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By Nino Oktorino
During the first twenty years of 1900s, the existence of Armenians, one of ancient peoples who
live in the world, almost wiped-out as a nation. Millions of western Armenians, who live in theirs
ancient land in Anatolia, died or deported by nationalist Turks. A chance to build an Armenian
state in remaining Armenian areas in southern Caucasus destroyed when Ataturks Turkish and
Lenins Bolshevist forces invaded it and divided the remaining Armenians between them.