One more presidential election was held in Ukraine, the results of which were not put into question by the society, major political forces, participant of the election, and the international observers. Similar elections were held in the former Soviet republics, such as the Baltic countries, Moldova, and Georgia. Can we say that these countries have become a paradise in the result of elections? Of course, not. There are a lot of problems just as much as in Armenia, or, let’s say, in Kirgizstan. These problems include poverty, corruption, and immigration. Let nobody wear pink glasses.
However, in the last 20 years, these nations have been able to make a breakthrough step (if you want you may call it bourgeois-democratic revolution or a bandit disintegration), which allows them to live in entirely different level of ethnic and state dignity, and proceed along the road of development.
They say, if we take this path, Turks will wipe us out, will seize Karabakh from our hands, we will be left without gas, and die of hunger. Today, Russian officials, when you ask them, they kindly repeat these threats. But we have also heard all of these in 1990-1991, and knowing that it is going to be difficult, we have made our conscious choice, and won in Artsakh due to this very reason. Why is this mentality declared “marginal” now? And, in fact, why is cannibalism, which was condemned (it’s true, not completely and inconsistently) 60 years ago, now “respected” by the Armenian elite, and suddenly in modern Armenia, it was “revealed” that Stalin, Beria, and Mikoyan, probably, also Mughdusi, were quite positive statesmen?
If we take the path of these countries, then the current authorities will vanish by itself. Also, the “Magnificent Four”, because the latter is the “reserved option” of continuing the same political line. With regard to replacing each other, they, of course, are government-opposition, but with regard to ideological, civilization and values, they are “brotherhood.” If we take the aforementioned route, it would be very difficult, very complex, and very painful. But I am afraid that the current path is the loss of the state.
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Soon, Shant Harutyunyan will be convicted. I share his ideas. His methods are alien to me. Because the peaceful streets of Yerevan city are also ethnic values to me.
ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
