https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/91MOSCOW13989_a.html

11.  DZHEMA ANANYAN (PROTECT), FORMERLY A VERY ACTIVE 
ARMENIAN COMMUNIST PARTY ACTIVIST AND MEMBER OF THE USSR 
CPSU CONTROL COMMISSION, EMBODIED THE BITTERNESS LOCAL 
COMMUNISTS FEEL TOWARD THE CPSU AND THE CENTER.  RUBEN 
SHUGAROV (PROTECT), AN ARMENIAN SUPREME SOVIET STAFFER, 
TOLD POLOFFS THAT ANANYAN HAD BEEN A STRONG COMMUNIST 
PARTY STALWART IN ARMENIA AND HAS SPENT MOST OF HER 
CAREER ESPOUSING COMMUNIST PARTY IDEOLOGY AND IDEALS. 
12.  WHEN POLOFFS MET ANANYAN ON MAY 15 IN HER OFFICE IN 
THE ARMENIAN BORDER CITY OF IDZHEVAN, SHE EXUDED 
BITTERNESS AND DISGUST TOWARD THE CENTER AND THE CPSU. 
SHE ACCUSED THE CENTER OF CONDUCTING "A CAMPAIGN OF STATE 
TERROR AGAINST THE ARMENIANS."  SHE ADDED, "I HAVE BEEN A 
LOYAL AND DEDICATED COMMUNIST PARTY OFFICIAL FOR 40 YEARS 
AND THIS IS HOW THEY TREAT US|"  SHE SHOWED POLOFFS A 
COPY OF HER PUBLISHED STATEMENT IN WHICH SHE RESIGNED 
FROM THE CPSU CONTROL COMMISSION AND AIRED HER DISGUST 
WITH THE CENTER'S SUPPORT OF AZERBAYDZHAN AND THE 
SHELLING OF VILLAGES ALONG THE ARMENIAN-AZERBAYDZHANI 
BORDER.  SHE ALSO REFLECTED THAT "IT IS STRANGE THAT THEY 
WOULD GIVE THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE TO A MAN WHO WOULD 
CONDUCT THIS KIND OF TERROR CAMPAIGN."

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