Once, I visited the Dukes of Marlborough’s palace- a museum not far from London, where a large hall dedicated to the Battle of Blenheim (Bataille de Höchstädt). It is a city on the banks of the Danube River (in present-day Germany) where English troops led by the Duke of Marlborough won a crushing victory over Franco-Bavarian forces in 1704. Neither the French nor the Bavarians are upset with the British for remembering and glorifying that victory. History thus “doesn’t bother” either side.
It happens, of course, that it “disturbs.” In 1939, on the 1000th anniversary of the “Sasna Tsrer” epic, Yervand Kochar created the sculpture of David of Sassoun (Sasuntsi Davit), which was erected in the square near the Yerevan railway station. However, two years later, the Master was arrested and the statue was removed. One of the accusations was that the epic hero drew his sword toward “brotherly Turkey.” In 1959, there was a different government in Soviet Armenia, to whom the history, fortunately, “did not disturb” again. Kochar’s statue Sasunnsi Davit has been decorating the square bearing the same name since 1959.
Ideology, therefore, does not matter much. Human and national dignity is essential. For the Bolsheviks, regardless of whether they believed in proletarian or liberal “internationalism,” history was “disturbing, ” and, by the way, the church was a “controversial structure.” It turned out that the Armenian Bolsheviks (Bolsheviks, not Communists) always contributed to the advancement of Turkey.
Now, in Turkey and Azerbaijan, Pashinyan is being praised for the wise leader he is: he renounces historical dreams and understands that Armenia is Western Azerbaijan, and Yerevan is “their” city. From their perverted point of view, they present the position of the current RA Prime Minister correctly: he only pretends that the Alma-Ata Declaration is something like a Holy Book for him. Simply, Pashinyan is doing everything to “please” our two neighbors. If necessary, he will say that Mesrop Mashtots was an Azerbaijani.
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In my opinion, the current authorities of Armenia are not pro-European at all. They are complete and deep Bolsheviks.
Aram ABRAHAMYAN
