Russian politician Sergey Markedonov posted such a comment during the Facebook discussion on our situation, “The collapse of Armenian and my Russian authorities are obvious. And the changes have matured and re-matured three hundred times. But prior to knuckling them down, it is desirable to understand what we trade bad for worse (какое шило на какое мыло мы меняем), who will implement these changes and with what medication. Otherwise, the medication will be worse than the disease. I understand that this boring conservatism is causing allergy to many but I cannot help thinking about the price of the question.”
I do not know how in Russia but in our country, the changes have been indeed matured. The arrogant behavior of corrupt officials, paralytic parliament and the political system in general (yet we want to transit to a parliamentary system), the cops not yet becoming a policeman and so on and so forth. All this needs to be changed. Does it matter how? Many people say, not, this is a secondary question, something finally needs to be moved on. I do not think so because it is important for me which direction we are moving.
We should move from today’s violence of authorities to tomorrow’s democracy and tolerance, from today’s illegalities to tomorrow’s legitimacy, from today’s hate speech to civilized dialogue speech. Do you agree? Does the armed group seizing the Police building contribute to moving in this direction, or vice versa? Have these guys not used force, have they not violated law, do they not contribute to sentiments of “shooting everyone”? Moreover, they need collisions outdoors, in Khorenatsi Street with possibly dire consequences, otherwise, people will forget about the existence of this group, even if its members continue giving interviews. Can the government avoid these collisions? Certainly, it can but whether it wants to. I highly doubt.
In the presence of this “consensus” of violence, illegality and hate speech, it does not matter who will win. The current ones will remain, the deeper will be the swamp. The revolutionists will come, their power will last short. Because if it turns out that it is possible to force a regime change with the help of armed struggle, then tomorrow another armed group will pop up who will seize another building, will kill 10 policemen instead of one and will again force a regime change. And so on. If it happens once, it will happen on the 2nd, 3rd, and the 10th time.
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Since there was no space left to keep writing, I will make a very brief suggestion. If you are a political or public figure, a commentator, journalist and so on, do not talk like a lumpen supporting “shooting”. Our task should not be pleasing this class.
ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
