The more they were oppressed. the more firmly they believed that some day and somehow their day of freedom would come. That day came at the end of the First World War. During that war most of the Armenians in the Asiastic provinces of Turkeyactually ancient Armeniawere deported and massacred. In this holocaust about 1 million Armenians lost their lives and several hundred thousands of the survivors escaped to the Caucasus. the northern part of Armenia then under Russian domination. As a result of the Russian Revolution and the collapse of czarist authority there. Armenians felt free to take their destiny into their hands and proclaim their independence. That was done on May 28. 1918. At the time the Armenians were fighting the Turks. and the population of the country consisted mostly of refugees. Under such difficult circumstances. the existence of the new state was most precarious. But in the midst of insurmountable difficulties the leaders of reclaimed Armenia struggled hard. and did manage to carry on for about 2 years.
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