Armenia

====WWII; post-Stalinist period====
[[File:ArmenianStamps-066-069.jpg|thumb|Armenian [[Marshal of the Soviet Union|Marshal]]s and [[Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union|Admiral]] of World War II on stamps:<br />[[Ivan Bagramyan|Bagramyan]], [[Ivan Isakov|Isakov]], [[Hamazasp Babadzhanian|Babadzhanian]], [[Sergei Khudyakov|Khudyakov]]]]

Armenia was not the scene of any battles in [[Eastern Front (World War II)|World War II]]. An estimated 500,000 Armenians (nearly a third of the population) served in the [[Red Army]] during the war, and 175,000 died.<ref>C. Mouradian, ''L'Armenie sovietique'', pp. 278–79</ref> A total of 117 citizens of Armenia including 10 non ethnic Armenians were awarded [[Hero of the Soviet Union]]. Six special military divisions were formed in Soviet Armenia in 1941–42, partly because so many draftees from the republic could not understand Russian. Five of them, the [[Soviet 89th "Tamanyan" Division|89th]], [[409th Rifle Division|409th]], [[408th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)|408th]], [[390th Rifle Division|390th]], and [[76th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)|76th]] Divisions, would have a distinguished war record, while the sixth was ordered to stay in Armenia to guard the republic's western borders against a possible incursion by neighboring Turkey.
The [[Soviet 89th "Tamanyan" Division|89th Tamanyan Division]], composed of ethnic Armenians, fought in the [[Battle of Berlin]] and entered [[Berlin]].

It is claimed{{By whom|date=September 2023}} that the freedom index in the region had seen an improvement after the [[State funeral of Joseph Stalin|death of Joseph Stalin]] in 1953 and the emergence of [[Nikita Khrushchev]] as the new general secretary of the [[CPSU]]. Soon, life in Armenia's SSR began to see rapid improvement. The church, which was limited during the secretaryship of Stalin, was revived when [[Catholicos of All Armenians|Catholicos]] [[Vazgen I]] assumed the duties of his office in 1955. In 1967, a memorial to the victims of the Armenian genocide was built at the [[Tsitsernakaberd]] hill above the [[Hrazdan]] [[Canyon|gorge]] in [[Yerevan]]. This occurred after [[1965 Yerevan demonstrations|mass demonstrations]] took place on the tragic event's fiftieth anniversary in 1965.
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