The contribution of the Armenian people to the creation of that victory is undeniable. According to accepted data, about 600 thousand Armenians from the USSR participated in World War II, including about 300 thousand from the Armenian SSR, which constituted 22 percent of the population of our republic at that time. Almost half of the Armenians who participated in the war fought for victory at the cost of their lives.

During World War II, 6 Armenian and 7 divisions composed mainly of Armenians fought on various fronts. In that war, the Armenian people gave 4 marshals: Hovhannes Baghramyan, Hamazasp Babajanyan, Sergey Khudyakov, Sergey Aganov, and 1 admiral: Hovhannes Isakov. About 70 Armenian generals commanded divisions and larger units.

104 (according to other sources, 106) Armenians and representatives of the Armenian SSR received the title of Hero of the USSR (Hovhannes Baghramyan and Nelson Stepanyan - double Hero), 27 became full knights of the Order of Glory (equivalent to the title of Hero), and about 80,000 Armenian soldiers were awarded orders and medals.

Generals, commanders of divisions, regiments, large combat units, combat officers, military pilots and hundreds of thousands of fighters, in other words, children of the Armenian people, sowers who did not return home...

Only one of the 6 Armenian divisions remained in the republic to guard the Soviet-Turkish border and resist the alleged aggression of Hitler's ally Turkey.

Other Armenian divisions, the most famous of which is the 89th Tamanyan, fully participated in the course of the Great Patriotic War, reaching from the Caucasus to Berlin, Courland, Austria, participating in the battles of Stalingrad, Kursk, and liberation operations. Numerous representatives of the Armenian people in European countries, in France, Bulgaria, and elsewhere, in the occupied part of the USSR, actively participated in the partisan struggle, the resistance movement, and became national heroes of those countries.

Of the approximately 200,000 Armenians who settled in the United States at that time, about 20,000 had already fought heroically as part of the American troops on the battlefields of World War II, at Pearl Harbor, and in the battles for the liberation of Italy.

The victory in the Great Patriotic War is, in essence, the victory of all the peoples of the USSR, the allied states, and all of us.

Let us keep the memory of the victory created by our grandfathers alive, appreciate the creators of our old and new victories, our heroes, and be worthy of their feats.