The Burial of General Maude

The Burial of General Maude:
"The Soviets postponed the negotiations and then sent a large delegation whose members dealt more with propaganda than negotiations. In September 22 and without a declaration of war, the army of Kazim Karabekir attacked Armenia. After a month's resistance, the Armenian army, already weakened by internal dissention and Bolshevik propaganda, gave in and the Kemalists were able to unite with the Tartars of Azerbaijan. Kars fell on the 22nd of October, Alexandrapole on November 7th. The fighting around Yerevan was quite vicious for a few weeks, after which, on December 2nd, Armenia signed the Treaty of Alexandrapole with Turkey, having been defeated in a war, which she never wanted to fight. The territories of Kars, Ardahan and lktir remained Turkey's and Azerbaijan occupied the Territory of Nakhichevan. On the same day a Russo - Armenian agreement was signed a Dashnag -Communist transitional government took over the country. A little later the revolutionary committee headed by Gasian, who had made a declaration about Armenia being a communist state on November 29 in the city of Ichevan (North-eastern Armenia), came to Yerevan to take over the authority. After living as an independent state for two and a half years only, and despite the geographical and political exclusion of its neighbours, it had become a state of a civilized nation on the way to revival and progress, Armenia again lost her independence which she had acquired so dearly after centuries of slavery and alien domination. The Treaty of Moscow signed on March 16, 1921 between Russia and Turkey, and later the Treaty of Kars signed on October 13 of the same year between Soviet Armenia and Turkey only ratified the Treaty of Alexandrapole. Turkey did not make a single territorial concession. No concessions to the allies also."