Falsifiers Of Armenian History

These are only few samples out of hundreds of gross falsifications by J. Russell, N. Garsoian, R. Thomson, P. Cowe, R.Suny, R. Hovannisian. These falsifications of Armenian History and Culture are “taught” to Armenian students in Armenian classrooms in U.S. universities! THIS KIND OF ANTI-SCHOLASTIC AND ANTI-ARMENIAN POLITICAL AGENDA MUST END NOW!

There are countless gross mistakes in this textbook. The book (J. Russell) calls the Armenian people “colonists” (Vol. I, page 23-24) in their own Motherland, who have “overran” the native “Hurro-Urarteans.” The textbook (J. Russell) falsely “teaches” (Vol. I, page 27) that the Fortress of Erebuni was erected by Argishti the Second, when in fact – the fortress was built by Argishti the First. Furthermore, the book (N. Garsoian) states (Vol. I, page 42) that during the Yervanduni dynasty (5th to 2nd centuries BC) the Armenians did not have cities. (Garsoian also falsely states that the Yervanduni dynasty is not Armenian). In the ninth chapter (R. Thomson), 5th century Armenian historians are called “extremely shadowy figures” who “cannot be taken at face value.” Furthermore, the same author (Vol. I, page 215) calls the Father of Armenian History, a pseudo-historian who never lived in the 5th century. In the chapter on the medieval Armenian literature and culture (Vol. I, page 295), the author (P. Cowe) reaches new heights of treachery by presenting giants of Armenian culture like Kostandin Erznkatsi, Hovhannes Erznkatsi and Nahapet Kuchak as authors who “adopted” Turkish, Persian and other Islamic literature. In fact, in the same book, Cowe claims that Nahapet Kuchak is a pseudo-author. He also claims that the Armenian national epic, the Daredevils of Sasun, is simply the later Armenian version of the Persian Rustam Zal. In many of the chapters of the book a number of authors use the Turkish terminology for Armenian Highland and call it “eastern Anatolia” (just one example from R. Suny, Vol. II page 127). The chief editor of this book, R. Hovannisian, in Volume II, page 232, purposefully states (Vol. II, page 232) that even after the Armenian massacres of 1909, Dashnaktsutiun continued to collaborate with the Turkish government and called the Armenians to enlist into the Turkish Army and fight with “valorous deeds” against the Greeks, Bulgarians and Serbs during the Balkan Wars and had been criticized by the Hnchaks. In line with unending unscientific gross mistakes, the book states (Volume II, page 432) that the first Armenian book was printed in 1660, in Holland, when in FACT it was published by Hakob Meghapart in 1512, in Venice.

Vol. I, p. 23

Vol. I, p. 24

Vol. I, p. 27

Vol. I, p. 42

Vol. I, p. 209

Vol. I, p. 215

Vol. I, p. 295

Vol. II, p. 127

Vol. II, p. 232

Vol. II, p. 432