PM Pashinyan issues congratulatory message on Victory and Peace Day

Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan issued a congratulatory message on Victory and Peace Day. As ARMENPRESS was informed from the Office of the Prime Minister of Armenia, the message runs as follows,

“Dear Compatriots,

I congratulate you on Victory and Peace Day.

This holiday is celebrated worldwide with great enthusiasm, love and respect: it symbolizes the end of the Great Patriotic War and the beginning of a new era in mankind’s history.

What was the Great Patriotic War, if not an endless chain of exploits, valiant heroism, combined with appalling crimes that blind the human brain, irreversible loss of life and tragedies that distorted numerous human lives?

For the Armenian people, World War II was as much again a struggle between existence, justice, evil and good, waged only two decades after the Genocide. We suffered enormous losses, but we also saw brave heroes, brave soldiers and officers who fought on all fronts of the war not onl...