Originally posted by MC_Honky
Borda,
WTF are you talking about?? Armenian terrorist targeting Russians? Turks yes. Moslems yes. Not Orthodox Christans. Explain yourself Borda...I'm Armenian.
It's a long one store. He is talking about so known "Armenian brothers".
In 1977 in Moscow happened 3 blasts. The first one at January 8 1977 at 05:33pm between "Pervomayskaya" and "Izmaylovskaya" stations (Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya also named "blue" line of Moscow subway). It bringed more deaths and injures. There was a lot of children and their parents who were on the way to the home from New Year celebrations from the Izmaylovskiy Park (another one station of the same line). The bomb blasts on the "open" not-underground section, so this saved a lot of lives.
The second blast was at 06:05 in 32 minutes after the first one. It was in the shop. And the third one happened in 5 minutes later. Near another one shop on the 25-Letia Oktyabrya street.
Totally, 7 people including children were killed and 37 people including children were injured in these blasts.
Up to November 3 1977 all terrorists were found and arrested. There were 3 men in this group. All of them were armenians. Stepan Zakityan (group leader), Akop Stepanyan and Zaven Bagdasaryan. All of them from Erevan city.
The mostly interesting person was Stepan Zakityan. When he was a student of Erevan Polytechnical institute he created a "National United Party of Armeny" (NOP). He invited other students and they started the newspaper named "Paros" in armenian ("Mayak" in russian). Were they claimed Soviet Union in shovinism and other "deathly charges". This group was also known as "Armenian brothers". Another one target was to get back Nahichevan and Nagornyj Karabah regions to Armenia. (After the WW2, these regions were divided between Azerbajdjan and Armenia due to Stalin's order.)
Before they were arrested, they tryed to blast another one bomb at Kurskiy rail-road depot in Moscow. Unsuccesfully.
At January 24 1979 they were executed.