In my childhood years at home the most prohibited item for the children was the diary of my father of the war years. When my brother was 18 years old, he asked my father: “What did you want when you were 18?” He replied: “I was lying wounded in the mud and dreamed of a drink of cold water.”

On April 25, the subdivision of RA AF under the command of the joint group of RA AF and RF AF forces commander, Lieutenant General Michael Grigoryan left for Moscow to participate in the parade dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

There is nothing in this world without God. We live thanks to God. Since childhood, I’ve loved my people, wanted to see the victory of the Armenians… and saw the victory of Artsakh. During the Artsakh movement I have been at meetings at Opera Square in Yerevan. When I saw half a million people who do not trample on the grass, not tear branches, share with each other the bread, I cried with joy. It seemed to me that the Holy Spirit came down and my people became holy. People became united, honest, brave. Here it struck me.

On April 24, in Yerevan and Istanbul parallel events were held: the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide and the parade of the Battle of Gallipoli. This year, the denial policy of the Turkish authorities came to a climax, they were forced to falsify even the world history, moving the date of the Battle of Gallipoli to April 24th. Apparently Ankara wanted to overshadow events in Armenia. However, the Turkish venture failed. Turkey did not consider that the international community is faithful to universal values, that memories of the Holocaust, genocides in Rwanda, Cambodia and others are still fresh. This “show” was attended by the leaders of those countries that have or do not want to spoil relations with Ankara, or at one time were the performers of such crimes.

In the early days of the Great Patriotic War national divisions were formed. The first Armenian 67th Division of the 11th Army, formed on the initiative of Miasnikyan, went to the front. Then Armenian 390th, 261st, 408th divisions were formed.
In August 1941, in Leninakan 409th Division was formed, which in1942 was renamed “Armenian”. The division commander was Colonel Artashes Vasilian, Commissar – Arshaluys Hayrapetyan, deputy commanders – Colonels Ivan Prokopenko and Stepan Stepanyan, head of the politburo – Liparit Vardanyan. There were 15 thousand soldiers and officers in the division.

84-year-old Hovsep Poladyan was one of the “Nairi” primary school teachers in Tehran. 50 years ago, the school celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. In 1965 there were 1200 pupils at the school.

After tension on the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic – Azerbaijan contact line in July-August 2014 Azerbaijani armed forces are getting more and more active again. According to the NKR Defense Army, besides sending permanently the saboteur squads, using various firearms, 60 and 82mm mortars, the Azerbaijani forces, for the first time since ceasefire’s establishment, have begun to use 120mm caliber mortars. Azerbaijani Defense Minister Zakir Hasanov stated that “we have so many weapons and military techniques that due to its use the Armenians will not come to consciousness for hundreds of years” and that the “very first strike will destroy 70% of the enemy.”