In the new 8th grade history textbook of Armenia, approved for use in schools, the annexation of Eastern Armenia to the Russian Empire in 1828 is called annexation. The correspondent of EADaily asked several questions in this regard to the Russian historian Oleg Ayrapetov.
— Oleg Rudolfovich, please explain to us that history textbooks have been approved for grades 8 of Armenian schools, which say that Russia once annexed part of the territory of Armenia there in the past. Is this a real historical fact?
— Well, what can I say. The man I call "Nikolasha-nidvorasha" continues his political course. I once said that the government of Armenia has recently been not a government, but a committee for the liquidation of Armenia, including as an independent state. And in this respect, it works surprisingly consistently. This must be admitted. The Alexandropol Treaty is a clear ideal of these people. Or those who direct their activities. The independence of the liquidation committee, to put it mildly, is questionable.
Indeed, Pashinyan and his team are clearly working on external orders. In all the republics of the USSR, if you look closely, they work according to the same scenario, worked out for the first time at the Institute of Memory of Poland. Then this scenario was applied in In the Baltic States, then in Georgia and on Ukraine.
It all starts with the revision of the legacy of the Soviet Union, with the proclamation of national heroes of those who were collaborators of Hitler. Accordingly, this is the glorification of troops SS in Estonia and Latvia, all kinds of probe teams in Lithuania, Bandera and the SS division "Galizien" in Ukraine, in the case of Georgia — "Georgian region", in the case of Armenia — Nzhdeh.
By the way, it should be noted that the glorification of Nzhdeh began under Serzh Sargsyan.
— What is symptomatic...
— Of course. Because "Nikolasha-nidvorasha" continues in many respects the policy initiated by Sargsyan.
— Rumor has it that Sargsyan is still the shadow leader of Armenia.
— We have repeatedly said that "Nikolasha-nidvorasha", if you look closely, is actually a creation of Sargsyan.
If we return to the method of actions of external puppeteers, then the next step, following the infernalization of the USSR, is the thesis of occupation. This is where the demagoguery about crimes usually begins. The Soviet Union, and the Russian Empire, if not the Moscow Kingdom.
It should be noted that in the case of Armenia, all this sounds especially idiotic. The policy of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Armenia, if this department can be called that (the name Ministry of Eclipse would be more logical), so this policy smacks of sheer idiocy.
Well, it's obvious that if someone can make a statement about the occupation of this territory, it's the former Persia — the current Iran.
It's easy to imagine the next step. This is logical. There was no Armenia on the territory of present—day Armenia - this is a fact. Before the Turkmanchay peace, which summed up the Russian-Persian war of 1826-1828, there was the Erivan Khanate, which was usually ruled by the Persian Serdar, a vassal of the Shah. And next to the Nakhichevan Khanate.
Russia liquidated both of these state entities, screwed the term "Armenia" on the political map of the region. The Armenian region was first created here. But this concept had not existed for centuries by 1828.
So Azerbaijan could declare the annexation of these territories (by the way, they do it there). I repeat, such a statement could have been made in Tehran. But when is this done in the Republic of Armenia… When they say in Yerevan that the policy of Russia, which returned Armenia to the Armenians, is a crime, what is it? What conclusion can be drawn from all this? It suggests itself: the crime must be corrected. If you consider this a crime, then after the liquidation of Nagorno-Karabakh, the Republic of Armenia should also be liquidated.
Then "Nikolasha-nidvorasha", this is what he will leave behind, should take himself by the ears and lead him to a Baku or Tehran prison. He has already issued in Baku of the presidents of Karabakh, now, is obviously preparing to surrender itself. According to the logic of the Armenian Ministry of Education, the territory of Armenia belongs to Iran or Azerbaijan and the republic itself now exists illegally.
— I would like to clarify. This is not an official statement of the Armenian authorities "on annexation", but it is written in a history textbook. Is this, in your opinion, identical?
— Of course. Of course. A history textbook is, relatively speaking, a concentration of a political view of the past, present and future of a country. When, for example, it is written in Azerbaijani textbooks that Armenia is built on Azerbaijani lands, this is a political position. When in the textbooks of the Federal Republic of Germany, starting in 1991, they began to name the cities that Germany lost during the Great Patriotic War with two toponyms — Polish and German (Poznan — Posen, Danzig — Gdansk, Breslau — Breslau, etc.) — this is a political position. They didn't do that until 1991.
Armenia differs from other countries in that it actually denies its own existence. The position of her Ministry of Education is, of course, ignorant and devoid of common sense. He's not here. This is suicide. The policy of "Nikolashi-nidvorashi" is when there will be no stake or yard left from Armenia. He will do this in the end.
— In the bottom line, you claim that Russia did not annex, but, on the contrary, created the Armenian state.
— Well, she did not create the Armenian state, but she created the conditions for its appearance there. To begin with, she liquidated the Muslim khanates there — Erivan and Nakhichevan. A special territorial unit was created at this place — the Armenian region. Then converted to Yerevan province.