“Look what’s happening in the Arab world, as if they are extending democracy, they intrude with weapons, ammunition, and missiles. Who has attributed right to America to kill presidents of the two countries? What democracy is it extending? Ukraine is one of the former Soviet Republics, once Khrushchev, based on whatever purposes, donating the Crimea to Ukraine. Ukraine is a big and powerful country, with a population of 45-46 million, it has a strong economy, hence, Ukraine can separately resolve its problems. But, as it is in close relations with Russia, these two people together are age-old friends, they have fought in the Great Patriotic War jointly, they have liberated the whole of Europe jointly. Today, the two nations are against each other. This is mainly done by the West, by the head of the United States. The West has broken everything in the world, including the Ukraine,” so interpreted Ruben Tovmasyan, former General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia, in the conversation with Aravot.am, referring to the events in Ukraine. When the events in Ukraine were just happening, Ruben Tovmasyan, feeling the danger, telephoned the leader of the Ukrainian Communist Party, Petro Symonenko, “I have told him to send his family to Yerevan as my personal guests until this attitude to the Communists passes away. Today, the power in Ukraine is seized and there are people among those seized that are enemies to the Ukrainian people. People’s remark is just saying that they have a fascist approach. Look what they did with the Communists, they burned the house, captured the Central Committee building, broke, crushed, and committed atrocities.” Ruben Tovmasyan believes that what Vladimir Putin does is right. “Putin’s viewpoint is right to preserve the Russian-speaking population, its representatives. I think that Russia is treating absolutely right. Of course, there are also western aspirations towards Russia, RF will be the next one. So, the provocation that the U.S. has are known to everyone. 1 million dollar assistance was sent to Kiev. Why is it given for? Of course, a great sin is attributed to the one who is considered the President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych. In fact, he did everything to make this viewpoint a bigger impetus, and then fled from the capital. Perhaps, the oligarchs, who were oppressing the people, plundered, it is these oligarchs who are again coming back to power. Governors were appointed who plundered people’s property in millions. The system is capitalistic, rotten and needs to be removed from the history. To our question of whether he excludes the possibility of Maidan in Armenia, he responded, “Yes, I exclude, because those who were organizing Maidan, they consolidated more than those organizing March 1, and others. The unity is missing. Unity will lead to anti-government crises, unity will bring to Maidan repetition, and I do not see it in Armenia.”
Hripsime JEBEJYAN
Photos by Ilya Varlamov
