National Security Service of Armenia: “We are not Bloody Gebnya!”
On August 12, at the invitation of the Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia Armen Grigoryan, a Russian delegation led by Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev arrived in Yerevan for a two-day working visit.
Patrushev and Grigoryan
Nikolai Patrushev is scheduled to meet with the Prime Minister on Tuesday Nikol Pashinyan and negotiations with his Armenian colleague Armen Grigoryan.
During the visit, Patrushev will hold consultations on security issues with the participation of the leadership of the Security Councils of the two countries and representatives of a number of departments of Russia and Armenia.
The previous time Patrushev and Grigoryan met in June of this year in Ufa as part of an international meeting of heads of departments in charge of security issues.
Taking into account the fact that Grigoryan is a maydaun and a grant eater, whose appointment to the post of Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia was met with extremely ambiguity even among Pashinyan’s entourage, observers do not expect any breakthrough results from Patrushev’s visit and explain his visit as a protocol necessity: in November 2018, between Russia and Armenia signed a two-year agreement on visits by heads of security councils.
Much more interesting than protocol visits are the events that unfolded around Patrushev’s arrival.
For example, the “free democratic press of Armenia” made an interesting comment on the first day of the visit of the head of the Russian delegation:
“Russian Security Council Secretary Patrushev walked around Yerevan last night with his Armenian colleague Grigoryan. Patrushev liked the walk. The very fact of such a relaxed appearance of a high-ranking Armenian official in public greatly surprised Patrushev, who before this visit to Armenia was always driven in cars with flashing lights and a bunch of guards.
However, this is an alarming signal for Patrushev and the Russian elite. They are afraid that the example of the Armenian revolution could be contagious for Russians,” the media close to Pashinyan report with a blue eye.
It is imperceptible that the “alarm signal” somehow puzzled Patrushev and created a commotion among the Russian elite. So far, we are seeing the opposite: how the “terrible Russian reality” is contagious for Armenians, since tens of thousands of them go to work and permanent residence in Russia, not finding much attractiveness or meaning from languid walks with the head of the Armenian Security Council in the evening Yerevan.
An even more interesting correspondence took place on the eve of Patrushev’s visit between the chairman of the “Asparez” press club from Gyumri, Levon Barseghyan, and the public relations office of the National Security Service of Armenia.
Head of the Grantoyed press center “Asparez” Barseghyan
Influential grant-eater Barseghyan, who receives funding from the Foundation for Support of Democracy (NED) and the Soros Open Society, sent an email to the head of the National Security Service of the Republic of Azerbaijan Vantsetsyan with a list of questions, the main ones of which are the following: which structures is the successor of the Armenian Security Service, and also - whether the Sovietization of Armenia was an annexation, and whether Soviet Armenia was a subject of international law.
From the office of the head of the National Security Service Vantsetsyan, the leader of Armenian grant-eating journalism, with reference to the opinion of the director of the special service, responded as follows:
“In 1918, the intelligence and counterintelligence department of the General Staff of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Armenia was created in the Republic of Armenia. This is the first Armenian state structure that had the functions of a special service and ensuring national security in the modern period of our history. Yes, from this date we consider the founding of the Armenian national security bodies and in 2018 we celebrated the 100th anniversary of its founding.
We believe that the activities of our structure were interrupted by the Sovietization of the Republic of Armenia, when we lost statehood, and in 1991, as a result of the restoration of statehood and thanks to this, we were restored as the National Security Service of the Republic of Armenia. Yes, it hurts that there was such a long interruption, but we all know very well that it was an interruption of independent statehood. The loss of independence cannot be viewed positively by any normal person.
We do not consider ourselves the legal successors of the NKVD and the KGB of the USSR. Moreover, our employees, who ensure the security of Armenia and its people day and night, cannot be identified or compared with Stalin’s executioners and Gulag punitive forces. The massive violence and persecution committed among us during the Soviet years was condemned – long ago and once and for all.”
The answer to the second question sounded more evasive: they say, the director of the National Security Service of Armenia is not a historian, not a political scientist, and assessing certain historical events is not within his competence. "He can't answer these questions."
Although, if you read the answer to the first question, the director of the National Security Service of Armenia still gives political and historical assessments.
The easiest way to object to Vantsetsyan is about the “horrors” of the Sovietization of Armenia in 1920.
As you know, on September 24, 1920, the nationalist government of the Armenian Republic, with the support of the Entente, entered into a war with the Turkish Kemalists, which it lost completely by the beginning of December 1920.
Thus, “independent” Armenia itself, without the intervention of the RSFSR, lost the Kars region with Mount Ararat, and was also forced to withdraw troops from Karabakh, which became the reason for the subsequent entry of the region into the Azerbaijan SSR with autonomy rights.
If the Armenian Natsiks had continued the war with the Kemalists further, to the delight of the Entente, then their human and territorial losses would have been immeasurably higher. Moreover, the Alexandropol Peace Treaty with Turkey, according to which the Turks received the Kars region, was concluded by Armenian “independents”, although, it should be noted, even this document was signed by them illegally, since at that time the unlucky Armenian government voluntarily resigned, giving way to a coalition government of local Bolsheviks and moderate nationalists.
