The memorial to Marshal Hovhannes Baghramian Monument

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Gandzak / Gandzak

Description
1983 y․

The memorial to Marshal Hovhannes Baghramian, erected in 1983, was demolished some 7 to 8 years later. The same pedestal now bears another monument dedicated to a certain Nabi, a bandit who spent all his life robbing and killing the local peasants, merchants, travellers and passers-by, in complicity with others like him. A gang-leader whose numerous crimes had turned him into a fugitive, permanently escaping the authorities to evade punishment. What can we do? Yesterday’s cattle-breeding nomads and today’s Turks, who are called Azeris, have their own understanding of morals...

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 62.

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The memorials dedicated to Marshal H. Baghramian (photo reprinted from: Ghalachian, K. Monuments of Glory)

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The bust of Marshal of the Soviet Union Hovhannes Baghramian (opening in 1983). After its destruction in the 1990s, its pedestal was surmounted by a monument to “national hero” of Azerbaijan Nabi (known by the nickname of Ghachagh), a bandit who had spent all his life robbing and killing passers-by, particularly merchants, waiting in ambush for his victims on roadsides.