In the heading where the word “Customs” was written “Marx”, it is neither a proofreading mistake, nor author’s ingenuity made by me. It is just a direct speech of someone, therefore I put it in quotation marks, and this someone is the head of a department in one of our ministries with whom I had luck to deal in the restaurant on the occasion of one of my friend’s birthday party recently.
The aforesaid head of the department, for hours, was explaining us, sitting at the table, the advantages of Armenia’s joining the Customs Union, always and constantly saying “Marx” instead of “Customs”. If he had recited it correctly at least once, I would have thought that the other errors were by chance, but he said “Marx” for ten and more times, and if he had said the word is correctly at least once, at that moment and even now I would have thought that “Marx” is an error.
Now, I’m not giving his name, nor the name of his department and the ministry, not because I do not have anything personal against this man, but also because I do not have the habit and love to discredit people.
However, I sincerely want you believe that what I told is a mere fact and reality, and you must also believe that the imagination of your humble servant would not be sufficient to invent such a story. Although I do not have anything against that official, and I do not consider that it is this man’s fault to be a public official rather than the fault of those who appointed him, however, I want to draw some conclusions from this story.
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My main conclusion is that if the Republic of Armenia has officials of this kind and at this level, it is not particularly significant whether we will enter into the Customs Union, or integrated to Europe, anyway, at this moment I think so, because at this moment I think that there will be winners and losers as in the European Union, so as in the Customs Union, because if you reply not on your own, but Europe and Russia, you would appear in the role of being dragged from the tail of the two, more precisely, in the role of a beggar.
And, relying on others and on those powerful, already intimidates us to become a nationwide way of thinking, or rather, a nationwide disease, and one of our actors, Levon Harutyunyan, very precisely expressed about us saying that a weird organ has emerged in us, being ungrateful. It is hard to say whether this organ has just emerged in us, or we had it before, however, today it is more than available, opportunely, in all directions, and it is a fact that we are continuously ungrateful to the West and Europe that they do not hold fair elections in Armenia instead of us, and we demand from Russia to give us the gas at the cheapest prices, and demand other things from others, forgetting that we also have certain commitments, to the point, not to others, but with regard to our own problems.
Voskan YEREVANTSY
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