Associated with the Victory Day, as well as on numerous other occasions, people refer and discuss numerous “adjacent” phenomena that are somehow related to this day, but are unable to change its advice. Let me list these phenomena.
The Soviet Union. A multiethnic state artificially created by the Bolsheviks, where, according to the plan, the communist ideas should be made a reality, an attempt that was doomed to failure, and the state in itself – to collapse. Today, the vast majority of the adult population in Armenia and in the rest of the Soviet Republics remembers this state with love and nostalgia because certain social guarantees were created for these people. However, these guarantees were not economically grounded and “earned”, which became one of the reasons for the collapse.
Communism. A utopian theory, according to which it is possible to build productive relationships not based on exploitation. All the attempts to use this theory failed because in the reality, it is all the same, market relations functioned both in the Soviet Union and other “experimental fields”, which were simply covered by hypocritical slogans about “proletariat” or “popular” ownership.
Stalinism. One of the imitations of using the Communist ideas, which practically resulted in totalitarian and bloody regime.
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Putin’s Russia. A state containing some elements of the listed first three elements, the leadership of which seems to “saving the identity of the Russian nation” by not giving up the negative phenomena of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union.
The World War II. The Nazi Germany was able to start it by using the contradictions between the West and the Soviet Union. In the 30-ies, both explicitly and in “hidden way” were performing as Hitler’s ally hoping that Germany will not attack them.
The Great Patriotic War. A war that was waged by the peoples of the Soviet Union against the Nazi Germany attacking our the then common homeland. A war that is not associated with the communism, moreover, the Stalinism. A war in which our Armenian nation displayed brilliantly. Mixing the remaining historic and “ideological” phenomena with it, I think, it is immoral. We are grandchildren of victory soldiers and we have all the grounds to be proud of it.
Aram ABRAHAMYAN
