Despite the sorrow and the suffering of these years of captivity. this magnificent people held fast to their Christian faith. and never abandoned the hope that their day of liberation might come. That liberation ultimately came at the end of World War I. but under the most brutal and heartrending circumstances. In the course of the war. a great number of the Armenians in the Asiatic provinces of the Ottoman Empire were either massacred or deported. In the upheaval of the Russian Revolution. Armenians assumed once again the control of their own destinies. and proclaimed their independence on May 28. 1918.
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