Artsakh The Inadequate Response

  During a speech to the British parliament in 1948, Sir Winston Churchill paraphrased a statement made by Spanish philosopher George Santayana, and emphasized to his audience the fact that "Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it." It seems that Civil Contract Party MPs, study history not to understand and avoid critical mistakes that claimed the lives of 5,000 brave Armenian soldiers in 2020, but to absolve the architect of the “Engineered Defeat”- Nikol Pashinyan from any responsibility by burying secret documents in the archives of Armenia’s National Assembly (NA). Armenia’s parliamentarians do not feel the need to learn anything from history, and honestly do not give a hoot if the political leadership of Armenia repeats the same mistakes of 2020, and another 10,000 lives are lost in the future upheavals that will shake the South Caucasus if Iran emerges triumphant from the “War of Choice” launched by Israel and America in February 2026. On...

  Many readers, who regularly receive our notifications by email, complained that in our defence of Nzhdeh’s relationship with Nazi Germany during WWII we buried under the rug the close ties forged between The Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. The accusations are totally absurd and we never made any attempt to conceal the fact that Stalin was in bed with Hitler, but they had different dreams and agendas. When Aliyev turned Nzhdeh’s cooperation with Nazi Germany into a “ Cause Célèbre” in October 2019, and shock waves reached the Armenian Media in the Diaspora, The Armenian Mirror-Spectator published an article titled “A Deadly Dilemma” with the following introductory paragraph: “ The demons of history are once again haunting Armenia’s political life. The memory and legacy of Garegin Nzhdeh have been resurrected and have become a controversial topic in the political discourse between Armenia and Russia, with the spillover affecting Azerbaijan.” Thousands of Armenians ...