“The criminal offences of the previous authorities, the country going bankrupt, the impoverishment and emigration of the population are obvious problems. Our society has been waiting for your assessments and legal actions for three years already”. I would like to ask the readers not to read the continuation and try to make a guess – when was this question addressed to authorities.
If I do not reveal the answer, you will most probably think that the question was put by a real representative of the electorate of our current government or a random “Vietnamese”(I mean the governmental “bots”, “fakes”, “trolls” hidden behind Vietnamese names, not actual Vietnamese people). Those two types of real or virtual citizens “unconditionally support” the government for their “splendid” activities, and they need the “previous authorities to be punished” for their complete happiness.
But if you suspect the contemporary “Vietnamese” in this case, you are mistaken – this question was put by a newspaper reader (whether they were real or “Vietnamese” – I do not know) to the president at that time, Robert Kocharyan in 2001. This rather simple style of brainwashing was adopted after the change in power in 1998. Now, when Kocharyan supporters, the toughest oppositors at the moment, complain that the current authorities, while not having anything to be proud of, justify their incompetence blaming the former authorities, they need to remember who started that.
Referring to the period of 1991-1998 as an era of “crimes”, “bankruptcy”, “impoverishment” and emigration exceptionally, had another, extensive negative effect. When that period was solely presented as an era of “cold and dark”, kleptocracy and deprivations, an ordinary citizen would consider those phenomena the only things of significance, instead the creation of state institutions, an army, first and foremost, and the liberation of Artsakh. That belief was reinforced during the actual cleptocracy and the accompanying fictious nationalistic exhortations happening in years 1998-2018. That is the reason as to why the “Vietnamese” propaganda is so effective.
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