The fact that Vano Siradeghyan’s topic starts to concern our society from time to time is absolutely logical – this figure is one of the founders of our state. Who wants to see only the bad things in that state, naturally, will make a few biting remarks on this issue. However, I am trying to notice both the positive and the negative things in both the state and the founders of it and since Vano is not around, at the moment I would like to join those who stress his qualities, realizing, however, that the person who worked as the Minister of Interior in the hardest transition period could not be a little lower than the angels in all respects. I started to communicate with Vano unofficially in the fall of 1994 and I can assert that he noticed the drawbacks that were there in embryo at the time already and today they have become a hundred, a thousand times bigger. And, for example, his “Shamiram” pre-election program, which has been severely criticized, in my opinion, is an attempt to oppose first of all those manifestations of the government – did women fit the parliament more than Karamels, Kombikers and Nver Chakhoyan? You would say, certainly, the parliament should be elected by the people and the Ministry of Interior should not establish artificial parliamentary groups – in theory, it is right, but in practice, politics is the art of the possible. Let those who put Karamels and Kombikers in the parliament for the first time in 1995 not pretend that they have always been for fair elections.
Generally, I have had many opportunities to become convinced that Vano was farsighted and already predicted many of today’s vices at the time, when the change of power hadn’t taken place yet and he hadn’t published his publicistic articles. Vazgen Sargsyan once told me “many people praise Vano’s intuition, but they don’t understand that he just thinks very much about important things.” Now, I am convinced, he continues thinking. And if he doesn’t speak, sometimes silence is more eloquent than words.
I share the wishes of those who want him back. However, that he comes back to Armenia, not to politics. His and all his Karabakh Committee colleagues’ hour of triumph was years 1988-90 – their perceptions of the political struggle are connected to that period whether they want it or not. And today we live in absolutely different Armenia and in an absolutely different world. I think that there is no need to prove it thoroughly and highly appreciating those people’s contribution, I think that their approaches are obsolete.
From the moral perspective, Vano’s return will certainly play a positive role. Not to mention, how much the literature will gain from that.
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ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
