Zori Balayan is interesting not by himself, but by the fact that he is the expression of our political thought in some direction. This direction, in its turn, reflects some of the sentiments of our people. More precisely, as follows: for decades, Russian and Soviet Empire were conducting certain advocacy through such writer-publicists. This advocacy was directed not only to Armenians but also all the peoples of the empire, simply in our case, due to a variety of reasons, it fell on a fertile ground and formed the mood of part of Armenians, which, in turn, gives a certain social order to our figures. The connection, as they say, is dialectical.
This sense of this advocacy, manner of thinking, and direction political mind is the following: we need to explain to superstates (not necessarily to Russia) that we are good and fair, that we have suffered in vain throughout the history, that looking at us with “a good eye” generates from the interests of superstates, and we, will, as a compensation to it, will serve it to our best, and will be its outpost. Naturally, under this logic, it is necessary to write open letters to all the mighty of the world, first and foremost, of course, to the Russian tsars.
The history has repeatedly proved the bankruptcy of this approach, the absence of having your independent game (of course, which takes into account the realities, of course, “with the size of your blanket”) results in your becoming a very uninteresting to everyone. As, in the present case, if Artsakh is Russia’s problem, the Azeri and others should have to deal not with us, but Russia. In other words, you are voluntarily depriving yourself from being a factor. Fortunately, in 1988-1994, the “Karabakh” Committee was far from that delusion.
It seems that the Republican Party should be the most to rebel against Zori Balayan’s approaches. Ashot Navasardayn was even criticizing the “Karabakh” Committee and the Armenian National Movement for not being sufficiently independent. It is obvious, however, that the Republican Party has nothing to do with Ashot Navasardyan, nor with Nzhdeh’s ideas, current Republicans mind their money, and business, and have no viewpoint about any issue.
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But those who do not agree with Zori Balayan’s viewpoints, who are followers of a healthy, pragmatic and state approaches should blame not so much on the writer-publicist or the Republican Party, as much as on them. In other words, on all of us. In 22 years, we could not inject state dignity, a sense of responsibility for your own destiny in our people, the society. If you could, no one would have paid attention to Zori Balayan’s letter.
Aram Abrahamyan
