Vazgen Manukyan started his political activity with protest against Turkey in 1967, opposition movement says

Panorama, Armenia

Feb 6 2021

Armenia’s opposition Homeland Salvation Movement on Friday released a video telling about the political activity of the coalition’s candidate for interim prime minister, statesman Vazgen Manukyan.

On 24 April 1967, Vazgen Manukyan, who was then studying at the Moscow State University, staged a protest along with a group of his friends in front of the Turkish Embassy in Moscow, the video said.

The demonstration was unprecedented and prompted a widespread reaction in the Soviet Union, after which Vazgen Manukyan was expelled from the university.

This marks the beginning of his political activity, the movement noted.

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS