There are countless gross mistakes in this textbook. The book
(J. Russell)
calls the Armenian people “colo-nists”
(Vol. I, page 23-24)
in their own Motherland, who have “overran” the native “Hurro-Urarteans.” Thetextbook
(J. Russell)
falsely “teaches”
(Vol. I, page 27)
that the Fortress of Erebuni was erected by Argishtithe Second, when in fact – the fortress was built by Argishti the First. Furthermore, the book
(N. Garsoian)
states
(Vol. I, page 42)
that during the Yervanduni dynasty (5th to 2nd centuries BC) the Armenians did nothave cities. (Garsoian also falsely states that the Yervanduni dynasty is not Armenian). In the ninth chapter
(R. Thomson)
, 5th century Armenian historians are called “extremely shadowy figures” who “cannot betaken at face value.” Furthermore, the same author
(Vol. I, page 215)
calls the Father of Armenian History,a pseudo-historian who never lived in the 5th century. In the chapter on the medieval Armenian literatureand culture
(Vol. I, page 295)
, the author
(P. Cowe)
reaches new heights of treachery by presenting giantsof Armenian culture like Kostandin Erznkatsi, Hovhannes Erznkatsi and Nahapet Kuchak as authors who“adopted” Turkish, Persian and other Islamic literature. In fact, in the same book, Cowe claims that NahapetKuchak is a pseudo-author. He also claims that the Armenian national epic, the
Daredevils of Sasun
, issimply the later Armenian version of the Persian
Rustam Zal
. In many of the chapters of the book a numberof authors use the Turkish terminology for Armenian Highland and call it “eastern Anatolia”
(just oneexample from R. Suny,
Vol. II page 127
). The chief editor of this book, R. Hovannisian, in Volume II, page232, purposefully states
(Vol. II, page 232)
that even after the Armenian massacres of 1909, Dashnaktsutiuncontinued to collaborate with the Turkish government and called the Armenians to enlist into the TurkishArmy and fight with “valorous deeds” against the Greeks, Bulgarians and Serbs during the Balkan Warsand had been criticized by the Hnchaks. In line with unending unscientific gross mistakes, the book states(Volume II, page 432) that the first Armenian book was printed in 1660, in Holland, when in FACT it waspublished by Hakob Meghapart in 1512, in Venice.
These are only
few samples out of hundreds of gross falsifications
by J. Russell, N. Garsoian, R. Thomson,P. Cowe, R.Suny, R. Hovannisian.
These falsifications of Armenian History andCulture are “taught” to Armenian students inArmenian classrooms in U.S. universities!
THIS KIND OF ANTI-SCHOLASTIC AND ANTI-ARMENIANPOLITICAL AGENDA MUST END NOW!
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