Ruslan KD
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
That's a good point.
Yeah, so I'm ethnically Armenian.
My father's Armenian.
My mother was adopted by an Armenian family.
I think I did my 23 and me, and she's either like Ukrainian or Russian.
So she was adopted by an Armenian family as a little girl.
And that region of the world, I'm sure as you know, north of Iran, right, Armenia is splat in between Turkey and Azerbaijan.
They kind of refer to themselves as, you know, two states, one nation, two nations, one group of people.
And so you have Armenia, which is the oldest Christian nation in the world.
Ethiopians and Armenians always argue who was the first Christian nation.
And you have this really rich history of Christianity.
And all of this is on the backdrop of communism and the Soviet Union.
So you remove God, you remove faith, the government becomes God, communism becomes the religion.
And in...
this weird post-1915 Armenian genocide with the Turks and Armenians, the Soviet Union decided to drop these weird parameters within Azerbaijan.
So you got Armenian, you got Azerbaijan, and then there's this little region called the Nabor-Karagak region.
And it's right on eastern Azerbaijan, but it's predominantly an Armenian strip of land.
And I don't know how, you know, the theory is like sometimes the quote-unquote superpowers does this intentionally to maintain instability in the region.
And so what started happening was there became rumors of Arzis getting displaced from that region.
And then the Arzis supposedly getting displaced from Armenia.