1965 Yerevan demonstrations
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Medal created in Soviet Armenia. Obverse: "Eternal Memory to the Martyrs of the Holocaust" in Armenian. Dually dated 1915 and 1965. View of the Armenian Genocide Memorial in Tsitsernakaberd. Reverse: Flame in urn, 1915/1965 to upper left | |||
| Date | 24 April 1965 | ||
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| Goals | Commemoration and recognition of the Armenian genocide Calls for unification of Nagorno-Karabakh and Nakhichevan with Soviet Armenia | ||
| Resulted in | Construction of Tsitsernakaberd | ||
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The 1965 Yerevan demonstrations were illegal political demonstrations that took place in Yerevan, Soviet Armenia on 24 April 1965, on the 50th anniversary of the Armenian genocide. Historians of Armenia regard the event as the first step in the struggle for the recognition of the Armenian genocide of 1915, and a significant precursor to the Karabakh movement of 1988. The events were the first such demonstration in the entire Soviet Union, and marked "the first time that [the genocide] was publicly commemorated in Soviet Armenia."