Why did the good General leave?

[Edoman]

I am having a hard time understanding this. Why was General Andranik in disagreement with the Armenian leaders at that time and what made him decide to leave Armenia and to never come back??

[Joseph]

I am having a hard time understanding this. Why was General Andranik in disagreement with the Armenian leaders at that time and what made him decide to leave Armenia and to never come back??

Gen. Andranik was apolitical and was disheartened by the Armenia leadership prior to the Bolshevik takeover. He left to raise funds and another army and when the Bolsheviks took over, they would have killed him if he returned. The same goes for Dro.

[Edoman]

Thanks for your response Joseph.
It appears to me that Antranik felt betrayed by the Allies and the un-nationalistic views of the Armenian leaders at the time wanting to side with communism as protection which he was against. He held the Turks back for 8 months from taking the Baku oil fields which if they would have succeded WWI would have ended much differently. He got backstabbed. When the war ended and all the diplomats started their negotiations Antranik was lost. He was a soldier and an Armenian so who cared to uphold their end of the bargain to him.
Nobody cared for an Armenian nation as it was promised to him. Russians killed our military leaders and paraded in our streets announcing that the Turks could never hurt us again. We bought it. He was hunted by Turkish nationalists with a big bounty on his head so he came here to California, a bitter angry disappointed man. A great man fallen to nothing, a soldier in a helpless world full of cheap and false peace deals drowning in Hypocrisy. Betrayal of a General, his people and his Nation. Please correct me if I am wrong. I want to understand this. By the way, who is Dro?