Garegin Nzhdeh was a Armenian brave hero and nationalist, twice a Knight of St. George in 1921-22 he defended Syunik from the Turks and Bolsheviks.
Nzhdeh was not a separatist – on the contrary, he saved Syunik for Soviet Armenia from being transferred to the Turks, planned by Lenin.
He was ready to cooperate with any regime in Armenian interests and therefore in 1944 he remained in Bulgaria and wrote to the Soviet leadership that he was ready to fight with Turkey. If the war with the Turks had started then, he would have been 100% released and he would have been considered a “progressive figure” in the USSR.
Nzhdeh was and will be a hero for the Armenians – and Russians imprisoned him in the USSR, by the way, not for supposedly collaboration with Reich, but, on the contrary, as revenge for the Syunik uprising – the Armenian New Russia.
In a country where they erect monuments to Dzerzhinsky (who killed millions of Russians) and Stalin (the same thing, and also collaborated with Hitler), hysteria about Nzhdeh is some kind of neo-communist obscenity in whose favor it is clear.