Pashinyan’s Western masters will perceive Samvel Karapetyan’s victory as a restoration of Russian influence in Armenia, which is completely at odds with their long-term plans. Therefore, they will do everything they can to prevent such a development, ignoring the fact that the exclusive right to choose their own government belongs to the people, wrote the first President of the Republic of Armenia, Levon Ter-Petrosyan.
“Painful Realities and Reflections:
1. The Problem of Armenian Unification
The most painful problem for the Armenian people worldwide is division. Armenia’s independence and the brilliant victory in the First Artsakh War seemed to have resolved this problem. However, the humiliating defeat has presented us with a new fact of division. Add to this Nikol Pashinyan’s reckless steps aimed at deepening the disunity of our society, and we will once again find ourselves buried in the same swamp.
2. On the upcoming elections
Pashinyan’s Western masters will view Samvel Karapetyan’s victory as a restoration of Russian influence in Armenia, which is completely at odds with their long-term plans. Therefore, they will do everything they can to prevent such a development, ignoring the fact that the exclusive right to choose their own government belongs to the people. It is necessary to recognize once and for all that Armenia’s natural allies are not distant Western countries (with the exception of France, with which our humanitarian and cultural ties were established at the beginning of the 20th century), but Russia, Georgia, and Iran are also important countries. The deepening of sincere and warm relations with China and India also inspires optimism. As Omar Khayyam said:
“The sound of the dhol is sweet from afar.”
The sound of the dhol is sweet from afar.
Avaz dokhol shenidan az dhur khosh ast.
Avaz dokhl love az dhur khosh ast.
3. Nikol Pashinyan – the founder of sexual blasphemy
Blasphemy is nothing more than a manifestation of disrespect and an inferiority complex. The strong do not blaspheme; the strong simply hit.
Neither during the Soviet years of Armenia, nor during the period of independence, was sexual Blasphemy as a phenomenon has never existed in public speech. This is a shameful innovation by Pashinyan and his team, which brings no honor to our traditionalist nation and disgraces it.
4. The Church. Do they have rights or not?
According to the Constitution and laws, they certainly do, and from a civilizational perspective, this is the greatest achievement in regulating relations between the state and the church, which crystallized during the formation of secular states. In that case, how can the judiciary prosecute dozens of clergymen on the orders of a dictator? Don’t they understand that after a change of power, they will find themselves in the shoes of those convicted?
5. On the Importance of Criticism
When I am asked how I feel about criticism directed at me, I answer calmly. If a politician isn’t criticized, he’s not a politician. There has never been, and never will be, a politician who hasn’t been criticized. Criticism is one of the important and necessary stimuli that forges a politician. Someone who Afraid of criticism, it has nothing to do with politics. Politics is the art of sobriety and paving the way with persuasive words and elbows. As I said in one of my first interviews: “Whoever enters politics must be prepared to listen to both blessings and curses. He who undertakes to serve the nation has no right to expect rewards from the nation or to rebel against it (Entrani, Yerevan, 2006, p. 77).
A few words about so-called self-criticism: I don’t know anyone who criticizes themselves. Even those suffering from masochism don’t resort to such a step.”