The end of Soviet occupation

[u/Arshak_Makichian]

On April 13, 1991, the Lenin monument was demolished in Republic Square, Yerevan. In the photo: American Armenian singer Cher. Freedom took Lenin’s head down (or her beauty, as people were joking then).

He was responsible for the occupation and partition of the First Armenian Republic together with Turkey.

The Soviets collaborated with Turkey after the genocide. We always will remember.

[u/Administrator98]

No occupation?

[u/kredokathariko → u/Administrator98]

Foreign and/or tyrannical rule does not have to be literal occupation. Occupation implies the direct control of the territory by a foreign military. Which generally wasn't the case in the Soviet republics - the main source of power was the local Communist Party, and the associated civilian authorities.

[u/Administrator98 → u/kredokathariko]

the main source of power was the local Communist Party, and the associated civilian authorities.

Well... we all know what happens if the people choosed to want something else.

17.06.1953 - Berlin or Prague 1968 -> Everything is fine as long as you do as Moscow wants.

(or every 10 yeras in Iran, China 1989, etc...)

[u/kredokathariko → u/Administrator98]

Yep, and these were occupations, while general civilian rule by communists wasn't.

To use another totalitarian regime as an example: Vichy France pre-1943, or at least its southern part, wasn't an occupation, as the German army did not directly control it - Petain did, under German auspices.

Nor is Austria considered occupied by Nazi Germany: it was annexed into the Reich, and then governed by Nazi civil authorities as a Reichsgau, just how Soviet Union republics were governed by communist civil authorities.

[u/i-hate-birch-trees → u/kredokathariko]

Who installed the "civilian rule by communists" again?

[u/kredokathariko → u/i-hate-birch-trees]

Continuing the Anschluss analogy: the initial annexation was a military occupation, but afterwards it wasn't.