petros Petrosyan—who claims otherwise is simply a liar, an opportunist, and a scoundrel.
Another ridiculous claim is that the government is not only blamed for starting the war, but also for not ending it earlier. Of course, we know that when they speak of “ending the war,” what they really mean is surrender. As I’ve said before, a hundred years ago the Bolsheviks were more open and clear about their intentions. Today’s neo-Bolsheviks act more covertly. They disguise themselves in nationalist colors and use coded language. In short, they are more cunning and deceitful than their traitorous Bolshevik ancestors. They are angry that we did not surrender during the first week of the war and did not comply with Moscow’s demands—instead of being angry about losing Artsakh. At best, they only cared about a few regions of Artsakh and didn’t care about the rest. In the first week of the war, instead of calling for resistance and crushing the enemy’s marauding forces, they were talking about raising the white flag. If that is not betrayal, I don’t know what is.
If our opposition were truly national and cared about the interests of our statehood, it would blame Azerbaijan for starting the war—regardless of how much they hate Pashinyan. They would accuse Pashinyan not of failing to surrender sooner, but of surrendering at all and leading our army to a disgraceful defeat. That is to say, the one responsible for the war is the tyrant of Baku, and the ones responsible for the shameful defeat are Pashinyan, the politicians who collaborated with him, the generals, and the fake opposition. I call them all the “November Criminals.”
The current fake opposition, which is part of the fifth column, of course does not say such things. Together with the government, they merely propagate the propaganda of the Russo-Turkish-Zionist axis, trying to inject a sense of guilt and a defeatist mindset into the population of defeated Armenia. They do this because a people consumed by guilt and defeatism are easier to control and become more servile. Their propaganda is so well spread that it even seems natural to many citizens, and some may even think that spreading such false theses is somehow patriotic.
When talking about the war, the opposition often refers to the 44-day treacherous war as a “disaster,” a “catastrophe,” or a “tragedy.” But describing a war fought for Artsakh and our independence with such words is a grave error and unacceptable. Massacres, earthquakes, genocides—those are tragedies, where unarmed or defenseless people are slaughtered by enemies or forces of nature. A conscious and armed struggle against the enemy can never be a tragedy, no matter how great the defeat. They call this war a tragedy, but at the same time refer to World War II as the “Great Patriotic War”—a war in which hundreds of thousands of Armenians were forcibly sent to die for the interests of the Soviets, capitalism, and international Zionism—where over twenty times more Armenians perished than in our recent war. This simply shows their hypocrisy and anti-national mentality.
However, this incompetent government and shameless opposition fully agree with the absurd idea that we can somehow strengthen our independence and bring peace to our Fatherland through defeat and surrender. They think peace depends solely on Armenia—that if we sincerely desire peace and conduct the “right diplomacy,” then peace will come. But at the same time, they say we are a small and weak country that cannot act independently. On one hand, they scare us that if we don’t continue the policy of surrender, there will be war; on the other hand, they offer false hope that if we keep obeying the Turks and Russians, then peace will reign. They talk about independence while mocking the word “victory.” With such contradictory and insane ideas, the neo-Bolshevik November Criminals continue to poison the minds and souls of our compatriots.
All of this clearly shows us that the current government, the parliamentary opposition, and the overwhelming majority of the extra-parliamentary opposition—consciously or unconsciously—are promoting the same anti-state ideology and pushing forward a neo-Bolshevik agenda against our independence. They take their orders from the same Kremlin, just like those treasonous Armenians a century ago who welcomed the criminal and nation-wrecking Red Army with open arms.
We must fully understand this so that we know we can only trust a political movement that not only fights the current anti-national government, but also the entire anti-Armenian system that cares nothing about Armenia’s victory or independent statehood. Any political force that offers crowd-pleasing slogans instead of truth, and false promises instead of painful honesty, deserves nothing but condemnation. We can only trust and believe in a political movement that speaks the truth on these most critical issues, no matter how bitter those truths may be. There is no other path to peace in this merciless world except uniting, growing strong, and fighting.
He who fights against Armenia’s independence is our enemy. He who fights to strengthen Armenia’s independence is our friend. This is the formula of our political struggle. This is our ideological compass.
If we want to preserve our independence, if we want to strengthen our statehood, and if we want to live in peace and prosperity, then we must remember only three words: struggle, sacrifice, victory.
– Hayk Nazaryan
21 Հունիսի 2025թ
