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Karabagh’s old folks relate that even under the Kezelbashes and the cruel local rulers of tsarist times, no such oppression, repression, pillage, corruption and acts of violence had taken place. Yes, we couldn’t take these insults any longer and we decided to leave at any price, to flee from the claws of this repressive government.
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A respectable number of Armenian communists of Karabagh themselves were working with us in seeking the reattachment of Karabagh to Armenia. Of course many of them are now in prisons. Nonetheless the number of those following them is increasing in time.
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The society known as “Karabagh to Armenia,” which has branches in all regions of Karabagh [extends] all the way to the Armenian regions of Ganja and [is doing much work]. The society is non-partisan and includes Dashnakshakans, old Hunchakians, Bolsheviks, Social Revolutionaries, and Mensheviks. At the beginning of November 1927, the society distributed thousands of leaflets in all regions of Karabagh with the slogan “Karabagh to Armenia”.
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A second leaflet at the end of the same month states: “If the present leaders of Armenia have condemned the hundreds of thousands of Armenians of Karabagh and cannot actualize the declaration of the Turkish Communist Narimanov that ‘Karabagh belongs to Armenia’ then what is their function, what is their role, and what is it that they are doing sitting on the banks of Hrazdan in the role of lackeys?”
[Haratch, Paris, February 15, 1928]
The Karabagh File, Documents and Facts, 1918-1988, First Edition, Cambridge Toronto 1988, by the ZORYAN INSTITUTE, edited by: Gerard J. LIBARIDIAN, p. 40.
