Soviet Armenia of Armenia Top 24 Facts
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Facts : 1 Soviet Armenia The coat of arms of Soviet Armenia depicting Mount Ararat in the center
Facts : 2 Armenia was annexed by Bolshevist Russia and along with Georgia and Azerbaijan, it was incorporated into the Soviet Union as part of the Transcaucasian SFSR (TSFSR) on 4 March 1922
Facts : 3 With this annexation, the Treaty of Alexandropol was superseded by the Turkish-Soviet Treaty of Kars
Facts : 4 The TSFSR existed from 1922 to 1936, when it was divided up into three separate entities (Armenian SSR, Azerbaijan SSR, and Georgian SSR)
Facts : 5 They received medicine, food, and other provisions from Moscow, and communist rule proved to be a soothing balm in contrast to the turbulent final years of the Ottoman Empire
Facts : 6 The situation was difficult for the church, which struggled under Soviet rule
Facts : 7 After the death of Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin took the reins of power and began an era of renewed fear and terror for Armenians
Facts : 8 An estimated 500,000 Armenians (nearly a third of the population) served in the military during the war, and 175,000 died
Facts : 9 Fears decreased when Stalin died in 1953 and Nikita Khruschev emerged as the Soviet Union s new leader
Facts : 10 The church, which suffered greatly under Stalin, was revived when Catholicos Vazgen I assumed the duties of his office in 1955
Facts : 11 In 1967, a memorial to the victims of the Armenian Genocide was built at the Tsitsernakaberd hill above the Hrazdan gorge in Yerevan
Facts : 12 This occurred after mass demonstrations took place on the tragic event s fiftieth anniversary in 1965
Facts : 13 Armenians gather at Theater Square in central Yerevan to claim unification of Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast with the Armenian SSR During the Gorbachev era of the 1980s, with the reforms of Glasnost and Perestroika, Armenians began to demand better environmental care for their country, opposing the pollution that Soviet-built factories brought
Facts : 14 Tensions also developed between Soviet Azerbaijan and its autonomous district of Nagorno-Karabakh, a majority-Armenian region separated by Stalin from Armenia in 1923
Facts : 15 Peaceful protests in Yerevan supporting the Karabakh Armenians were met with anti-Armenian pogroms in the Azerbaijani city of Sumgait
Facts : 16 Compounding Armenia s problems was a devastating earthquake in 1988 with a moment magnitude of 7.2
Facts : 17 Gorbachev s inability to alleviate any of Armenia s problems created disillusionment among the
Facts : 2 Armenia was annexed by Bolshevist Russia and along with Georgia and Azerbaijan, it was incorporated into the Soviet Union as part of the Transcaucasian SFSR (TSFSR) on 4 March 1922
Facts : 3 With this annexation, the Treaty of Alexandropol was superseded by the Turkish-Soviet Treaty of Kars
Facts : 4 The TSFSR existed from 1922 to 1936, when it was divided up into three separate entities (Armenian SSR, Azerbaijan SSR, and Georgian SSR)
Facts : 5 They received medicine, food, and other provisions from Moscow, and communist rule proved to be a soothing balm in contrast to the turbulent final years of the Ottoman Empire
Facts : 6 The situation was difficult for the church, which struggled under Soviet rule
Facts : 7 After the death of Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin took the reins of power and began an era of renewed fear and terror for Armenians
Facts : 8 An estimated 500,000 Armenians (nearly a third of the population) served in the military during the war, and 175,000 died
Facts : 9 Fears decreased when Stalin died in 1953 and Nikita Khruschev emerged as the Soviet Union s new leader
Facts : 10 The church, which suffered greatly under Stalin, was revived when Catholicos Vazgen I assumed the duties of his office in 1955
Facts : 11 In 1967, a memorial to the victims of the Armenian Genocide was built at the Tsitsernakaberd hill above the Hrazdan gorge in Yerevan
Facts : 12 This occurred after mass demonstrations took place on the tragic event s fiftieth anniversary in 1965
Facts : 13 Armenians gather at Theater Square in central Yerevan to claim unification of Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast with the Armenian SSR During the Gorbachev era of the 1980s, with the reforms of Glasnost and Perestroika, Armenians began to demand better environmental care for their country, opposing the pollution that Soviet-built factories brought
Facts : 14 Tensions also developed between Soviet Azerbaijan and its autonomous district of Nagorno-Karabakh, a majority-Armenian region separated by Stalin from Armenia in 1923
Facts : 15 Peaceful protests in Yerevan supporting the Karabakh Armenians were met with anti-Armenian pogroms in the Azerbaijani city of Sumgait
Facts : 16 Compounding Armenia s problems was a devastating earthquake in 1988 with a moment magnitude of 7.2
Facts : 17 Gorbachev s inability to alleviate any of Armenia s problems created disillusionment among the