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Quotes from Lies, Damn Lies, and Armenian Deaths — Bruce Fein

born 1943 United States

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Unskewed historical truth is the antechamber of Turkish-Armenian reconciliation.

Lies, Damn Lies, and Armenian Deaths (2009)

Armenians are balking because they are skeptical of their own figures and accusations.

Lies, Damn Lies, and Armenian Deaths (2009)

Armenians have a genuine tale of woe. It largely overlaps with the tale of tragedy and suffering that can be told by Ottoman Muslims during the war years.

Lies, Damn Lies, and Armenian Deaths (2009)

Henry Morganthau, was openly racist and devoted to propaganda.

Lies, Damn Lies, and Armenian Deaths (2009)

To paraphrase Mark Twain, there are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and the number of Armenians who are claimed by Armenians and their echo chambers to have died in an alleged World War I genocide.

Lies, Damn Lies, and Armenian Deaths (2009)

Immediately after the war, when events and memories were fresh, Armenians had no incentive to concoct high casualty figures or genocidal motivations for their deaths. Their objective was statehood.

Lies, Damn Lies, and Armenian Deaths (2009)

To make their case more convincing, Armenians hiked the number of deaths. They also altered their story line from having died as belligerents against the Turks to having perished like unarmed helpless lambs.

Lies, Damn Lies, and Armenian Deaths (2009)

After statehood was lost, Armenians turned to their genocide playbook which exploited Christian bigotries and contempt for Ottoman Muslims. They remembered earlier successful anti-Ottoman propaganda.

Lies, Damn Lies, and Armenian Deaths (2009)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Bruce Fein (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.