🇦🇲🇬🇷🇺🇸🇬🇧✝️ The legendary #actor Charlie Chaplin was a man of strong moral and ethical values. His humanitarian spirit led him to help the #Christian orphans of the #Armenian and #Greek genocides, driven by his belief in the power of art to touch hearts and inspire empathy.
Some heroes don't wear capes. They wear bowler hats
In the 1920s he raised a significant amount of money, approximately $1 million at the time (equivalent to $15 million today), for these children.
The funds supported established aid organizations caring for Armenian and Greek orphans who had fled genocide and persecution in the Ottoman Empire.
He personally visited the children, and his contributions helped fund vital shelters and rehabilitation centers.
Moved by their plight, he channeled that empathy into his masterpiece, "The Kid," starring a young, sorrowful boy whose character poignantly reflected the spirit of the orphans he sought to help-making his art a form of activism.
Notably, his young co-star, Jackie Coogan, also became a passionate advocate, actively supporting the Near East Relief fund for Armenian Genocide survivors.
Decades later, in 1965, Chaplin's bond with Armenian culture endured. He invited the world-famous composer Aram Khachaturian to his Swiss villa. There, he shared his deep admiration for the music of Komitas.
Opening a box of recordings, Chaplin explained that he listened to them "whenever he needed peace of mind."
He then gifted one of the records of Komitas to Khachaturian, a gesture emphasizing the profound emotional depth of Armenian music.
Aramaic-speaking Christians have lived in Palestine since the time of Christ.
Israel is forcing them out — land by land, family by family.
The birthplace of Christianity is being emptied of Christians.
This is ethnic cleansing.
And the West stays silent.
Between 1964-1987 Azerbaijan destroyed 89 Armenian churches, 5,840 khachkars, and 22,000 tombstones in Nakhichevan alone.
Several churches have been erased in Artsakh as well.
So try again clown.
Thirty-seven years have passed since the Kirovabad (Gandzak) pogroms. Beginning on November 21, 1988, Azerbaijani mobs armed with clubs, rebar, knives, and stones carried out a week of organized attacks against the Armenian population of Kirovabad, then the second-largest city of the Azerbaijan SSR, now called Ganja. Armenian homes were raided, residents were hunted through the streets, and entire neighborhoods were terrorized with the explicit objective of cleansing the city of its Armenian presence. In the aftermath, the remaining Armenians were forced to abandon Kirovabad completely.
These events were not isolated. They followed the Sumgait pogroms earlier that same year and formed part of a broader pattern of targeted anti-Armenian violence throughout Soviet Azerbaijan. The intent was clear: erase Armenian communities through intimidation, murder, and forced displacement. The same logic continued long after 1988 and reached its most brutal expression in 2023 with the complete depopulation of Artsakh, where more than one hundred thousand Armenians were driven from their ancestral homeland in a matter of days. The world witnessed the culmination of a policy that had been set in motion decades earlier.
Remembering Kirovabad is not only an act of historical truth. It is a reminder that the violence of the past is directly connected to the tragedy that unfolded in Artsakh in 2023. The victims were part of the same story of erasure, carried out by the same state and driven by the same ideology.
📷 National Television Archive
Bakur Karapetyan, Walking in Torment
Anatoly Talashkevich, From Sumgait to Ossetia
Grigory Atayan, 1983: Kirovabad on Osipyan
Ce post revient, parce qu’eux ne reviennent pas.
Eux, ce sont les 23 #otages#arméniens affamés, torturés, enchaînés par les barbares #azerbaïdjanais à #Bakou!
Relayez sans relâche leurs noms et leurs visages.
Jusqu’à ce qu’ils rentrent tous chez eux.
En #Arménie!
A survivor of the Armenian Genocide, Yevnige Salibian:
„We have seen all Armenians were deported from their houses. I saw them. Real. This is real. The Turks wanted us out and dead and tortured. They are gone, but I still cry. Those children‘s cry…
‚Mommy bread, mommy I am hungry, Mama I am very thirsty, my foot doesn‘t walk anymore…‘
Still I cry. It doesn‘t go from my memory, never.
I am an Armenian. I will die an Armenian, and a Christian Armenian.
Credit: Ani Hovannisian
Arman Tsarukyan is #Armenian, unstoppable, and incredibly strong. ! 💪🏻 Wishing him all the success
he deserves a true son of a mighty nation! 🔥 🇦🇲 @ArmanUfc#Armenia
☠️ Major Massacres / Anti-Armenian Violence in Azerbaijan :
1. Sumgait Pogrom (February 27–29, 1988)
2. Kirovabad (Ganja) Pogrom (November 21–27, 1988)
3. Baku Pogrom (January 13–19, 1990)
4. Maragha Massacre (April 10, 1992)
When next time you hear “but but Khojaly massacre in 1992” from Azeris and Turks, remind them the above that happened BEFORE “Khojaly”…
⚠️ 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬 ⚠️
🇦🇲 | Armenia Bans Jesus Christ Statue…
Armenia’s government has reportedly halted the construction of a planned Jesus Christ statue, sparking national outrage.
Critics accuse Prime Minister Pashinyan’s administration of abandoning Christian heritage under foreign influence, calling the move “an act against faith.”
📌 A country built on faith — now banning its own symbol.