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First Model of the Memorial Complex

Model of the Vardan Mamikonyan Monument

Genocide. The letter bore the signatures of T.

“The anti-revolutionar y, nationalist Dashnak-

Aghayan, the Director of the Armenian branch

tsutyun party is preparing to use the issue in

of the Marxism-Leninism Institute, H. Inchikyan,

ever y way possible in order to foment anti-

the Director of the Oriental Studies Sector of the

Soviet feelings. With their main argument

National Academy of Sciences of the Armenian

being the fact that the mass slaughter of the

SSR, and John Kirakosyan, Deputy Head of the

Armenians is not marked in Soviet Armenia,

Ideology Section of the Armenian Communist

the Dashnaks are insisting that people are

Party Central Committee. This document presents

indifferent in our countr y to the cause of

the details of the genocide against the Armenians

the hundreds of thousands of our innocent

perpetrated in Ottoman Turkey and the policy of

compatriots who were killed at the hands of

extermination of the Armenians. It then notes that

the Turkish monsters. They present this as an

the Armenians deported from their motherland

objective justification of the policy of genocide.

are preparing to mark the fiftieth anniversary of

We think that maintaining silence on the 50 th

this occasion widely abroad.

anniversar y of the mass slaughter of Armenians