“To paraphrase Mark Twain, there are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and the number of Armenians who are claimed by Armenians and their echo chambers to have died in an alleged World War I genocide.”

—  Bruce Fein

Lies, Damn Lies, and Armenian Deaths (2009)

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