ArmInfo. I find it unacceptable to attack Garegin Nzhdeh, as well as drawing parallels between him and the Nazis. The Speaker of the National Assembly, Ararat Mirzoyan, said this on May 7 during an online parliamentary conference dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Great Victory, responding to a statement by the speaker of the Azerbaijani parliament related to the hero of Armenia Garegin Nzhdeh.
The head of parliament said that in Ashgabat at a summit of the heads of CIS countries in October last year, Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan noted that the Armenians support any constructive steps aimed at objective coverage of historical events of the Second World War. <We oppose a subjective interpretation, and we consider it inappropriate to draw parallels between the Nazis and Garegin Nzhdeh. We urge you to familiarize yourself with the biography of Nzhdeh in detail and understand his importance for the Armenian people as a politician and hero of Armenia, who devoted his life to the struggle for independence and freedom of the motherland.
At the beginning of the 20th century, he fought against the Turkish occupation as part of the Bulgarian army during the Balkan War. During the First World War, Nzhdeh fought in the Russian army, for which he was awarded numerous awards, including the St. George Cross. During World War II, Nzhdeh's main goal was to prevent a possible Turkish invasion of Soviet Armenia if the Germans captured Transcaucasia. Once again, I urge you to familiarize yourself with historical facts in detail and to avoid fraud in the future>, the Speaker emphasized.