According to the common beliefs, spring is the period of death and birth. Winter, embodying ice and cold, is dying under the onslaught of spring, which gives people hope for the best. In March 2018, representatives of different social strata in Armenia believed that by coming to the central square of the Republic, they would change everything. For each Armenian, this “everything” had a different nature and motivation: some wanted to stop being afraid and declare their right to determine the fate of the country; the second were driven by a feeling of hatred for the rulers that was not fully understood even by themselves; the third believed that they were going to make history, etc. Each protester came up with a reason and believed in it, ignoring the simple and deadly facts lying on the very surface. It is enough to mention one of such numerous facts – a self-appointed leader of the “revolution” being a yellow “journalist” and a loud “oppositionist” for his entire conscious life has preached the surrender of Artsakh and the establishment of peace with Turkey and Azerbaijan, no matter what the cost.
The blind hatred of Serzh Sargsyan as some sort of Karabakh vampire coupled with the systemic pathology of anti-reflection displaced a sense of duty and memory from the minds and hearts of those who gave their own real meaningful “everything” for the liberty of Artsakh 25 years ago. Having given their “everything”, they created the basis strategic meanings that became fundamental to national and state identity. These meanings were best voiced by the philosopher-warrior Monte Melkonyan: “If we lose Karabakh, then we will turn the final page in the Armenian history.” In general, the end of history is not about the end of the physical existence of a separate ethnic group, but about the end of its existence as an integral unit – a sovereign who has the privilege of possessing its own state and being responsible for it. In our case, the rejection of logical and valuable existence has always been accompanied by real physical extermination of the people, as evidenced by the ongoing process of genocide since 1909.
The spring of 2018 was unique because it showed the whole world that Armenians are not interested in preserving the statehood. Otherwise, how can we explain the fact that they continued to idolize the “leader”, who actually issued an ultimatum “I will get power, or there will be no state”.
Instead of searching for hundreds of contradictions in the words of this so called journalist, people with a smile on their face blocked the airport, being of vital importance for a country in a state of war. It was a real festival for everyone. Turkey and Azerbaijan celebrated the onset of complete sovereignty loss and colonization of Armenia; outside forces anticipated future experiments and large geopolitical trades around this country; internal feudal lords who fall into disgrace with the past ruler, raised the toast to the “public crib”, and countless amateurs were preparing to “rule” and “lead”. All this was accompanied by people crying out “Dukhov”. It does not matter at all whether the Armenians in the Republic square understood that they were becoming accomplices in national treason, because blind faith is a priori a grave crime.
Six years have passed since the “journalist” escorted by amateurs assumed the throne. During this rather short historical period, they managed to achieve a fantastic “result” – to bring the country to the edge of the abyss and push it down without hesitation. Why did this happen? The situation of a state is a direct consequence of the political decisions made by its leadership.
Since 2018, the superpersonalist regime has replaced the feudal clan system, and from that day on, fateful decisions have been made by one person, having narrow and limited knowledge of politics, economics and international relations.
His only mission was to retain power, which he gained not thank to his outstanding achievements or even as a result of a meaningful struggle, but due to accidental coincidences.
For this type of politician, power is not just an opportunity to control the destinies of other people, but a tool to cover an inferiority complex. Without power, they return to their original mundane role as unremarkable average populists. Thus, being in power becomes not just the greatest asset, but an integral part of being (if there is power, there is life; if there is no power, there is no life). In order to achieve their goals, such politicians are ready to sacrifice the lives of others without hesitation. Now touching upon the specific “achievements” of the Velvet Revolution.
The purposeful surrender of Artsakh and the legitimization of the expulsion of the Armenian population from there. Blinded by delusions of his own greatness, the “journalist” created the illusion among the Armenian population that he was a follower of the“Artsakh is Armenia and that’s it” idea, so that 5,000 young patriotic Armenian soldiers and officers would give their lives to legitimize the final surrender of the territory where Armenians had lived for hundreds of years as an indigenous nation. Having successfully completed this operation, he announced new parliamentary elections in order to receive an updated official mandate to move on to the next steps. Thus, Armenia openly recognized its unequivocal affiliation with Azerbaijan from the guarantor country of Artsakh’s security, which actually legitimized and accelerated the process of expelling the Armenian population from there. In fact, from this moment on, it is important to characterize the current regime in Yerevan as collaborationist.
The destruction of the remnants of national and state immunity and the colonization of Armenia. In an effort to stay in power, the collaborationist regime, instead of reforming the system and rethinking regional and global processes, has taken the line of least resistance – to give up (the country) in order to preserve (power). We are not talking about implementing the most shameful formula “peace in exchange for land”, but about a simpler and more difficult to characterize – “a country in exchange for the illusion of power.” A significant part of the territories of Armenia has already been occupied by Azerbaijan, which is preparing for a new stage – to capture and subjugate Syunik, Tavush and Geharkyunik. Eventually, the colonized Yerevan vilayet will be integrated into the Turkish world; the remaining Armenian population will receive 30 pieces of silver to improve their financial condition, and the “collaborator and his team” will serve as governors of the metropolis with a smile on their face .
Initiating the final closure of the Armenian question. The metropolis is not going to give collaborators the status of governors for the voluntary surrender of Artsakh and other areas of modern Armenia. The stakes are higher – to close the Armenian questions, which means the following for Turkey: to destroy the Armenian identity (destroying the spiritual institution of the Armenian Church, re-writing the culture and history), ignoring and denying the Armenian Genocide by something that will be left from Armenia and closing the last channels of communication with the Armenian communities. Ultimately, the colonization of Armenia coupled with the policy of destroying the Armenian identity leads to the destruction of the global Armenian ethnic group, which will be deprived of all its constituent parts.
Here are the fundamental results of the “Velvet Revolution”, which must be accepted without emotions and doubts. The country and all Armenians are plummeting at high speed. Miracles do not happen, you can’t sprout wings and fly through the air. The main question is whether the opponents of colonization and erasing Armenian identity will be able to wake up for preventing the raped and mutilated state from crashing to death.
