Biden could've worn bronzer too. Also I'm embarrassed to admit this but I know that Biden won the coin toss and picked to be on the right side

A pretty interesting book about Armenian Marxist Monte Melkonian is My Brother's Road by Markar Melkonian, himself a Marxist journalist. Monte was a leader in the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) an anti-Turkish/NATO/Israel ML group based out of Lebanon and allied with the PFLP and probably the Soviets. The book is interesting because no one really knows anything about this very secret organization but goes pretty in depth of one of the top commanders who seemingly was involved with many of the conflicts in the middleast from the mid 70s onwards. He was involved in the 79 revolution in Iran and the Lebanese civil war and invasion by Israel. ASALA got started during the civil war as a kind of neighborhood defense thing in Beirut but they expanded their operations through the middle east and Europe. The group eventually splits and Hagop's group carries hired assassinations while Monte's group fights in the first karabahk war, where he ends getting killed. There's a lot of great stories in this book though from blowing up Israeli tanks alongside the PFLP to getting arrested and the negotiation to get him released is we're going to cancel your embassies if you don't let Monte go, which they did.

ASALA is still around as sort of a boogie man but they haven't done anything since the late 90s. The Turkish nationalists often insinuate that ASALA created the PKK, but to my knowledge I don't think the two groups really worked together, but someone else my know more.

Markar also published a collection of his writings in The Wrong Train from the fall of the Soviet Union and subsequent Soviet Armenian Republic and the transition to capitalist system but I'm a lazy butt and never finished it.

I don't think Markar is a academic Marxist considering he never denounced his brother who basically was the like the old school Bolsheviks that were in Stalin's group.

Some other famous Armenian Marxist are: The Mikoyan brothers. One is where MiG jets comes from and the other was a Bolshevik politician active from Lenin to Khrushchev and was a personal friend of Stalin from childhood. He was a negotiator during the cuban missile crisis and loved ice cream more than socialism according to Stalin.

There's Bagramyan a marshal of the soviet union during the Great Patriotic War. He led the liberation of the Baltics

Simon "Kamo" Der-Petrosian was a main member of Stalins group and his biggest thing was the Yerevan Square Expropriation which was a heist that ended killing like a dozen Tsarist Pigs and stole millions. He eventually got caught, was sentenced to execution, feigned insanity and was freed during the revolution where his group was so brutal to spies even Lenin told him to chill.

Sergei Lavrov is a former Marxist and favorite RBF diplomat of the Russian Fed. In the Soviet days he spent a lot of time in Sri Lanka and is fluent in Sinhala. He's more of a hardliner than Putin and was a cheerleader of the DPR and LPR basically from the onset.

I'm sure there's many more especially from the Soviet Union but I'm just going off the top of my head. Marxism was extremely popular in the Armenian community since it was the capitalist faction of the Turks that engaged the genocide. The Armenian community was split between the dashnaks who were the pro revolution social Democrats and Marxists. There were some libs but most understood revolution. The Dashnaks were/are anti Soviet and tend to be pretty conservative nowadays. The Marxists don't really exist in an organized fashion mostly fading away after the fall of the Soviet Union.

Whelp I guess no more Ukraine

It's because they're a toxic burning trash heap

Apparently gunmen have stormed a police station in the Armenian capital.

I've heard from Armenians from the country that there's a lot of hatred towards the police as they really protect Pashinyan and tend to violently put down protests, moreso than they used to.

This also happened a few years ago before the color revolution by a group called Sansa Tsrer.

He's a fascist of the neo Nazi variety. Constantly dehumanized Caucasians (of the Caucasus mountains like chechens dagastanis Georgians Armenians etc). He's basically the zelenskiyiyiyiyi of Russia

Aww, I thought that was a beautiful statue, but history has shown that there can be no peace with bourgeois governments

I agree that I don't think this is just posturing. Ukraine/Russia showed the collective west is a paper tiger. The Palestinian resistance and allies have also shown this.

Peaceful reunification often just ended with the socialists being betrayed as in Germany and Yemen.

Imagine firing an RPG at a tank and end up killing 22 enemy soldiers and collapsing two buildings.

Isn't the president supposed to be the one who establishes treaties and not congress? The fOuNdInG fAtHeRs would disapprove.

Feinstein has passed away. Is there any representation for the 90+ left in Congress?

This isn't a surprise. Azerbaijan has been blockading Nagorno-Karabahk for some time now after they won the 2020 war. Things were dire supply wise in Nagorno-Karabahk a week ago and then Azerbaijan attacks.

There's three main questions in regards to Armenia's response to this.

Whether Armenia intervenes militarily. So far this is a fight between Azerbaijan and the Artsakh Republic, the Armenian breakaway province of Nagorno-Karabahk which developed as the Soviet Union was collapsing and ethnic strife blossomed. In my opinion, this was a typical CIA stoke ethnic conflict job. If Armenia intervenes this can turn into a massive multiyear war much like the first Nagorno-Karabahk war. The conditions that started that war are the exact same as these as Azerbaijan invaded what was the Soviet Autonomous Oblast of Nagorno-Karabahk and Armenia intervened.

Whether Russia intervenes. Pashinyan which overthrew the mafia government led by Cheburashka in a color revolution has consistently distanced itself from Russia and has opened talks with the US and EU. So Russia does not trust Pashinyan, and is hesistent to provide aid that may later be used against itself. In my opinion, Russia kept its distance in the 2020 war until they were sure that Pashinyan had a black enough eye that the Armenians would overthrow him. This didn't happen and Russian peacekeepers are still nominally involved.

Whether the West intervenes. So with Pashinyan dragging Armenia into the West's orbit it will be interesting to see whether that has brought any fruit. I doubt it has, the West want to peel another country out of Russia's orbit and they already have that. Why would they care about Armenia when they already got what they wanted. We can see how they treat a country that has their complete support and I doubt the average Hayastanci (Armenian Armenian not Lebanese/Iranian/American Armenian) wants to be like the Ukrainians. The weird thing is that this is supported by Turkey, everyone's favorite NATO member, so NATO itself has it's hands tied, but Turkish EU relations are low again and I don't know what USA Turkish relations are at the moment.

There are some other questions too, but not massive. Iran has an interest in preserving it's current border with Armenia while Azerbaijan wants to create a land bridge between the mainland and Nahkchivan. Iran has stated that this is a red line that they would intervene, which would spark a whole thing as there are more Azeris in Iran than Azerbaijan. If the Artsakhis decide to fight to the last man like it was the 1990s all over again. I see this as a possibility. Artsakhis are treated like dirt in Armenia, they are seen as wealthier, or at least were during the Soviet era and impoverished Hayastancis weren't fond of aiding them. This is what I've learned from talking to refugees from the collapse. I haven't talk to modern Artsakhis, so this attitude might have changed but I doubt it. What the Turkish role is in all of this. A major takeaway from the 2020 war is that NATO Turkey trained and I may be misremembering but took over some Azeri units

I just hope for peace, enough blood has been shed in the Caucasus. If Azerbaijan wins there will be massive ethnic cleansing. If Armenia wins there will most likely be massive ethnic cleansing. The status quo with less Azeri fuckery along the Lachin corridor will be nice.

Why did we welcome the fall of the Soviet Union ? In two days, Armenians would have been celebrating independence, but it has only brought us violence and poverty.