Any event, especially those that contain elements of revolution and rebellion has its political dimension, “the reds are good, the whites are bad”, or vice versa. This dimension, on the one hand, is highly variable, relative, depending on whether the person giving scores is red or white. On the other hand, for the majority of mankind, as well as for the history, it is important and decisive of how right or wrong the reds and the whites were with their gallows, and burnings, who started the first, who has answered to what and how, and so on.
History textbooks consist of exactly the kind of battles, and the peoples’ lives seem to have proceeded by digesting the consequences of one battle and getting prepared to the other.
Anyway, there is also a human dimension. Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi was caight by enraged crowd and was tortured for several hours before being killed. Human dimension is absolutely unacceptable, from the political perspective people familiar with the crimes of this dictator would shout, it serves him right. Similar scenes were much last week in Ukraine. Maidan’s uncontrolled detachment had caught a customs officer, tied him to a pillar, and humiliated him. Deep in our soul, we are confident that all post-Soviet customs officers deserve such treatment. But, we are confident until the human dimension joins, which in this case intersects also with elementary notions of legality.
Abnormal luxury of palaces belonging to post-Soviet leaders, as well as Gaddafi’s kind of dictators, certainly speaks first of all about their boundless greed and corruption. Yanukovych was even writing notes on who gave him a bribe: it is clear, the country is huge and he might forget about who and how much has paid. And, now, when running away, they were short of some trucks to load all the most precious stuff. Politically speaking, it is corruption, by human dimensions – pathology. It seems to me, a person having such notions about life can not only work as a president, but also do something useful for the society.
… 77 -year-old President of Uruguay, José Mujica, is living is a humble house close to Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay. He spends 90 % of his monthly salary of 12,000 USD on charity purposes, he goes to work on his 1987 “Folks wagon” car, grows flowers with his wife, and sells them. Hardly, Uruguay is the richest country in the world, by the standards of corruption perception it does not rank the most convenient places in the world. Instead, it can be said that the citizens of this country feel very proud and safe than the citizens of many more developed countries. Merely by human dimensions.
ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
