Ստալինեան բռնադատութիւնները Հայաստանում եւ սփիւռքահայ մամուլը (ակնարկ)
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2012
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For the first time the reaction of Armenian Diaspora newspapers to the Stalinist purges are brought to light in this article. These purges started after the assassination of the First Secretary of the Armenian Communist Party in Soviet Armenia, Aghasi Khandjian, in 1936.
The author has looked for data in Armenian dailies and monthlies published in the USA, France, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Argentina, Greece, Turkey, and Italy by different Armenian political parties between 1936 and 1956.
Atchemyan notes that the attitude of these newspapers towards the pogroms went through stages. With the exception of the Diaspora Communist media, almost all articles and editorials of 1936-38 that touched upon this issue condemned it, even though the picture of what had been committed was not clear enough. During WWII the issue seemed to be dropped by these newspapers. Nevertheless after the end of WWII it was high on the agenda again, particularly as the end of the 10-year-punishment sentences coincided with the end of the war. It also coincided with the end of the blackout that the vigolant Soviet Armenian security officers had conducted through the Diaspora newspapers.
The last phase of this story started after the death of Stalin, when reforms became natural. Nonetheless, the loss among Soviet Armenian authors and public figures was so strongly felt that the echoes of those purges continued for many years to come and are still invoked on specific occasions.
The reaction of the Armenian Diaspora to these purges that lasted for twenty years is a vivid proof that, notwithstanding the iron curtain and the difference in state system, the Diaspora perceived the Stalinist purges as a pan-Armenian tragedy that fell upon the Eastern Armenians.
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Աճէմեան, Գ., «Ստալինեան բռնադատութիւնները Հայաստանում եւ սփիւռքահայ մամուլը (ակնարկ)», «Հայկազեան հայագիտական հանդէս», 2012, Պէյրութ, էջ 81-111