So thinks ethnographer Hranush Kharatyan
Eurasian Economic Union (EaEU) supporters are of the opinion that the member states of the Union have much in common, including the history and traditions, which, according to them, is yet another reason of commenting for being in the Union. As to what commonalities we are talking about, “Aravot” interviewed ethnographer Hranush Kharatyan.
“EaEU member countries really have at least a century of past, and the most vivid in this common past is the common memory of all of them about the Stalin period. Part of their history include the Second World War and the Bolshevik culture, which was trying to considerably universalize the cultures, for example, all of us was eating borscht and macaroni in the way that the Soviet Union was suggesting, also the canned fish, if we could find them, etc. and all of us were pioneers… And, of course, commonality of thinking and general thinking of resisting this policy is formed in this area. But at the same time, in the same period, the desire to develop peculiarities of their linguistic and cultural entities was developed in parallel, which was more separating these peoples than uniting,” commented she said.
What is often voiced that allegedly around 80 percent of population agreed to the decision of joining the EaEU, the ethnographer thinks as follows, “About 80 percent of people wants this parasite government leave without bloodshed, as well as to live in a country of law, to eliminate the concept of an earthquake zone, the government be formed by proper elections rather than the RPA, with imposed incomprehensible lists, participate in the economic formation of the country, rather than be thrown out by the oligarchs, that the country is not abandoned, that they are nor deprived of the property for the state needs, and finally, that the diplomats be engaged in diplomacy, scientist in science, lawmakers in legislative activity rather than with plundering, that the doctor treats people, the farmer be engaged in agriculture and, finally, about 80 percent of our people wants EaEU, because it seems to them that the EaEU will regulate their desires as such.” However, according to the ethnographer, unfortunately, about 80 percent of our people “selected only this one for execution” among so many desires.
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