Attacks upon nationhood and patriotism have been raging over many years on many fronts. The culmination of those attacks is today having disastrous effects upon the nation of Armenia.

It has been the dream of man for control of the world and its wealth for centuries. They have succeeded in creating the United Nations. It was created ostensibly to bring about peace, love, unity, and tranquility to the world. The question should be asked: “but whose world”? The cry from their palatial glass house for peace has been deafening, while the preparation for wars have been yearly occurrences. Chaos is created so that sovereign nations will plead to be governed by this “one world humanitarian” body. The naivety of free man will place himself into its chains.

On July 14, 1856, British Prime Minister Disraeli, a brilliant statesman at the time, delivered a startling address in the House of Commons. He stated: “There is a power which we seldom mention in this House, I mean the secret societies. It is useless to deny, because it is impossible to conceal, that a great part of Europe, the whole of Italy, and France and a great portion of Germany, to say nothing of other countries, is covered with a network of these societies, just as the surfaces of the earth is now being covered by railroads. And what are their objects? They do not attempt to conceal them. They do not want constitutional government. They do not improve existing institutions. They want to change the tenure of land, to drive out the present owners of the soil and put an end to ecclesiastical establishments.”

These men that Disraeli was describing were not merely a conspiracy of the super rich to gain more riches. True, the Bible says that “The love of money is the root of all evil”, but these men’s inordinate passion for wealth, possessions, and the power that such riches bring, is not the first cause of their plot and conspiracy. The first cause was, and is today, their hatred and utter disregard for the most high God in heaven and his son Jesus Christ.

The major impediment of these men towards “one world” globalization is patriotism and nationalism. Their goal is to erase boundaries of nations and mix the races so that the enslaving of mankind will be made easier.

It is most difficult for a small nation such as Armenia to withstand one-world external forces that are harmful to its existence. One of the predominant methods used to weaken Armenia is to eliminate its sense of nationalism. This is done by contaminating the nation’s culture, the usage of money to create greed of its leaders, stagnate its economy in order to depopulate the nation, destroy its Christian religion by the introduction of cults, atheism, new age movements, world religion, homosexuality and immorality.

The national treasures of strong family structure, morals, culture, and religion must be protected by the people even if the government will not. The importation of immorality must stop. Protecting these values are the nation’s best weapons of defense since the enemies’ cannons are considerably larger, primarily because the dark forces are arming and training Armenia’s perennial enemies.

The “Open Letter to the Armenian People” by Baroness Caroline Cox, written a number of years ago, should be read again. She expresses great love and admiration for the Armenian people. She warns that “now you are in danger of losing the peace and your independence. If you do not act quickly you will lose not only the sacred land of Artsakh but Armenia too.” She continues, “If the present course of events is not stopped, your leadership in Yerevan will have fatally weakened and betrayed your country.” Does Baroness Cox know something that Armenia’s people and government do not know? If they do not know, should she not tell them, or should they not ask?

There is no doubt that the very same “dark forces” which destroyed Christian Serbia are today eyeing Christian Armenia. These very same forces were also responsible for placing Armenia in the category of “axis of evil” nations, which the American administration reversed (for the time being), because they did not need more opposition to their war in Iraq.

Fortunately, patriotism is still very much alive in Armenia. The spirit of General Garekin Nejdeh, the defender of Zangezour, is spreading. Garekin Nejdeh was born Garegin Ter Haroutunian in the village of Geznoud Nakhijevan, Armenia in 1886. In 1905 he was enrolled in the Bulgarian military academy. In 1912 Nejdeh joined a brigade as a 2nd lieutenant commanded by General Antranig to fight against the Turks. After the proclamation of the independent Republic of Armenia on May 28, 1918, Nejdeh busied himself with the organization of the Armenian army. In the fall of 1919 the Turko-Tartar intrigues were started in the province of Goghthan (or Gothn). The Armenian government appointed him commander of the region to suppress the rebellion and pacify the region. Thereafter, in 1920, he moved into Karabagh, and later to Zangezour where he remained to continue the fight against the Bolsheviks until July of 1921. This stand came to be known as the heroic stand of Siunik, or Mountainous Armenia, a glorious page in the history of Armenian struggle for freedom. This effort enabled the escape and rescue of thousands of Armenian intellectuals and national leaders from the vengeance of the Soviets in February of 1921. This act of rescue is considered the crowning glory of Nejdeh’s military career. He was as great an orator and organizer as he was a military leader.

