The Country The World Says Doesn't Exist 

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This story is made new again by the current conflict.

"They know history supports the Armenian, so they destroy the history." Oh my, this line.

Rest in peace Artsakh. I’m sad that I never got to visit, and in a few years the region is going to be a husk of its former self

As an ethnic turk, what turkey and azerbajian has done and continues to do to armenians is disgraceful.

who is also coming back to this video because of the war that might starting on September 2020?

If Artsakh ever does get recognized as an independent country it will be because of eloquent supporters like this guy.

If it weren't for System Of A Down, I'd never thought to look into Armenia and it's history. I would love to visit this area of the world someday. So beautiful, so much history, and such wonderful people.

Rest In Peace Artsakh

Respect to Armenia from an Irishman. Keep up the good fight against imperialism.

After 4 years there is only one video that has made me consider donating on patreon. Edit: college student here, I'm poor

Man this story's heavy, especially for you to tell, and definitely for those living it. Our appreciation for this series can't be overstated.

I got emotional by watching this video. Armenians, i totally feel you. I come from potnic greeks of Trapezounta (Trabzon), which were living there since 8th century BC. They only way to survive as identity, is to maintain our language, traditions, etc. Much love from Greece

I visited Armenia last year. It is a sad country with a sad history. Very friendly people and great landscapes.

Unbelievably high quality content. Informative, entertaining, and visually magnificent. Seriously impressive work man youre a top class documentarian, and absolutely one of the best channels on youtube.

*Azerbaijan wants to know your location*

God help the Armenia! Regards from Croatia ✝❤

Whow. I thought everybody had forgotten this already and nobody cares. Exceptional good work....thank you. Let there be peace for everyone.

Oh so this is what The Young Turks denies happened.

My great aunt is Armenian they ripped out her eyes and tongue and defiled her in the worst way imaginable, she is the single bravest woman I have ever met, she escaped her sister wasn’t so lucky

I learned about the Armenians in my freshman year in high school back in 1989. Have respected their culture ever since. Traveling to Armenia is in my bucket list.

Look at that beautiful landscape. Such splendor.

My country is home to generations of armenian immigrants. Super nice people. They have their own traditions, businesses and ways of doing things. But unlike other refugees, they dont bother people with them. They just adapted to our country while keeping their identity. I have upmost respect for them. Greetings from Bulgaria🇧🇬🇧🇬. We belive in you.

I'm near 70, and my Grandfather served in US Navy after WW1, and told stories of the starving Armenians, and genocide in 1920s.

Lots of love from an ethnic Assyrian with roots in Mardin that used to host a majority Assyrian and Armenian population, I wouldn't be surprised if I have some Armenian blood myself due to the common intermarriage between Assyrians and Armenians in the Middle East

Once again something serious I've never heard anything about. This really is a great channel.

Support Armenia and Karabakh by visiting as tourists and bringing money into their economy.

Omg. Jesus - these people deserve peace. A life. I hope they get it.

Lots of love and respect to the Armenians from a Kurd. We feel your suffering and really hope that you one day get Artsakh back. You have gone through too much and unfortunately we contributed to your suffering back then.

this is pretty sad. wanted to say something funny but that feels out of place. respect to these people. my country finally recognized the Armenian genocide this year. officially that is, the people already are pretty synonymous on it, except the turkish immigrants ofc.

Amazing what the public school system doesn't teach.

Wow , that's quality journalism.

The history of this nation brought me to tears. Great video! I'm Brazilian and have indigenous blood in my veins and these type of struggles resonates here, as in every point of the globe.

It wasn't just solders murdering, they starved the people like in the holodomor. The Armenian genocide was brutal.

This *isn't* about Christian vs Muslim Armenian vs Azeri Right vs Left It's simply about *a people's right to self determination and personal freedoms.* It doesn't matter what race, religeon or ethnicity you are but you deserve these rights.

I like their flag, it has a retro 8-bit Atari vibe to it.

The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know. Thank you for this piece. Highly informative and well written.

To the 4.2k Azerbaijan kids who grew up on a lie, I am sorry to say your roots and back story are as dirty as yellow snow and if you read this and dislike I can already see you backing up a dirty lie

I recognise them and their ancient rights completely. Bless these people

This was the topic of the second to last episode of parts unknown that aired during Anthony Bourdains lifetime.

It is beautiful to see a people remain true to their culture and ancestors despite the odds against them.

Fun fact: Balkan Albania has a small Armenian community of 1,000 who came during the genocide. Armenians who live in Albania are respected. We love learning about your culture. 🇦🇱🇦🇲❤️❤️

They should be digging for oil. If you find oil the Americans will be there to help in a jiffy.

So if you disappear forever now, we know what happened?

