Thirst for blood and eternal power

Perhaps, only inhabitants of distant galaxies can be surprised by the immorality and cynicism of Pashinyan and his minions. It is difficult to shame Turkish time-servers for anything, and any attempts to do so only fuel their blood-sucking nature. Profit, sown hatred, the blood sucked out of compatriots literally and figuratively, the tears of Armenian women – that is what the young Janissaries feed on and that is what keeps them in power. The losses, the sufferings of the Armenian world and the views – these are the indicators of the effectiveness of the Turkish governors in Yerevan.

For the annals of history, we simply have to record the latest statements of one of his most loyal minions, Alen Simonyan, so that they forever remain in it only. Thus, Simonyan issued a set of statements in accordance with the classical manual of the Turkish propaganda: 1) ‘you could have stayed and fought, but you decided to leave’ (so do not demand the return now); 2) ‘it was necessary to fight, Armenia fought’; 3) ‘you chose another government’ (allegedly unacceptable to Pashinyan – author’s note), so you are the architects of your own misfortune; 4) ‘I am against a citizen of another country calling the cities of my country by Azerbaijani and Turkish names’ (about why the toponym ‘Artsakh’ disappeared from the lexicon of the authorities). Finally, the minion appealed to his political responsibility and reminded that he was not a mere activist who could say whatever he wanted – and thus confirmed that he still did not believe that he was able to get to power and hold office.

We see no point in analysing each statement separately and explaining obvious things. For example, with these statements, the young Janissary Simonyan once again played along with his masters – both in hatred towards Armenians and in actually accusing Armenia of occupying Artsakh. In any case, all these Armenophobic hysterical attacks represent an attempt to remove responsibility from official Yerevan and Nikol Pashinyan personally for the loss of a key part of the Armenian world and the suffering of hundreds of thousands of people. However, this is not enough. Alen Simonyan almost directly reproaches the Armenians of Artsakh: ‘you should have stayed and died’. Although his boss is allegedly against the ‘martyr-nation’ narrative, such statements expose the hidden desires of the Armenian time-servers. If the Armenians of Artsakh had stayed and been subjected to a full-scale massacre, this would have solved the issue with Artsakh, helped them mobilise international financial support directly into their pockets and would intimidate the population of mainland Armenia even more – to ensure no one thought about resisting the reckless concessions to Azerbaijan.

The Armenians of Artsakh, surrounded by the enemy from all sides and exhausted from hunger, did not accept the Azerbaijani bread that arrived from Akna (‘Aghdam’). In the very first days of the blockade, they took to the square with an appeal to Mother Armenia not to exchange the ‘Lachin corridor’ for the ‘Zangezur corridor’, because they knew what hardships were, and they were ready to endure them again – if only Yerevan would mobilise resources and get stronger during this time. Thousands of people who had the opportunity to leave Artsakh with the help of the Red Cross did not do so, rightly fearing that they would no longer be able to return home. They began to plant vegetables on city lawns and stock up on firewood for the cold winter, ready to continue surviving the blockade – just not to leave the sacred places, not to leave the graves of their relatives to be desecrated by the enemy.

They took an unequal battle, despite 9 months of physical exhaustion and the fact that all the heavy equipment was taken to Armenia, and inflicted enormous damage on the enemy in this battle. Even in the midst of the terrible massacre in the villages, they were still trying to buy time for Mother Armenia, hoping that it would cover their back, at least in the UN Security Council and through other diplomatic channels. Not to mention the fact that they even broke through the blockade in some battles and independently restored communication with Armenia. Some of them could have remained as hostages of Azerbaijan (especially if they had known how ‘warmly’ they would be received by the Turkish commandant and that Turkification awaited the rest of Armenia too) and thus whiten the reputation of Azerbaijan and the Russian peacekeepers, But the Armenians of Artsakh chose not to be a cudgel hanging over Armenia to extract new concessions. Pashinyan did not appreciate their unsolicited favour, although he does not hide that surrendering Armenia out of ‘goodwill’ and benevolence to Aliyev and Erdogan is much more pleasant than from under duress.

Having lost even the illusion of choice and support, the Armenians of Artsakh sacrificed themselves and their loved ones, hoping that they would become the last victims of the Armenian world for the right to live in their native land and build a state. Except now, as Monte Melkonyan predicted, defending Artsakh as the last barrier to protect Syunik and the whole of Armenia, the queue for the title of such ‘last’ victims is much longer. Alen Simonyan expects that when the turn reaches Yerevan, he will already be in Southern Europe or Florida. He is sorely mistaken. The revenge of history will overtake each of Pashinyan’s clique. And the sooner we help it do its job, the more fragments of the Armenian world we will be able to preserve without further loss of lives – and piece it all together anew.