Excavator against eternity: how the colony is at war with the dead

October 2025 ends for the Armenian world with dug-up roads to Yerablur (the pantheon of those who died in recent wars) and Tsitsernakaberd (the memorial to the victims of the Armenian Genocide), which was mutilated by state vandalism.

To dig up all the entrances to the graves of those who died exactly 5 years ago, precisely in their memorial month (October 2020 was the only full month of that war), to disfigure the memorial, which was built with an eye to eternity – this is what the current collaborationist regime can offer the Armenian world in general and ‘nursing mothers’ in particular. In Pashinyan’s eyes, mothers who nursed the selfless sons of the Armenian nation do not deserve at least the basic conditions to make their way to the graves of their sons or their comrades after the rain. And the victims of the Armenian Genocide canonised by the Armenian Apostolic Church do not deserve to rest even in the centre of Yerevan.

It is not surprising that the Turkish satrap is hampered by the bright faces of the guys who fell in the name of the Homeland, and the reminders of the innocent victims of the Genocide, who were mutilated, killed and consigned to oblivion by his Turkish masters. In ‘Real Armenia’ there is no place for heroic deeds and there is no place for the memory of heroic deeds. By a mysterious coincidence, the places of glory of the Armenian power and spirit go further and further beyond the borders of the Turkish vilayet, while the miraculously preserved ones are desecrated and alienated from the Armenian people (such as, for example, the monastery-fortress of Hovhannavank, where the Prime minister was recently declared the new Messiah by the mouth of the priest Stepan Asatryan).

At the same time, everything is much more prosaic. The raison d’être of the ‘Real Armenia’ is the full stomachs of its inhabitants – at least those who are richer. In a system, where taxpayers are now the heroes, there is no place for those who, due to Pashinyan’s dilettantism and collaborationism, did not even manage to pay the first taxes in their lives. Perhaps the victims of the Armenian Genocide would have interested the Turkish satrap, if he could count on Turkish reparations to his own pocket. But the faithful Young Janissary is unassuming towards his masters and is content with thirty pieces of silver and a (still) salvageable skin.

What is happening in Tsitsernakaberd is a demonstration that even the vilest intentions of the current leadership are inferior to their incompetence, corruption and inability to accept even constructive criticism. It should be recalled that the government began to ‘repair’ the stone slabs of the memorial erected in 1967, and as a result of the ‘construction work’ they suffered irreversible damage. All this is done without any warning from the relevant departments, without a contract with the contractor indicating the list of assigned works, without consulting the professional community, in the middle of autumn, when rain aggravates the damage to structures. For all this, the pseudo-ministry of pseudo-education demands gratitude from taxpayers – after all, under the ‘exes’ no one ‘cared’ about Tsitsernakaberd enough to repair it. However, for some reason, only the members of the Board of Trustees of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute are grateful to the government, who continue to remain silent about what is happening. What happens to Tsitsernakaberd, which was called upon, among other things, to demonstrate the split of the Armenian world as a result of the Armenian Genocide, is one of the most revealing personifications of our current state. Without a true, organised national aristocracy that carries our values and does not rely on doles from Yerevan’s time-workers and external bosses, we are unable to protect even our material monuments – is it worth talking about spiritual values?