Coming back here today to again share this video to as many people as i can in light of the flare up in conflicts again today

I feel so sorry for people like Poles and Armenians who have been displaced and abused so much.

As usual, I've learned more about places that I'll be able to go in 13 minutes than I did in 3 years of high school. I've been to Turkey, so I know how weird their politics and history are, and I've about the Armenian genocide, very interesting series.

Respect to the Armenian Nation. 🇦🇲🇬🇷

Artsakh is Armenia and always will be

Browsing through all the crap on RU-vid it's rare to find gold... but this channel my friend is solid gold! Thank you.

I dormed next to a girl who was Armenian and Jewish, her family history must be so sad :(

I am Bulgarian, we suffered under the Turkish genocide for 500 years and we survived. We understand your struggle and we don't forget! The whole Bulgarian nation is with you!

this documentary was totally awesome it really opened up my eyes to what's really going on in the world thank you so very much. I wish there was something here in the United States that I could do to help those people. If I was younger I would probably take up arms and fight alongside them for as long as I could or forever.

Armenians should have been protected, and it was wrong not to do so. This is why many Christians have been dying for the last couple thousands of years.

Artsakh🇦🇲 - Not “karabakh”

Yes, Armenia is one of the oldest cultures on the planet. The land of NOAH! Serious origins. Yep.

RIP Artsakh.

Rare Earth! I sincerely hope you realize that with this series on Artsakh you have contributed towards the development of peace in the region through communication and understanding! First of all, your research on the issue is so deep and elaborate. Second of all, your courage to stand for the truth despite its consequences is astounding! But most of all, I want to thank you for your involvement. Seeing positive even apologetic comments from Azeris is so rare that I dare say its unheard of! They comprehend their own suffering but are utterly incapable, from what I have witnessed, to see our suffering. Yet, scrolling through the comments I saw positive and sympathetic comments from Azeris despite the backlash that they received in response by their countrymen. To me this is a step in the right direction. I want to believe in the goodness of people despite the brutality of the reality in this region. I know there are good Azeris but reaching them seems to be impossible. A third, unaffiliated, party such as yourself brings a fresh perspective void of any accusations of lies and makes people actually listen. It's the communication that is missing because the hate that I have witnessed by the Azeris is frankly disturbing and scary. They don't even want to hear our side and meanwhile their government; headed by what most would consider nothing short from a dictator, fills their hearts and minds with hate for anything that stands Armenian. The propaganda is real. I have never been to Azerbaijan and as an Armenian I am not planning to set a foot in that country but I read about people who have visited (non-Armenians of course) who write that the main streets of their cities showcase billboards of casualties from the war with zero censorship and with severed bodies and then blame these atrocities on the Armenians. This is unbelievably disturbing! The maintenance of hate in the ordinary Azeri is state organized and it is delivered with such zeal that it's no wonder that Azeris behave the way they do. If Armenian government allowed itself to do such condemnable demonstrations on the streets of Yerevan then there are enough atrocities committed to our people to cover every wall of the city. Our government behaves like the head of a civilized nation like they should but on the other side we are faced with barbarism which is unheard of in this day and age. From what I have read and what I understand the motivation of the government to breed hate inside its Azeri citizens is nothing more than a tactic that the Aliyev regime has found to work in order for him to stay in power. He has been in power since 2003 and he has no intentions to step down. He has made presidential terms unlimited to retain his right to run for elections year after year. But in order to have the people vote for him he uses the conflict with the Armenians because as long as there is conceived threat by the 'bad' guys then he can act like the hero of his people and respond with aggression and war. By having the conflict fresh in the minds of its citizens the dictator can act like a hero in delivering what the people 'want' which is revenge. For them this region is just a sense of pride and for the Aliyev regime it is just a token to remain in power. Now, let me get back to my point. If only there's a fair discussion without toxic government involvement I think we can begin to resolve our differences and the comment section of your video has given me hope. I believe that an Azeri mother cares about the loss of life of her son or daughter as much as an Armenian mother does. I'm sure that the bloodshed is as heavily traumatizing to the Azeris as it is for us the Armenians. But to be able to see each other's sides we need communication and we need to actually listen and your video has delivered both of those things which is why I am grateful!

My family always said a prayer for the Armenians suffering here. Most people have no idea what they have suffered through. And they still suffer. God bless them all! Long Live Artsakh!

This is an amazing video to watch these days. The world needs to wake up and show some decency, when all are uniting during these pandemic, tragic times. And see what turks decided to do! #ArtsakhStrong 🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲

Lol i saw the title and i was like “hang on is that Karabach? Nah im probs just projecting my own culture onto stuff” but it actually is. Thats great

What a story. There is so much in the history of this world that we know little about. I've heard of the Armenian genocide but I knew nothing of Garegin Nzhdeh Dude I can't believe you were wearing that t-shirt! What if some official saw you?

