SOVIET UNION
Ter-Matevosyan: Armenians did not need KGB direction to understand what happened to them in 1915
Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan's statement that Turkish-Armenian-Azerbaijani enmity was shaped by the USSR and KGB has been criticized by some circles while appreciated by others. Vahram Ter-Matevosyan, an expert on Turkey-Soviet relations, author of the book "Soviet Approach to Turkey's Transformation" and faculty member at the American University of Armenia, said, "Armenians who survived the Genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire and the massacres inflicted by Kemalist forces did not need the guidance of the KGB, which was established in 1954, to understand what happened to their families, villages, towns, and churches."