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VARDAN GHUKASYAN AND JUDAS
YEGHISHEH METSARENTS
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments25799.html
Published: 21:27:19 - 12/04/2012
The Armenian patriotic intellect hails an achievement. It was able
to thwart the festival of Azerbaijani films organized by notorious
Georgy Vanyan. To thwart the festival, the troops landed in Gyumri,
joined the special force recruited by Mayor Vardan Ghukasyan including
elderly people, women, children, veterans of war.
Joint efforts cancelled Vanyan's festival. And Vardan Ghukasyan
described Vanyan and the Asparez Club of Journalists which provided
premises for the festival as Judas.
The victory is perfect but who are the winners?
It is clear that Georgy Vanyan's idea of Azerbaijani cinema is not
the best idea. It is even insolent in many ways. Moreover, this idea
does not help promote peace in the region for the simple reason that
this idea interests nobody.
In this meaning, the forces from Yerevan and Vardan Ghukasyan's
crusaders who thwarted the festival did a great favor to Vanyan
because hardly a few people would attend the festival had it been
held. In this case, several hundreds or thousands of people heard
about Vanyan and his festival. Vanyan would hardly think of better
advertisement for his meaningless initiative.
The problem is not the losers. The problem is the winners. And it
is important to answer the question who the winner is. Are they the
veterans of war who were used as a patriotic background for Vardan
Ghukasyan but are, in fact, the victims of Vardan Ghukasyan and his
native party's rule, living in extreme poverty, jobless, homeless,
having to leave their town and country to earn a leaving.
They cannot be the winner. The winner is Vardan Ghukasyan who becomes
a hero on the background of these people, receiving the next carte
blanche for his heroic mayorship resulting in the deplorable state
of Gyumri, the hard social conditions and moral atmosphere, the
criminal-oligarchic government established there in the face of
criminal clans, including the Ghukasyan clan.
Which is betrayal of the country and people, state and citizen? The
festival which does not interest anyone advertised by Ghukasyan
and friends for their sake of their own pseudo-advertisement or the
government established in Gyumri by Ghukasyan who has divided the
city to insiders and outsiders, cherished businesses run by Vardan
Ghukasyan and different clans and wasteland. Citizens gain some
value for Ghukasyan as a background for his heroism or reproduction
of his office, and before and after they struggle against social and
psychological pressure they undergo in modern Gyumri.
Has anyone ever visited Gyumri and inquired about the problems of the
people of Gyumri, how Mayor Vardanik got so many businesses in Gyumri?
Why does the army of veterans live in poverty while the mayor who
claims to be one of them is a billionaire? Have they inquired what
Vardanik was doing during the war?
Has anyone ever gone to Gyumri to address the problems of the people
living there? Have they ever tried to support the solution of their
problems? Has anyone cared what happened to the child who was missing
and was later found dead immediately after the criminal shooting
incident involving the son of the mayor of Gyumri?
Who is Judas? What is patriotism? Who is the winner? Who is the
real loser?
From: A. Papazian
YEGHISHEH METSARENTS
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments25799.html
Published: 21:27:19 - 12/04/2012
The Armenian patriotic intellect hails an achievement. It was able
to thwart the festival of Azerbaijani films organized by notorious
Georgy Vanyan. To thwart the festival, the troops landed in Gyumri,
joined the special force recruited by Mayor Vardan Ghukasyan including
elderly people, women, children, veterans of war.
Joint efforts cancelled Vanyan's festival. And Vardan Ghukasyan
described Vanyan and the Asparez Club of Journalists which provided
premises for the festival as Judas.
The victory is perfect but who are the winners?
It is clear that Georgy Vanyan's idea of Azerbaijani cinema is not
the best idea. It is even insolent in many ways. Moreover, this idea
does not help promote peace in the region for the simple reason that
this idea interests nobody.
In this meaning, the forces from Yerevan and Vardan Ghukasyan's
crusaders who thwarted the festival did a great favor to Vanyan
because hardly a few people would attend the festival had it been
held. In this case, several hundreds or thousands of people heard
about Vanyan and his festival. Vanyan would hardly think of better
advertisement for his meaningless initiative.
The problem is not the losers. The problem is the winners. And it
is important to answer the question who the winner is. Are they the
veterans of war who were used as a patriotic background for Vardan
Ghukasyan but are, in fact, the victims of Vardan Ghukasyan and his
native party's rule, living in extreme poverty, jobless, homeless,
having to leave their town and country to earn a leaving.
They cannot be the winner. The winner is Vardan Ghukasyan who becomes
a hero on the background of these people, receiving the next carte
blanche for his heroic mayorship resulting in the deplorable state
of Gyumri, the hard social conditions and moral atmosphere, the
criminal-oligarchic government established there in the face of
criminal clans, including the Ghukasyan clan.
Which is betrayal of the country and people, state and citizen? The
festival which does not interest anyone advertised by Ghukasyan
and friends for their sake of their own pseudo-advertisement or the
government established in Gyumri by Ghukasyan who has divided the
city to insiders and outsiders, cherished businesses run by Vardan
Ghukasyan and different clans and wasteland. Citizens gain some
value for Ghukasyan as a background for his heroism or reproduction
of his office, and before and after they struggle against social and
psychological pressure they undergo in modern Gyumri.
Has anyone ever visited Gyumri and inquired about the problems of the
people of Gyumri, how Mayor Vardanik got so many businesses in Gyumri?
Why does the army of veterans live in poverty while the mayor who
claims to be one of them is a billionaire? Have they inquired what
Vardanik was doing during the war?
Has anyone ever gone to Gyumri to address the problems of the people
living there? Have they ever tried to support the solution of their
problems? Has anyone cared what happened to the child who was missing
and was later found dead immediately after the criminal shooting
incident involving the son of the mayor of Gyumri?
Who is Judas? What is patriotism? Who is the winner? Who is the
real loser?
From: A. Papazian