Ter-Petrosyan recalled Etchmiadzin - myths, blood and a fake story

The first president of Armenia, Levon Ter-Petrosyan, unexpectedly sided with Etchmiadzin in the confrontation between the church and Nikol Pashinyan. Previously, he had not shown much spiritual zeal and special friendship with the Catholicos. It is clear that the ex-president has decided to join the campaign to overthrow the current government. Once Ter-Petrosyan and Pashinyan were on the same side of the barricades, now the old Levon decided to stake out a place for himself in the "Armenian paradise" by supporting the Armenian Apostolic Church.

"At the beginning of the 20th century, in 1903, Emperor Nicholas II of Russia passed a law on the confiscation of the property of the Armenian Church and the closure of Armenian schools. This caused such a wave of indignation and protest among all strata of the Armenian people, unwittingly contributing to the formation of Armenian nationalism, that in 1905 the emperor was forced to repeal this law. If the Armenian people defeated the emperor of mighty Russia, then who is the traitor and blasphemer Nikol not to defeat him?" - Ter-Petrosyan wrote on social networks.    

With this statement, Ter-Petrosyan showed that, despite all his education and long political experience, he could not break away from the "titty" of Armenian myth-making. He either doesn't know the real story well, or he deliberately distorts it, adapting it to the current situation. In addition, he tries to avoid correct definitions of what the Armenians were doing in tsarist Russia. It was not nationalism, it was terrorism, and it did not appear at all in response to the government's decision, but just the opposite - Armenian separatism and terrorism supported by the church were the reason that the Russian authorities decided to take action. The "Armenian question" did not arise after the alleged "genocide of 1915", it appeared shortly after tsarist Russia began to settle Azerbaijani lands with newcomers of Armenians in the early 19th century. Using the services of the Armenians in the wars that Russia waged in this region, the tsarist government presented the Armenians with the lands of the conquered khanates and thought that the "allies" would be grateful and useful to the grave. But it was a big mistake. Armenians gathered around their criminal church and became a headache for the authorities. Contrary to expectations, it was not the Muslim population, but Etchmiadzin and his flock, who created problems for St. Petersburg.

As the Azerbaijani historian Ilgar Niftaliyev wrote earlier, starting from the late 1880s, the tsarist government began to closely monitor the destructive activities of the Armenian church. This activity proved to be in contradiction with the policy pursued by the tsarist government on the national outskirts, which led to dramatic changes in Russian-Armenian relations.

Simply put, the Armenian Church did not want to take into account the royal power, but considered itself the main governing force in the territories newly populated by Armenians.

In 1884, a decision was made prohibiting the Armenian Apostolic Church from opening parochial schools outside churches and monasteries. Russian Russian was also required by the government to teach the Russian language, history and geography of Russia in Russian. A year later, the commander-in-chief of the civil unit in the Caucasus, S.A.Sheremetev, addressed the authorities with a note stating the widespread separatist movement among Armenians in the last decade, and proposed "in order to prevent possible complications and aggravation of the Armenian issue, to remove the education of the Armenian population from the sphere of influence of the Armenian-Gregorian Church and transfer educational institutions existing under the Armenian churches and monasteries, under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Public Education."

As a result, in 1897, all Armenian-Gregorian church schools, except for the Theological Academy and seminaries, were transferred to the jurisdiction of the Ministry, which led to disputes over the property of church schools. The church rushed to file lawsuits, the discussions took several years, and on June 12, 1903, Nicholas II approved a decree on secularization of the property of the Armenian-Gregorian Church. Etchmiadzin finished playing.

After that, the church blessed the terrorists for "noble revenge." What Ter-Petrosyan beautifully calls nationalism was terrorism. The Armenian Church has always propagandized hatred and terror, it has shaped the national mentality of the Armenian ethnic group and built its identity. Etchmiadzin pointed out the enemy to the zombie society, and a wave of terrorist attacks swept across the Caucasus.

The law, approved by the Emperor on June 12, was officially titled as follows: "The most highly approved regulation of the Committee of Ministers On the Concentration of the Management of the Assets of the Armenian-Gregorian Church in Russia under the jurisdiction of Government Agencies and on the funds and assets of the said church to be transferred to the Ministry of Public Education, which ensured the existence of Armenian-Gregorian Church schools."

By this law, the immovable property belonging to the Armenian Apostolic Church, including religious educational institutions, was transferred to the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Agriculture and State Property, and the capital from this immovable property was placed at the disposal of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. At the same time, the ownership of the church was preserved, that is, the property was not confiscated, as Ter-Petrosyan claims. Moreover, the law did not apply to real estate and capital owned by the Armenian Church in St. Petersburg and Moscow.

The actions of the tsarist authorities aroused the Armenian masses both in the Caucasus and outside of Russia. The liberal Russian press rose to its feet inside the empire. Russian liberals, as history shows, were already harnessing Armenian interests against the state policy of their own country at that time. Nothing has changed in a hundred years. Nothing has changed in the methods of the diaspora either. The Armenians living in Europe developed a vigorous activity and "with amazing unanimity tried to prove to the "enlightened" Europe that Armenians settled in Russia languish under the harsh and unfair regime of the Russian government." This was mentioned in a review of the foreign press made in 1904. How can one not notice the parallels with the way Armenians conduct propaganda these days, only now against Azerbaijan?   

However, all this fuss was lost against the background of the bloody terror unleashed by the Armenians against the tsarist government.

Let's turn to Ilgar Niftaliev's publication.: "Only from February 1, 1905 to May 1, 1906, the city governor, 1 police officer, 4 city police officers were killed by Armenians in Baku, and 4 police officers and 1 gendarmerie officer were injured. During the same period, 1 bailiff, 1 city police officer, 1 civilian official, 2 representatives of rural authorities, 1 merchant, 1 sentry, 1 gendarmerie officer, 2 civilian officials were killed in the Irevan province, an assistant district chief was injured, 2 people were missing. Murders were also committed in the Kars region. From February 1, 1905 to May 1, 1906, 1 assistant police officer was killed in the region, and a clerical official was wounded."

The Church was directly involved in all these terrorist attacks.

What Ter-Petrosyan calls "victory over the emperor of mighty Russia" was actually a retreat from terror. The tsar had to repeal the law to stop the terrorist attacks. but the Armenians got a taste for it and continued their "holy revenge" for some time.