Major General Arkadi Ter-Tadevosyan (Comandos) said during a conversation with www.aravot.am in response to our question whether he had taken offense at the current government, they hadn’t appreciated him, didn’t take care of him, “You know what, I volunteered, I don’t need anything. There was a saying at the time ‘we have fought, we have to rule.’ A fighter cannot rule, a fighter, a businessman cannot rule, everyone should be in his place. If one volunteered, why did one volunteer? One performed his duty. I think I performed my duty; I don’t want anything from anyone. If I was sent on a business trip, I served, I had to go, get a salary, get travel allowance, get a medal, get a title, get this or that. You understand, don’t you?”
In response to our question whether he did not get annoyed, when he saw that some people were appreciated by the government, whereas being engaged in the same activities, he was not appreciated, Comandos said, “You have warm feelings for me; that is important for me. I don’t need anything else.” In response to our question whether he didn’t want to have the “advantages,” which General Manvel had, as he was a member of the National Assembly, he had an immunity, the Major General said, “No, I don’t want it. I don’t have any pretensions to the state, I don’t want anything. It is not my modesty, it is my freedom not to want anything from anyone, not to interfere with anything. I am sitting here and I can express my opinion freely. It is the most important thing. I don’t want to be in the state bodies.” We asked to clarify whether he would be dependent on someone, Comandos said, “No doubt.”
Today Yerkrapahs are closely connected with politics. We inquired whether it was right in his assessment or wrong, Arkadi Ter-Tadevosyan said, “Yerkrapahs, in my opinion, have always been in politics, have always maneuvered. Therefore, it is not worth talking about.”
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Comandos also said that it was not like the government had not remembered him and had not offered any help, “They came, said they wanted to help me, I didn’t allow, I didn’t want it. Because, there are people that live worse than me, it was not like I didn’t need it, we all need help, but there were people who lived worse than me, besides, I have comrades-in-arms who live in very bad social conditions. If they knew that I had accepted help, whereas they were in those conditions, how would it be, it wouldn’t be right. And besides, I think that it is unacceptable жить богато в бедной стране (to be rich in a poor country), I don’t accept that.”
Hripsime JEBEJYAN
