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    LENIN GAVE MOUNTAIN ARARAT TO ATATURK AS GIFT

    Tert.am
    10:09 01.11.10

    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Russian Marxist revolutionary, communist
    politician and leader of 1917 October Revolution in Russia, gave
    Mountain Ararat to the founder of the Turkish state Mustafa Kemal
    Ataturk as a gift, writes Financial Times in article about Armenia
    and its scenic nature.

    Referring to Armenia being the first state to officially adopt
    Christianity and the sufferings St Gregory Illuminator had to endure
    in Khor Virap, the newspaper writes: "'The seventh-century monastery
    of Khor Virap now stands above the pit where Gregory languished for
    13 years. It is a popular postcard, the church framed against the
    snowy backdrop of Mount Ararat, where the Ark came to rest, with
    a foreground of vines purportedly planted by Noah himself. Ararat,
    the supreme symbol of Armenia, now lies across the border in Turkey,
    the gift of Lenin to Ataturk in 1921."




    From: A. Papazian
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