SHUSHI LIBERATION MUST BECOME ALL-ARMENIAN HOLIDAY – COMMANDER
PanARMENIAN.Net
May 8, 2012 – 13:22 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net – “The celebrations must feature numerous parades. It
must be a long-awaited holiday,” Manvel Yeghiazaryan told journalists
in Yerevan.
Dwelling on the liberation of Shushi, he said “it became a driving
force for further victories.”
“It made the enemy succumb to panic, while we gained confidence,”
he noted.
Asked whether all the participants of Shushi liberation are presently
known, Yeghiazaryan noted with irony: “As far as I know, only 1500
people participated in the liberation struggle, however about 3000
individuals were granted awards.”
Shushi, due its impregnability, has long served as a unique defensive
point for population of Varanda. In XVIII century it became a fortress
town and a major trade and cultural center in XIX. In 1920, Soviet
power was established in Shushi and in June 1923 Nagorno Karabakh was
transferred to Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic. On May 8, 1992,
the city was liberated in an unprecedented operation by Artsakh army.
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