[Third and final attempt at getting replies...]

The title is asking a question I cannot easily reconcile myself to. (Forgive me for being a little lazy and not providing sources - they are out there but I just don't have the time).

After 1850 the Armenians living under Ottoman rule started rebelling against their Turkish Muslim overlords (with Russia, France, and Britain's help), agitating to create a Christian independent homeland in areas that were last ruled by them some 1500 years previously.

The Ottomans did not offer an independent state to the Armenians, instead a promise to turn a vilayet (province) over to them to run as they saw fit, as well as some areas that had a muslim majority that would be added to this vilayet (okay, don't quote me on this, it was a few provinces offered to them or one megaprovince or something of the sort).

This plan was rejected by the Armenian parties as it fell short of their demand for an independent Armenian homeland with hard borders. Instead these Armenians allied themselves with Russia, hoping to precipitate the collapse of the Ottoman Empire by attacking it from the eastern front and freeing Armenian land as they advanced.

Now here is where it gets confusing (for me...)

Fast forward to 1920 and the same Armenians have now accepted living within a Soviet republic with limited autonomy (even less than in the Turkish plan) whose rulers are not even Christians but Communist atheists...

Wait... what ?!?

Where did all those patriotic Armenian Christian rebels fighting for an independent Christian Armenia go?

How come there was similarly no armed rebellion against the installation of a SSR in Armenia as there was against the Ottoman Empire during its final days ???

Does history as it panned out seem to suggest that Armenians were easily manipulated by Russian/Western powers into fighting the Ottomans under the pretext of Christianity for the Western powers/Russians' own gain?

Please discuss