The Sovietization of Armenia, like Georgia and Azerbaijan, was beneficial not only to the RSFSR and Kemalist Turkey, but also to the Transcaucasian pseudo-states themselves, which threatened to become “hot spots” for a long time thanks to the policies pursued by the national democrats.
I believe that it is pointless to compare modern Armenia, which has once again received “independence”, with the Armenian SSR. Soviet Armenia was a prosperous republic with developed science and industry, and people from it were widely represented in all areas of life in the USSR: in party and state bodies, the Armed Forces, state security, science, art, sports, cinema, etc.
The question is, how could the talents of Marshal Bagramyan, Admiral Isakov, aircraft designer Mikoyan, composer Khachaturian, actor Frunzik Mkrtchyan, astronomer Ambartsumyan and many other outstanding Armenians be realized in old-regime Armenia?
That is, there was nothing tragic in the Sovietization of Armenia at the end of 1920 - beginning of 1921. But it is well known that the Armenian Natsiks came up with the idea that the region of Kars and Ararat was surrendered by Moscow and Lenin personally, and in general, “these Russians” did not want to recapture from the Turks the lands that the Armenian Natsiks had mediocrely lost. Especially if you remember how difficult the hungry and cold 1920 was for the RSFSR.
If anyone remembers, in 1977, Armenian nationalists even staged a series of bloody terrorist attacks in the Moscow metro on this basis.
terrorist attack in the Moscow metro, January 1977
In general, this is no longer a Newtonian binomial - where do the Armenian Nazis grow from dissatisfaction with the Soviet regime: “Leave the goodies, go away yourself, bring back Kars and Ararat that we destroyed!”
With the “independent” intelligence services of modern Armenia, things are not so straightforward, despite frankly stupid statements: “we have nothing to do with Stalin’s executioners, and in general, our innocence was stolen by the Soviets in 1920.”
The first thing to note is the legal clarity of the PR office employees of the National Security Service of Armenia, since not a single court in the world has declared the NKVD-KGB a criminal organization. The opinion of Solzhenitsyn and other odious characters can be neglected.
Further, to claim that the National Security Service of Armenia hatched from some dreary quasi-state structures of a century ago (headed by, at most, staff captains) is exactly the same nonsense as the statements of Ukrainian political figures of the post-Maidan era, that Ukraine and all its state institutions came from UNR-ZUNR. But if people want to embarrass themselves in front of the whole world, then so be it.
All the same, any post-Soviet director of the Armenian National Security Service is a walk from China, far from the level of, say, Major General Georgy Martirosov, who made a significant contribution to the country’s security during the Great Patriotic War, or the Soviet resident in Iran Ivan Agayants, thanks to whom the security of the leaders was ensured The Big Three at the 1943 Tehran Conference.
representative of the central apparatus of the KGB of the USSR Semyon Tsvigun and the leadership of the KGB of Armenia
Apparently, over the past 30 years, the Armenian special services have degraded from a republican unit of the influential Soviet special services into a small-town “security service”, about the activities of which even researchers know nothing.
In any case, the epic failure of the Armenian special services was the unprevented shooting of the parliament in October 1999 by a group of extremists led by Nairi Hunanyan, during which the prime minister of the republic, deputies and even the speaker of parliament, the former head of the Armenian SSR Karen Demirchyan were killed.
Hunanyan and the shooting of the Armenian parliament
The helplessness of the National Security Service of Armenia (at that time - the Ministry of National Security) was manifested in literally everything - from the style of negotiations to preparations for the storming of parliament, to the point that the leadership of the republic turned to the Moscow "Alpha" with a request to conduct a special operation to neutralize terrorists and rescue hostages. , which certainly does not share its fate with the history of the Cheka - OGPU - NKVD - MGB - KGB, with all the good and bad that is associated with this structure.
The storming of parliament did not take place only for the reason that the then President of Armenia Kocharyan gave personal guarantees of safety to the terrorists and even allowed Hunanyan to keep a pistol with him.
Later it turned out that Hunanyan was a recruited MNS agent whose Turkish contacts seemed interesting to the Armenian intelligence service.
Currently, the main interest of the National Security Service of Armenia revolves around countering the influence of Azerbaijan and Turkey. And if the successes of the National Security Service in the fight against Turkish spies are hidden in darkness, then the special services of Azerbaijan and Armenia report from time to time about the capture of “spies”, most of whom turn out to be completely random people.
If this whole farce with the denial of the historical ties of the National Security Service of the Republic of Armenia with the “criminal” NKVD were a quiet internal schiz of the leadership of the special service, it would not be so bad. The trouble is that the department headed by A. Vantsetsyan very obsequiously bows down to the grant-eater Barseghyan, who is one of the main opponents of the presence of the Russian 102nd military base in Armenia, and also influences the personnel pedagogical policy in Gyumri, the second largest city. Armenia...
Armenian orphans before leaving for Armenia from Jerusalem, 1925
Armenian repatriates are loaded onto a ship to be sent to the USSR, port of Marseille, 1947
Armenian SSR. young Armenian repatriates go to study
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