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ARCHIVES: Survival Instinct; Dora Aghbalian call to minds Her Family's. Travails below Soviet Repression
Dora Aghbalian guards the memory of a father she last saw when she was just eight years of advanced age
Now a sprightly 79 her life has been defined in many ways according to Nikol Aghbalian, who was minister of education during the brief first Armenian republic onward 1918.
She lives in a cramped apartment facing yerevan's main Marshal Bagramian Street The family house where she lived until the Bolsheviks kicked them abroad in 1922 is now the offices of the subway police.