Ethnographer Aghasi Tadevosyan was convincingly proving during an interview given to P.S. TV show of “A1+”, as well as in a set of publications, that “there is the only truth” principle that emerged among the criminal circles and then spread throughout other social layers really leads to a deadlock, stagnation, national degeneration, because it deprives a man of ability to think, create. There cannot be an underworld leader, a priest or a supreme ideologist in social, human relations that will “choose between the right and wrong”.
To say that only we, Armenians, believe in “there is the only truth” empty claim will certainly be an exaggeration. Some of our neighbors do not fall behind in that regard. According to BBC, Ankara mayor Melih Gökçek proposed to rename the Strasbourg, Paris and De Gaulle squares of the Turkish capital, as well as erect a memorial of Algerians “that underwent a genocide”. A political scientist from Londonnotes with pity that voices that would express alternative viewpoints on the well-known decision made by the French Senate are not heard in Turkey. How can they be heard, if there is the only truth? The renaming of streets is generally a good example that denies that thesis. There is a street in downtown Yerevanthat was formerly called Ter-Gabrielyan and now Yeznik Koghbatsi. Bolshevik Sahak Ter-Gabrielyan was convinced that there was the only truth and it was expressed in the Communist Manifesto, but it turned out in 1930s that the only medium of “the truth” is Stalin and Ter-Gabrielyan was killed by chekists during an interrogation. Yesznik Koghbatsi is a 5th century theologian, and he proves in his “Refutation of the Sects” that the only truth is Christianity and Zoroastrianism, paganism and all other religions are wrong. Now, after whom is it right to call the street – certainly, both of them deserve it.
The leader of Bolsheviks had a proverb – the Marxist doctrine is omnipotent because it is true. Subsequently, it turned out that this doctrine is neither the most powerful, nor the truest. It is just a perception of the reality that has the right to exist, as hundreds of other perceptions. During 20 years of independent Armenia almost all parties, the National Democratic Union (NDU) that was an opposition in 1990s, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF), the Union of National Self-Determination (NSDU), today’s Armenian National Congress (ANC), the Pan-Armenian National Movement ruling in 1990s, the currently ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) absolutely denied and deny that they have any spiritual connections to Bolsheviks. However, all of them are convinced that there is the only truth.
ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
