Where are we going: to Europe or Russia? The answer is simple: nowhere. Armenia, like all countries in the world, would stay where it is, and I, and hundreds of thousands of people like me, no matter what happens, would live on this land; we would live hard, overcoming different challenges every day, without the expectation of heaven.
Paradise, as we know, is nowhere on this earth. There is not hell either. There are also no angels and devils (Gyumri former mayor would say, the Satan), neither in the internal political life, nor among the players in the international arena. Let’s take the story related to out “strategic partnership”.
Russia exerts pressure on the neighbors for the latter to maintain loyalty towards Russia, believing that the relations within the EU Eastern Partnership are displays of disloyalty towards Russia. It seems to me that it is a wrong perception of reality, a Soviet, imperial stereotypes of thinking. However, tell me, please, when in the early 1960s, Cuba wanted to build communism, whether the United States liked it, and whether this superpower was not doing everything to avoid having a communist country under its nose.
For decades, Cuba was resisting U.S. pressure, which was no different from Russia’s pressures in any form, perhaps, it was more brutal, and almost a nuclear war was to be started. Communism was never built, because although it is a beautiful, but utopian idea, however, the Cubans resistance, anyway, is worthy of respect, and the citizens of this country have earned the right to live freely, and the United States, seems to be reconciled with the existence of such a neighbor.
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This story, once again, proves that there are no monsters and angels in the world. There are good and bad resisting entities, or generally non-resisting. And, the ability to resist depends on many factors: government legitimacy, its ability to explain for what the citizens have to bear hardships, political and intellectual elite adequacy, and so on. Does this exist in Armenia, or not? Judge yourself.
There is and will be no heaven in anywhere. Heaven, like communism, is impossible to build in anywhere. There are just a group of countries (by the way, not only in Europe), where there are more or less clear, understandable, predictable laws functioning, and there are some where the laws of the jungles are functioning. Or, if you use a better “customs” term: “taiga” laws.
We do not need to “go to taiga.” Taiga is with us. Moreover, we can say, in us.
ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
