Edited And Translated By Vatche Ghazarian Preface
At the moment when the Great War began Armenia, divided between Russia and Turkey, repressed by force or actual massacre, had no defense … A grim alternative was presented to the Armenian leaders … They took the remarkable decision that if war should come, their people in Turkey and in Russia should do their duty to their respective Governments. They thought it better to face fratricidal strife in the quarrels of others than to stake their existence upon the victory of either side…
When Turkey attacked Russian Armenia, the Czar's Government, fearing that a successful defense of Caucasia by Armenians would dangerously inflame the Nationalist aspirations of the race, conveyed a hundred and fifty thousand Armenian conscripts to the Polish and Galician fronts and brought other Russian troops to defend Armenian hearths and . . .
Direct Link: Boghos Nubar’s Papers And The Armenian Question 1915–1918 Documents
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