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Taken from the file “Armenia amid a sea of uncertainties”, available at armenia2020.org

Translation from Russion to English:

The people lived only by hopes, it kept and raised its culture, and its treasures collected under the ashes of fires, epic poems were passed on from mouth to mouth, a mighty and tragic liric poetry developed, architecture - severe and great - kept its style, unique in the world.

The Armenian people was bitterly disappointed when the hope for liberation that had flared up after the February Revolution was destroyed by miserable betrayal by the Dashnaks and Mensheviks.

And finally the five-pointed star of liberty has raised over Armenia!

The people has taken the power in its own hands.

Soviet Armenia. From an album with illustrations published due the 20th anniversery of the Great Socialist Octobre Revolution, 1937

Übersetzung vom Russischen ins Deutsche:

Das Volk lebte nur von Hoffnungen, es bewahrte und bereicherte seine Kultur, seine Schätze sammelten sich an unter der Asche der Brände, von Mund zu Mund wurde die Epik weitergegeben, eine kraftvolle und tragische Lyrik enstand, die Architektur – streng und großartig – bewahrte ihren Stil, wie er einem nirgends sonst begegnet.

Fürchterliche Enttäuschung schlug das armenische Volk, als die gerade erst aufgeblitzte Hoffnung auf Befreiung nach der Februarrevolution durch den elenden Verrat der Daschnaken und Menschewiken zerschlagen wurde.

Nun endlich ist der fünfzackige Stern der Freiheit aufgegangen über Armenien!

Das Volk hat die Macht in seine Hände genommen.'

Sowjetisches Armenien. Aus einem illustriertem Album, herausgegeben zum zwanzigsten Jahrestag der Großen Sozialistischen Oktoberrevolution, 1937.

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