“There is not a single Armenian left in the villages”
By VT Editors
What Moscow knew about the actions of the Turkish authorities
April 24 is the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Armenian Genocide. The events in the Ottoman Empire, which began in 1915, still cause a lot of controversy and controversy. Therefore, the first published description of the tragedy and its results, made by a diplomat in northeastern Turkey, deserves special attention. Moreover, they represented Soviet Russia, which became an ally of the Kemalist government.
From the statistical essays on the Trapezond vilayet of the representative of the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs of the RSFSR in Trapezond (Trebizond, Trabzon) K.N.Yusta, March 8, 1922.
(Yust prepared information about the situation in the region for the “Bullet...