Among numerous rhetorical questions (“What to do?”, “Who is guilty?”) of Russian intelligentsia, there is also one, which is not voiced so often: “When has all of this started?” The question “Who is guilty?” seems destructive to me. We are looking for guilty from morning until night, condemn people rather than the evil, attach labels to them, scourge and so on. The question “What to do?” is, of course, meaningful if it is not about the not so talented novel by a Russian writer, where he suggests demonic-revolutionary solutions. It’s worth thinking over the question “How did it happen?,” but again, most likely to prevent future disasters rather than blaming individuals. To the point, one of the disasters in Russia – the Bolsheviks’ bloody and then bloodless terror – began from this very “taking an ax” calls. Indeed, people do not notice how the disaster comes, in the face of, let’s say, the “Islamic state”, hundreds of thousands of refugees, or the same Ukrainian crisis. And when the bomb explodes, people wonder, “Oh, how did it happened?” The first symptoms of the disease usually do not say anything to us, we notice the disaster when it is too late.
Could the two neighboring peoples – Armenians and Azerbaijanis – not lead the situation to a war? I guess, they could. How did it happen that they could not do it, let the historians decide? But now, they are unable to decide anything because the war goes on, and under this situation, the question “How did it start?” will turn into reciprocal blaming. In other words, exactly what it is going on now: they shoot and kill our civilians, we have to respond and (I do not doubt) kill their citizens. And so far, it is not obvious how we are going to stop this bloody mechanism.
Why is there a corruption, impunity, stubbornness, cynicism in Armenia’s state structures? The reasons, naturally, are varied, but one of the most recent stimuli was the fact that in the early 90’s, a decision was made to pardon or, at least, treat mild with those who are the representatives of “our political team”. The opposite was done in Singapore.
Why has our society become so much stupid and rabiz? Again, the reasons are thousands. But one of them, in my opinion, was the closure of A1+ in 2002. The matter is not that I or any employee of the TV company is left without bread and butter or is jobless. The matter is much deeper and not private. When you begin controlling everything very strictly, people gradually lose their ability to think independently.
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Aram ABRAHAMYAN
