The opening of the Military Trophy Park does not particularly interest me from the perspective of Aliyev’s hatred (not only towards Armenians) and cynicism. It is clear that after Azerbaijan’s and Turkey’s victory in the war, the leader of Azerbaijan must do everything to hurt and humiliate us on one hand, and to prolong the euphoria in his own society on the other.
By the way, as far as I know, no Azerbaijani has stated that such a practice is unacceptable and, in particular, the placement of tortured people’s mannequins is a way to corrupt their own society. The schoolchildren who visit that park for “excursions” will grow up with distorted psychology.
But those are Azeris’ problems. I am interested in our problems. First, the fact that the government that caused this humiliation continues to remain in power without understanding the bitterness of defeat while pretending that everything is wonderful, and “New Armenia” is living in a period of “unprecedented success.”
Second, it should be noted that the majority of our society does not feel humiliated and is in some incomprehensible coma. And why should they feel pain? The answer is obvious. Even on a physiological level, you cannot even think about recovery until you realize that your body or some part of it is in pain.
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Tumanyan wrote about the “national” manifestation of the exact same phenomenon in 1910. “Now, if we have national wisdom, courage of the soul, and healthy instincts, it is impossible to close our eyes to our serious illness while not feeling that our souls are very bitter and our inner selves are very corrupt. The first condition for fighting against that and recovering is for us to sincerely acknowledge in our hearts and in the eyes of the world, and confess that we are miserable. Then, that saving consciousness will be followed by a high desire for self-improvement and honest work.”
If there is no awareness of the tragedy inside, there will be no resistance to external pleasures. At the most, a lot of “sweet words” will be said to Aliyev, towards which the President of Azerbaijan is neither hot nor cold. In this case, it is also difficult to present the problem in the international arena (which, of course, is used by the same Aliyev).
I can also understand the logic of the reactions of international organizations; “What are Armenians complaining about if their government is talking about ‘a constructive dialogue’ with Turkey and Azerbaijan, and Armenian society is more concerned with things that happened three years ago instead of the current situation in Armenia?”
Therefore, Aliyev calculated everything correctly, and the reason for his poor behavior is not the indifference of the international community, but us. If your self-esteem has not been hurt, then what are you complaining about?
Aram Abrahamyan
