Unraveling 18: Operation Nemesis

Jocko Unraveling

Jocko DEFCOR Network

Worldconflict, History, News

4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

After 30 years of repression and brutality against its Armenian subjects, the Ottoman imperial government used the cover of the First World War to enact a vicious Final Solution to the Armenian question. But despite losing the war, the Ottoman officials most responsible escaped justice and lived freely under assumed identities in European capitals. After so much chaos and bloodshed, many - even many Armenians - were ready to put the violence of the war behind them. But when history demands heroes, it calls them forth. Without state support, outside financing, or legal cover, a small group of Armenian militants set out to avenge the blood of their people.

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0:00.0	This is the Jocco Unraveling Podcast Episode 18 with Darrell Cooper and me, Jocco Willink.
0:07.9	So we are dragging you over here from Jocco Podcast 280, which is about the
0:16.5	Armenian Genocide, and
0:19.3	we mentioned at the end of that podcast that we were gonna talk a little bit about another event that took place called Operation Nemesis.
0:27.7	Quote,
0:29.7	Glory to Him who wielded the avenging thunderbolt.
0:38.2	Saga Man, Tatlerian,
0:40.7	exercised holy vengeance.
0:44.4	He is the symbol of our Nemesis.
0:48.7	And that was a
0:50.7	flyer that was circulated in
0:52.7	the Armenian American communities after this operation called Operation Nemesis.
1:00.8	And like I said, we mentioned at the end of podcast, Jocco Podcast 280.
1:06.5	So if you haven't listened to Jocco Podcast 280, just stop right now, go back and listen to Jocco Podcast 280.
1:15.3	And you'll understand where we're coming from here.
1:17.6	You have to kind of have some understanding of the Armenian Genocide and the effectiveness of it.
1:24.0	It was very effective, but there were survivors, there were survivors that
1:31.2	remembered and there were survivors that wanted vengeance.
1:36.3	Hence, Operation Nemesis.
1:40.2	Darrell, how does this come about?
1:42.2	I thought we'd talk a little bit at first just about this question of vengeance.
1:47.4	It's not a concept that is held in very high regard in our modern sort of
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