DESCRIBES SOVIET ARMENIAN PERIODICAL

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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 19, 2011
• Sequence Number: 43
• Publication Date: September 28, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY USSR -Armenian SSR
SUBJECT Political; Sociological -Publications
NOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspaper
WHERE
PUBL"ISHED Cairo
DATE
PUBLISHED 15 Aug 1950
LANGUAGE Armenian
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DATE DIST. r1 Sep 1950
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DES~'RIBES SOVIET ARMENIAN PERIODICAL
Soviet Armenia, a monthly organ of the Armenian :Soc'letty:foxtlthe~Preaerva-
tion of Ties with Foreign Countries, has been published for more than 4..years
1n Yerevan, Soviet Armenia. The editor of the publication is Badrig Selian,
a member of the Armenian Hunchak Part and former editor of Lra r ~ommunist
daily newspaper published in New Yor~, organ of the Armenian Progressives in
the US.
It is obvious that the editorials of this publication are designed to
spread Communist propaganda among Armenians in foreign countries and tit all
efforts axe being concentrated on turning out a publication in harmony with
thgir tastes. Both the paper and the printing are of fine quality. (The
daily newspaper Soviet Armenia, on the other hand, which is designed for the
1~ million Armenians within Soviet Armenia, is poorly printed on poor-quality
paper, and its contents are entirely without interest.) Soviet propagandists
are considering publishing "agricultural" and "religious" papers adapted to
Armenian readers in foreign countries.
Soviet Armenia has been designed to attract the eye with pictures of
beautiful Armenian dancers, ai^gers~ and winners of Stalin awards, including
pictures of Stalin, Lenin, painters, historical gY~pnps, etc. A special sec-
tion is devoted Lo a~'ticlcG ~itts_n by repatriates praising Stalin, who has
given them "happiness" and elloyrs them to "breathe freely," and portraying
life in the"US, Egypt, Greece and France as "hell" and terming social end
economic conditions in those countries as unbeart~ble. These repatriates as-
sert that if they had remained a little longer in those countries they would
have died of hunger. '
The April issue of Soviet Armenia described an Armenian repatriate?m
Egypt, Hagop Aramian, as a poet who had graduated from the School of Merrxism-
I,eninism, in an article entitled "Repatriates are Armed with Marxism and Len-
inism." Aramian wrote, "A large part of the 2,565 students at Yerevan Univer-
sity being trained in Marxism-Leninism are repatriates," and then he listed s
large number of names.
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In the April issue oY Soviet Armenia, IK. Nigoghoaian wrote: "The I~ashnaks
f Ameri aneambition to conquerithe xo ld~ ThelDaeohnaka in~I,erbanon nddSyriasarees
increasing their struggles against the democratic sad progressive Armenian Organi-
zations, so that they may obstruct the effortlesfat inat Anglo American imperial-
the struggle oY the Near and Middle East peop ga
ism. The Dashnaka~ by intimidation and by 'betraying the meeting places oY Armenian
progressives and their societles~ are attempting to alienate the Armenians in
foreign countries Yrom the Soviet Union and Soviet Armenia."
,_ .a o..,..~prd the P$itorials oY Arev
It seems as iY Nigoghosian is reyeatuag .o... -..-
~rmenian daily in Cairo, organ oY the Ramgavar Part.
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