Trouble in the Neighborhood: Armenia’s neighbor, the “key” to the Middle East
In the late 1940s when the Soviet Union was in the zenith of its might, a prominent figure of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun), Ruben, who had emigrated abroad after the sovetization of Armenia, began his research of a seemingly absurd statement: “When the USSR collapses and old national states revive and new national states appear on its ruins, independent Armenia will face difficult problems connected with its vulnerable transport and communication situation; it will be necessary to develop the Russia-Armenia-Iran axis, however for this axis to work really, it will be necessary to return western lands to Armenia.”
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