Edmond Y. Azadian
While Armenians around the world are gearing up to commemorate the
centennial of the Genocide, another calamity in our history must not be
overlooked: the atrocities perpetrated against our beleaguered nation
during the Stalin period.
It would not be historically proper to draw parallels between the two
tragedies in terms of cause and effect, but the net outcome in both
cases was the destruction of the creative minds of our people.
It is ironic that the executioners of history seem to be well versed
enough in literature, arts and scholarship to be able to pick out the
cream of the crop and target them for extermination — or else they
employ advisors with enough intellectual capacity for this grisly
selection.
