I’ve always vaguely assumed that Armenia was the shat-on underdog in this, what with turkish genocide and the overal politics of SOAD, but the sources I’ve found when trying to have an informed position on it all have been dry as hell, and I confess my eyes keep glazing over. And now I’m hearing Armenia is pro-Russia in the Ukraine conflict, and I could really use an ELI5.

… it’s shallow as fuck, but I really like Armenian music, a chunk of which is pretty fucking militant to say the least, and I’d kind of like to know which side of history I’m on if I rock out to it. I don’t super-want to be bopping along to the equivalent of nazi propaganda or having confederate-flag posters on my wall…