My mother was born in 1918, and would tell me as a child (60’s) to “Eat my peas - just think of those starving Armenians!” I never understood that, and she could sort of explain it - but it came down to “I don’t know - but that is what my mother always used to tell me.”
So I just did a search, figuring that the Minneapolis area must have had a relatively large population of Armenians back when she was a child.
Found this excerpt “From 1918 through 1924, another wave of Armenian refugees made the Twin Cities home.” Armenians first arrived in Minnesota in the 1800’s - about the same time my grandmother got off the boat from Norway. But the Armenians of 1918 were obviously in dire straits - so “eat your peas”. The same article said 75% of the Armenians (Christians) were wiped out in the genocide! Even today, I believe that around the world, Christians are the most persecuted religion.
>>the Armenians of 1918 were obviously in dire straits - so “eat your peas”
Armenians. Volga-German-Russians. Ukrainians...
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Holodomor+Genocide
It was a pattern of learned behavior.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=200+years+together
I’ve spent a great amount of time getting to know the Syrian Kurds in the past 3 years.
Some of the Kurds were directly involved in the Armenian Genocide. Others helped some of them escape at great personal risk.
Turkey is a multi ethinic Genocide (Massacre) perp nation. Jews, Greeks, Alevi, Assyrian, Armenian, Christian and more. Now they seek to do it to Kurds.
Would you resist?
My father saw Dachau not long after it was liberated. One of his high school friends was an officer who was involved directly in it’s liberation.
They forced the citizens of Munich to go to the camp so there was never any denial of what actually took place. (Dachau was a political prisoner camp, evil, but not like some of the others) Still it was extermination on a mass scale.
There is a special place in hell for people who commit these crimes against mankind.
Don’t forget the Jews.