Nevertheless. the establishment of an Armenian State was significant because only 3 years earlier. 1Y million Armenians had been massacred by the Turks in the first genocide of the 20th century. The remainder of the Armenian community was exiled from the land of their ancestors. The new Republic began as a country of ruins and refugees. The memories of suffering and persecution and the reality of murdered kin united survivors and gave them the motivation and drive to rebuild the Armenian State. After 600 years without a country to call their own. the 1915 genocide gave urgency to the need for the establishment of the Armenian Republic.
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