Pashinyan’s “historical” theses, reality and Aliyev’s material benefit

During the pre-election campaign, Nikol Pashinyan put forward “historical” theses about the number of Armenians, claiming: “There was no state in the territory of today’s Armenia from 1045 to 1918, people. There was no Armenian state. Can you imagine, after the fall of the Bagratun kingdom, there was no Armenian state in the territory of today’s Armenia, there were Mongol-Tatars, they came, they left, they migrated, they got mixed up, we migrated, etc., etc. But there have been states in this area, no state has ever existed in this area.

There were states here, but not Armenian states. 1000 years, can you imagine what that is? If we have to return to some place, we provoke that place so that they also say: we are also returning here. Because it’s a fact, we can’t say… In the Republic of Armenia, 90 percent are Armenians. Never before were 90 percent Armenians.”

Let’s remind that in February 2020, within the framework of the Munich Security Conference to the discussion entitled “Update on the Nagorno-Karabakh issue”. Nikol Pashinyan, responding to the statement of the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev that “Nagorno Karabakh is part of Azerbaijan, it is a historical fact”. had noted.

“I would advise President Aliyev not to go so far into history. Because when the Armenian king Tigran the Great was negotiating with the Roman military leader Pompey, there was no state in the South Caucasus and in the whole world that was called Azerbaijan. So I don’t think it’s the right approach to go that far, because I can go even further and start, for example, in BC. 405, but I won’t do it because I don’t think it’s the right approach.”

Then he continued.

“Mr. President, it was not very constructive, but I will say that In the time of Tigran the Great, there were only two nations in our region: Armenians and Georgians. And not only in the times of Tigran the Great, but also in the times of Bagratunis and Arshakunis. It can be found in any history book.”

Of course, here we do not forget the historical “myths” of journalist Pashinyan, critical articles, and the following thought written many years ago:

“I am surprised that there are still people in our country who have illusions about the occupied, if you like, liberated, if you like, occupied territories. I do not accept the view that or good diplomacy can prevent these territories from being returned to Azerbaijan.

… After all, this country has no owner, and we, who are supposed to be the owners of this country, want to be owners of someone else, leaving our own. Or, in our case, it is more correct to say that we don’t want someone else to own it. And, really, why should the 7 regions of Azerbaijan be ours, to sell a few general railway rails to Iranians, to destroy nature and export them as logs, to demolish factories and sell them? People tell legends from the gardens and fruits of Zangelan and Fizuli. Where was that fruit, did anyone in Armenia see it from the “liberation” of those territories?“after…”.

We all saw what happened after the change of power in 2018. At first, Pashinyan announced, “Artsakh is Armenia, and that’s it”, then he announced that he would not hand over the regions on the negotiation table, lest they say he was a traitor, even though he thought the same as in the article mentioned above. Well, then the 44-day war began, and we lost more territory than was on the negotiating table. And it turned out that Azerbaijan benefited more than all this. In other words, Pashinyan’s claim that he had a revival as a result of 2020 is a normal manipulation. he has always thought the way he is already openly talking about today, denying Aliyev the opportunity to hire scientists to falsify history and turn it in his favor.

We will not address Pashinyan’s past and present historical claims now, we will leave it to the historians, why not his teammate, the historian-minister of defense Suren Papikyan, who used to teach his students very correctly, who are the Azerbaijanis, or, as he called it, the Caucasian Tatars, how they penetrated into our region.

As for “In the Republic of Armenia now, 90 percent are Armenians, never before were 90 percent Armenians while these experts have already proven this to be untrue.

Available with information During the last census conducted in the USSR, in 1989, the number of Armenians living in the territory of the ASSR was more than the figure he said: 93.3 percent. Before that, a census was conducted in the USSR in 1979, and during that census it was found that the number of Armenians in the territory of the USSR was 89.7 percent.

Aniarc.amstudies have shown that if in 1931 Soviet Armenia had a population of a little more than 1 million, then in 1989 – 3.4 million.

In this context, let us recall that after the 44-day war, Nikol Pashinyan several times stated that Before the conflict and liberation, Shushi had 90 percent or more Azerbaijani population.

We in response: we presented evidence the number of Armenians in Shushi at different times and as a result of which the number of Azerbaijanis gradually increased, this fact cannot be ignored.

For example, different with information In 1886, the population of the city of Shushi 56.7 percent were Armenians, 43.3 percent – the Tatars. Already 1926The number of Armenians in the city of Shushi is 1.8 percent, Turks: 96 percent.

Let’s remind that In 1920 march 23-26-The armed units of Azerbaijan, together with the Shushi Tatar guerrilla groups, organized and carried out the massacre of the local Armenian population. massacre. Various sources mention up to 8-10 thousand killed. Naturally, this has led to depopulation.

However, in Hadrut region, according to different reports, in 1939 Armenians made up the population 95.7 percent, Azerbaijanis 2.7, 1959The number of Armenians living here has reached 93.3 percent, Azerbaijanis: 6.1 percent.

1970The number of Armenians decreased by several percent in 87.5, Azerbaijanis – increased10.4. And already in 1979 according to this data, Armenians made up the population of Hadrut region 84.4 percent, Azerbaijanis 15.1: That’s about it.

However, in this context, it is necessary to remind that after the first Artsakh war, Baku from all international platforms announced of more than 1 million refugees and forcibly displaced people.

6 years have passed since the 44-day war, as a result of which significant areas of Artsakh came under the control of Azerbaijan, and it has been almost 3 years since Artsakh has been completely depopulated, but recently the president of Azerbaijan to announce, which resettled another 85,000 people, possibly less than that.

According to Azerbaijani sources, many of the settlers want to return to Baku, where they have lived for 30 years.

And yesterday the Armenian media? reported Aliyev’s aide stated: “300,000 Azerbaijanis were deported from Armenia.”

Actually not so much no to be told

“Azerbaijan provided housing to around 300,000 internally displaced persons who suffered as a result of the conflict and the “occupation” of the country’s territories. During that period, the Government of Azerbaijan provided all possible support to IDPs and refugees by providing them with housing, affordable food and other social services. The main demand of these people was the return to their native lands and the opportunity to live there in safe and dignified conditions,” he said.

The fact that Baku has not abandoned the “Western Azerbaijan” state political program is indisputable, moreover, it does not consider it as a mirror response to some statements made in RA, but considers the return of Azerbaijani refugees purely in the context of human rights.

In February of this year 168.am– was an article with the caption “Aliyev’s dangerous and cunning proposal to Pashinyan”. to publish where some nuances are mentioned.

However, no matter how much the thesis of “300,000 Azerbaijanis” is spread by various circles, including Azerbaijani ones, we should emphasize the following: where did that number come from, are there so many Azerbaijanis living in RA, because it is probably far from reality. And for this very reason, their return should also be considered impossible, should be flexible and reasoned, not to allow both the authorities and Baku the opportunity to maneuver and catch lies. And no matter how much the RA authorities say that we should forget about Armenian refugees, at the right moment we should discuss the number of Armenian refugees from Azerbaijan, the number of forcibly displaced people from Artsakh, and remind us of the Azerbaijani thesis in the past. of more than 1 million refugees.

By the way, according to different calculations, even the 20 percent number of “occupied territories” was disputed.

And Nikol Pashinyan will continue to help Azerbaijan to save financial resources in hiring foreign scientists.

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