Vardan Stepanyan, who was later nicknamed as Dushman (Persian: enemy) by the Azerbaijani warriors, dreamt about the liberation of Shoushi since the early stages of the national movement.
Speaking to Tert.am, the hero’s mother, Zaruhi Stepanyan, recalled her son’s promise to seize Shoushi and return home via the Lachin corridor. She said Vardan’s friends would laugh his words off, saying that he had just suffered a brain concussion and didn’t need the battle.
“He was as good as his word,” she said. “They say Vardan took an armored troop carrier after the liberation of Shoushi; breaking prison doors to free the Armenian hostages and touring the city’s church to kiss all the stones, he was suddenly seen missing. They thought something had gone wrong: probably an enemy was hiding in the ambush. But Vardan was found in an Armenian cemetery, pouring out wine on the martyrs’ graves and screaming , ‘Grandfather, Shoushi is liberated … Calm down!’”
Armenian News
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