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Armenia's Iron Curtain: The First Republic's Struggle for Survival
Fresh off the collapse of the tsarist empire, the First Armenian Republic faced a desperate fight for existence from 1918 to 1920. This episode zooms in on the republic's founding moment at the Battle of Sardarabad, where an improvised civilian army halted the Ottoman advance and secured a fragile independence. We explore the republic's internal challenges: a starving population, a shattered economy, and the impossible task of building a state in the chaos of the Russian Civil War. Lucas and Luna discuss the controversial Treaty of Batum, which reduced Armenia to a sliver of its…
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