Each person has the right to express an opinion and change its opinion. Only the donkey that always, regardless of any circumstances, remains to the same opinion. Hence, “catching” the person that there was a time when you were thinking or acting in one way, but now, in another way is not the best way of debate. But if we are talking about the persons well-known to the public, they probably need to explain why their posture has been changed to make their current view sounds more sincere and influential.
When the adherents of the first or second president’s say that the results of the referendum were rigged, they probably should say that the whole truth that all previous elections and referendums are also rigged with exactly the same mechanisms. Or, at least, they should lie, “yes, there were violations, but very slight, which have not affected the legitimacy of the results of these events.” Especially when the second president’s office is complaining about the forgeries, people may think that this office is against beating protestants but is in favor of executing them by shooting.
For example, I have not properly covered the 1995-96 rigged elections and the referendum based on the false and non-professional stereotype by “the former team member” and because of the lack of experience. Since the 1998 elections, it seems I do not have anything to be ashamed in this sense. However, it does not mean that 20 years later I will be completely pleased with how I work today. Of course, I have many drawbacks, which are not visible at this moment.
When people casting a glance back to the past do not accept that they have done bad and wrong things and justify their conduct or deny the undeniable, it, so to speak, is weird. But why are we talking only about the politicians? Recently, an Armenian singer under the creative pseudonym “Avraam Russo” arrived in Armenia and performed national-patriotic songs.
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But when the same person visited Yerevan in the 90s, he had categorically denied his identity to be an Armenian. Moreover, in an interview to a Turkish television, he claimed that he is half-Turk and half-Arab. I suppose that in those times the interests of the show-business required him to act with this “legendary”. But he should have said it openly.
Otherwise, it turns out that the “former half-Turk” is singing in Armenian about massacring the Turks. It is a bit unnatural. Or, maybe it seems only to me.
Aram ABRAHAMYAN