I'm an American who visited Armenia and Artsakh in 2017 and had a great time. Beautiful country with wonderful people who have suffered much but are still strong. I learned a lot and encourage everyone to visit. Love from the USA to Armenia and Artsakh!

With the recent events between armenia and azerbaijan I fear what these horrors repeat again. I really pray for peace in this region and soon a recognized Karabakh State.

This is what System of a Down was trying to reveal to everyone.

The world may not recognize them but we do in our hearts, they absolutely deserve the right to independence and self determination. Long live Artsakh.

Respect Armenians from your brother Love ya all Peace from: Macedonia

This aged well

From this statement onward, I recognize the Artsakh as a Sovereign Nation.

It's painful to watch this after the events and massacres in the last year and to this current day, but your words are empowering and much appreciated. Thank you for shedding some light on the indigenous Armenian struggle!

“Defending whats theirs..with a gun” Damn right

It's utterly heart-shattering to watch this after the fall of Artsakh. One of these days Artsakh will be free and its people will come home.

I am Vietnamese and I totally support Armenian people. Very nice, hard working and successful people.

As a footnote to this very interesting video. 20 nations recognise the Armenian Genocide despite Turkey's fervent denial of the event. Switzerland prosecuted Turkish politician Doğu Perinçek for calling the event a ‘great international lie’ in 2007.

As a greek i almost cried cause of this video

I do recognise Artsakh - when given a choice, at that foreign ministry in Stepanakert, I chose to have the visa put into my passport instead on a separate paper, which is an option. I liked the place and they're always happy when someone chooses to have their visa put in his or her passport. Proud to have it there and if I ever get to go to Azerbaijan, I'll just take another passport with me.

Greetings from Finland. We can totally get it how a people goes to awakening of being a nation. We too thought we were Christians, and Swedes. And then by cultural confrontation, started the realization, that we have a different identity, culture and language, and awoke as Finns. Many nations have never been independent, yet they exist. And neighboring nations often try to annihilate their culture, assimilate them. Same happened to us Finns: we live as a minority in Sweden, Norway, Russia, and everywhere they killed Finns and persecuted our culture and language, telling you can't be a Finn, you must adobt our culture. Sympathy and understanding. Let people of the world enlighten and live in peace, tolerating their differences.

Armenians are our brothers. Love from Greece!!!

Yep this one was it, I just made a patreon account so I could pay you. Your work is incredible my man

I worked in Armenia back in the 90's out of Yeravan. Good people, very well respected by all of them. Positive experience.

System of a Down have spoken about this for years. Insane story...

*Help for Armenia, the world needs to hear Armenia's point of view. Love and Respect from India🇮🇳* Համերաշխություն հայ ժողովրդի նկատմամբ

With the conflict escalating lately, this video has aged very well

Greece and Greeks the world over, stand with Armenia

Long live Armenia and its people!

People who call themselves civilized continue to deny the Armenian genocide. It's shameful. Armenians are beautiful people and I wish you the best. Thanks for another awesome video Rare Earth!

I never knew about these people & their struggles . Thank you for telling their story .

Love to grater Armenia from Romania. 🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴

Dude you need to be on TV this was awesome, please give us more!!! THANKS!!!

Very powerful message! It seems like such an obvious David vs. Goliath, good vs. evil story... and yet, Western media is almost universally afraid to tell it, and especially in such clear, full-throated terms as you. Bravo to you for this!

Once again I'm watching one of these videos completely astounded with tears in my eyes. This series is amazing, keep making it. I'm heading to patreon right now.

Wow....I thought I was informed about Nagorno. Why does American media paint Nagorno as the "bad guys" in this? Horrible. Thank you for informing me. I'd like to help these people. Heading right now to find out where I can send them some funding, if they need. Poignant. Thank you so much.

Well that makes the Baku GP a lot less exciting.

Well, this video certainly hit the spot ............. /pledged

This video brought a tear to my eye... I am not even close to being Armenian, but those people have suffered way too much..

While I am not a hundred percent sure about all the claims made by this gentleman, I as an Iranian Azeri am ashamed of what our cousins in Baku did to the Armenians in Karabakh. They should have stayed as part of Persia where ethnic minorities all get along fine. That bastard Stalin was a Georgian and he purposely did this, as he did to all the other soviet republics in Central Asia too, so they could never challenge Russia and would always stay stuck fighting each other.

in a way this made me emotional.

Artsakh will always be Armenian🇦🇲

We, Bulgarians, find Armenians as brothers, but not because of blood, but by destiny. Long live Armenia. 🇦🇲🇧🇬

Lots of armenians where I live (Sao Paulo - Brazil). We even have a neighborhood called Armenia. Amazing documentary :)