To him the “zeal for the house of his Lord” was the fatherland of Armenia, the land of his forefathers, which he loved passionately. He spoke of the Armenian struggle of the centuries for liberation, the great Armenian Revolution, the unequal fights with the enemy, the heroic stands, the proclamation of the independent Republic, the loss of the Republic, the need of recovering the lost independence, the enemies of the Armenian people — the Turk and the Soviet, and the compelling urge of arming the Armenian remnants with the armor of faith, and invincibility.

He spoke of the Armenian virtues, which flow from the national fountainhead, the people itself, the nation, the race, not in the morbid and abused sense of the concept, which the Nazis vitiated into racial superiority, but in terms of human dignity, pride and self-assurance. He was captured in Bulgaria during World War II and sent to Siberia where he died in 1955. His remains have been brought back to Armenia and buried near the Sbidagavor church monastery on Khousdoup Mountain. Notes that he wrote while in prison have been transferred to Armenia. There exists a newly written book in great detail about Nejdeh that is authored by Rafael Hampartzoumian, the chairman of the Nakhijevan Union. A boulevard in Yerevan is named after him.

At this time a brief history of territorial intrigues after the collapse of the Armenian Republic in the latter part of 1920 must be told. After the free Republic of Armenia became a Soviet Republic in December 1920, Azerbaijan sent a telegram to the Soviet Government of Armenia renouncing their claims to the territories of Kharabagh, Zangezour, and Nakjijevan to Armenia. Border disputes were declared resolved. On March 16, 1921 the Treaty of Moscow between the “dark forces” of the Bolsheviks of Russia and Turkey reversed the December 1920 agreement that Azerbaijan had made with Soviet Armenia. They took advantage of Armenia’s weak position to steal Armenia’s ancient lands. On October 13, 1921 the Treaty of Kars finally sealed the theft of Armenia’s Nakhijevan and Kharabagh. Thereafter, a cruel systematic effort took place in eradicating the substantially extensive Armenian population of Nakhijevan. Armenians from generation to generation worldwide must continually demand that all their ancient lands be returned.

Today there exists a little known but well organized movement in Armenia called the National Council of Nakhijevan Armenians. The movement is based upon the principles of Garekin Nejdeh’s philosophies. This Nakhijevan movement is challenging the illegal transfer of Armenia’s territory of Nakhijevan. They have appealed to the Russian Duma (Parliament) to declare null and void the illegal Bolshevik-Turkish Treaty of Moscow on March 16, 1921. This treaty was signed as the “friendship and brotherhood treaty”. Patriotic movements such as the Nakhijevan Union are those that deserve maximum attention from the Diaspora because they are the bulwarks against defeatism, and will die on the soil before leaving it.

Let us not forget that 10,000 Armenian boys died in the Kharabagh war to preserve our ancient lands. Should we who remain alive speak from a position of weakness and arbitrate soil that was secured with the blood of those present day Nejdehs? That act would fall into the category of treason.

The youth of Armenia must be indoctrinated with the armor of nationalism and patriotism, so that no enemy internally or externally can destroy the future destiny of the country. Let Armenians not forget the sacrifices of all its “Nejdehs” during the Kharabagh war.
“Aine oren yerp Hai-uh vakh-nal mah-en
aine oren odar-uh takavoretz Hai-astan-oum”

“The day the Armenian fears death s the day the odar becomes king of Hayastan”
General Garekin Nejdeh

“Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice”.
Senator Barry Goldwater (1964)

Major political parties, churches and organizations in the Diaspora, regardless of political differences or interests, must immediately call a “Council for the Nations Defense”. They should refrain from defending individual turf until the turf of Hayastan is secure. Nothing can be more critical than the calling for this council. Individual pride must be put aside and replaced by collective “national” pride. There will be very little to value after the nation has lost its sovereignty. Some patriotic entity must initiate the element of collective communication before it is too late.

Ardavast Avakian
Boca Raton, Florida
2-5-03