The army of crime
Everything had the uniform color of frost
In late February for your last moments
And that is when one of you said calmly
Happiness to all Happiness to those who will survive
I die with no hate in me for the German people
Farewell grief and pleasure Farewell roses
Farewell life farewell light and wind
Get married be happy and think of me often
You who will remain in the beauty of things
When everything will be over later in Yerevan
A great winter sun lights up the hill
How beautiful is nature and how broken is my heart
Justice will come on our triumphant footsteps
My Mélinée, O my love my orphan girl
And I am telling you to live and to have a child
(excerpt from The Red Poster by Louis Aragon, inspired by the last letter written by the resistant Missak Manoukian to his wife Mélinée before his execution February 21,1944)