NO SUMMARY
Aram Abrahamian
Aravot, Armenia
Nov 16 2006
Writer and statesman Vano Siradeghian’s sixtieth anniversary will
be celebrated on Monday. As a media, we don’t want to be engaged in
anyone’s apology, even in his birthday. We simply fix the reality.
And the reality is that Vano, as well as the rest of members of
"Karabakh committee" are a politician of revolutionary period with all
his inherent mistakes. He is one of those politicians who intended and
achieved the revolution but not of those ones who take advantage of
its results. Negative is much more than positive in every revolution,
willfulness, injustice, despotism are unavoidable there. But let’s
compare how the ’90’s of the previous century passed in Georgia and
Azerbaijan, and we’ll be sure that the team where Vano Siradeghian
played a core role was much more responsible and wiser.
Why do the current authorities hate Vano and why did launch a
propagandizing hysteria against him after coming to power? I think,
besides the aspiration to black the past, psychological complexes
also play a great role here. In post revolutionary period, dull, more
common people come to replace politicians of large scale, and they
express their dullness in rage towards the formers. A medium pupil
may keep silence for 10 years and wait when his excellent classmate
will miss and give him and opportunity to demonstrate his envy. Just
in the same nowadays intellectuals /for example Levon Ananian/ for
pleasing the authority complain how ANM has pursued them by "they
were bad but you are good" transparent pretext.
As every bright person, Vano also mustn’t be identified with his
party. And more, when the opposition was holding demonstrations in 1994
against Vano, the ANM ruling cliques exulted at the curses addressed
to him. And the opposite, when the first scenes of rat race became
visible he began ruling the ANM, and if there is a party by that name,
it is Vano’s merit.
I’m sure, his political biography isn’t over yet, and so it isn’t
the time to summarize. Let’s simply congratulate his birth anniversary.