Distorts the facts about Nzhdeh. Pashinyan’s harsh response to Aliyev (video)

RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan responded to the speech of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev during the meeting of CIS member-state leaders in Ashgabat and stated that he sees attempts to distort the facts on his part.

In his speech at the meeting of the leaders of CIS member states, Aliyev complained that the statue of Garegin Nzhdeh was installed in Yerevan. “Fascists are glorified in Armenia, where the former government installed them in the center of Yerevan Garegin Ter-Harutyunyan the statue that cooperated with the fascists,” Aliyev said, to which the RA Prime Minister gave a harsh answer.

“Unfortunately, we saw such attempts in Ilham Aliyev’s speech. Listening to his evaluations of Garegin Nzhdeh, to tell the truth, I remembered the famous Soviet film “Captive of the Caucasus”. when there is talk about the ruins of the ancient castle, and a question is raised: what is it, did I destroy the church as well? Ilham Heydarovich’s speech gives the impression that Hitler played a secondary role in that war, and the leader of the Nazi movement was Garegin Nzhdeh,” said Pashinyan.

And the reality, Pashinyan notes, is that Garegin Nzhdeh fought against the Turkish occupation of Armenia, fought against the genocide of Armenians, and the reality is that during the Armenian-Turkish war, Garegin Nzhdeh, along with many Russian officers, led a very important part of the front in 1918.

“I want to emphasize once again that it is important for us to know the objective assessment of history. They say that Garegin Nzhdeh died in Vladimir prison. Many Soviet figures died in that prison, Solzhenitsyn was in the Gulag. Do we think that those who were convicted in the years 37-50 are all enemies of the nation? If so, many prominent figures have been convicted and ended their lives in prison.

But that doesn’t mean we have to accept it all as fact. And I consider it unnecessary and unnecessary to use this format to distort history, to introduce some tension in the atmosphere of this quite important session,” he said.