As the myth was born in the USSR about "genocide of Armenians"

On February 21, 1985 at special meeting of the Politburo of the Central Committee of CPSU the question "About the Measures Connected with the 70 Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide" was discussed. Meeting was conducted by Mikhail Gorbachev who replaced the seriously ill Secretary general of the Central Committee of CPSU Chernenko Konstantin. The first secretary of the Central Committee of KP took part in meeting Armenia Demirchyan Karen also at the initiative of which the matter was submitted for discussion of the supreme body of the power of the country. Certainly, here did not do without Mikhail Gorbachev. Concerning background of a question, it should be noted that for the first time in 1965 on permission of the Kremlin in Yerevan were...