When I was writing about the three generations: purely Soviet, semi-Soviet (our) and independent (young), I did not mean that the first two lack in virtues or services. I am not talking about “good” and “bad”, the problem is the presence or absence of today’s consistent thinking. To make it more simple, for example, it can be said that the older generation thinks that we should continue begging Russians their promised 200 million’s worth weapons without realizing it, as said in the language of this nation, is a lost cause (гиблое дело). The average generation believes that perhaps it is time to think about alternatives. Young generation is just fighting with the weapon that they have, not getting into the details of the question whether their state is good or bad, in all cases it is THEIR STATE.
Specifically with regard to weapons, it is clear that we must buy it from other places and create our own as possible. Hundreds of young professionals just like their peers are fighting in the trenches and are ready to work on it day and night. Hundreds of Armenians inside and outside of Armenia are ready to finance it. It is actually a huge and powerful force that must be used and organize.
But who are the user and organizer if number one responsible for our science believes that we are a “shabby country”. Radik Martirosyan is number one and purely Soviet-mindset representative among those whom I mentioned. We should not throw stones at him, insult and so on, we must demand his honorary retirement and be replaced by someone who perhaps does not wear the meaningless “straps” of a Soviet academician but realizes that he is the head of the sciences of a country in war. The man of this new generation may not be a good physicist but he must realize the National Academy of Sciences is not a “social security body for pensioners” but an important structure whose “product” in one way or another must serve the soldier standing up in the trench.
If Armenia’s main state institutions are living by the mentality of “stealing something” of the 1990s, then the Academy of Sciences headed by Radik Martirosyan is living still in the 1970s, the time when the country was not “shabby” and could spend money on useless things. The retired academicians are demanding “funding” from the state for raising their pension.
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Armenia is not a “shabby country”. Armenia is a powerful country, and there is no exaggeration or swaggering in my words. We became sure of it in 1992-94 and in early April this year.
Aram ABRAHAMYAN
