SYNDROME OF DEFEATED PEOPLE. HOMELAND IS THE SAFEST PLACE TO LIVE
Lragir.am
03 June 06
The reporter of Lragir.am asked Vahan Hovanisyan, ARF, to express his
view on the murder of two Armenian young men in Moscow.
According to him, we cannot see a determined anti-Armenian policy
behind what has happened because `representatives of other nations and
simply foreigners are murdered and undergo assaults.’ This teaches two
important lessons.
First, the `Russian society is sick. Only a nation suffering a loser’s
complex behaves so. Take, for example, Germany in the early 1930’s,
which started to repress ethnic minorities after a bitter defeat in
World War I.’ For Russia, it `was simply beaten in the cold war and
lost its domain called the Soviet Union.’ Then the Russian people
appeared in a situation when `the teaching of 70 years that the
Russian people are the most progressive, the best people, that
Mayakovsky’s poem saying that I would learn Russian only because Lenin
spoke it arouses laughter outside the borders of the Soviet Union. The
Germans defeated by them live better than they do. They are unable to
solve their economic problems even with the soaring price of oil. This
is the reason why the sick members of the society start behaving
so. The killers, the sick members of the society, shout `Glory to
Russia’, whereas those people, who could really bring glory to Russia,
remain silent.’
According to Vahan Hovanisyan, the Russian skinheads have no idea of
real fascism. `If the founders and political fathers of fascism
Mussolini, Franco, Salazar, who were southern Europeans and close to
the Armenian race, would become a target of skinheads on appearing at
one of the Russian markets.’
Therefore, Vahan Hovanisyan concludes that the actions of Russian
skinheads do not have an ideological ground. `Simply a set of
officials have turnedthis into a business.’
The second lesson is that `one can feel safe and secure in one’s
homeland only.’ Vahan Hovanisyan says though their murder is a deep
sorrow,they could nevertheless be useful. It is surprising that their
parents `living abroad for decades, should have realized that there is
always the danger of becoming victim in a foreign country. They saw it
in Baku but they did not learn anything and again preferred to go to
live in a foreign country. It is better to live a hard life in one’s
homeland than to be a well-off slave in a foreign country.’
The Russian law enforcement agencies say these killings do not have an
ethnic motive. `As the chairman of the Armenian-Russian Parliamentary
Committee, I always raise this issue. I think this issue will become
the key issue on the agenda of the next meeting.’ 2006 is declared an
Armenian year in Russia.
These murders allow Vahan Hovanisyan to conclude that `it is a
hypocritical, a Soviet-fashion false event, and this situation will no
way bring the societies and cultures closer.’
ARAM ZAKARYAN