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Russian-Armenian Nationalism
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Vahram Martirosyan
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments27870.html
Published: 15:47:41 - 27/10/2012
On October 20 the famous Russian TV host Mikhail Leontief published an
article entitled `Present Day Armenia Emerged Thanks to Russia' in the
Odnako which is full of distorted historical facts and insult to our
country. Hundreds of online comments followed the publication. With only a
few exceptions they are in the spirit of imperialistic contempt often
transforming into blunt hatred, adding to insult, barefaced lies.
The answers of Armenian participants are reserved and argumentative.
I wanted to respond but I could not choose where. The first option that
came to my mind was to express my opinion on the same website. That one is
surprised at the Russian blindness. Nobody likes Russians except for some
Russians. Everyone who can leaves Russia. The number of tourists shrinks
quickly. Russian women are viewed in many countries as an easily accessed
commodity for marriage or sexual abuse, the name Natasha is used to
describe a frivolous woman or simply a prostitute, and Carl Lagerfeld even
announced last year in Moscow that Russian men are the ugliest men in the
world and advised the most beautiful women in the world, the Russian women,
to change their sexual orientation to rid of them.
And now the Russian men (involving also women) are settling their accounts
with immigrants from former Soviet provinces whose countries have a ruined
economy and morale due to the failure of the Russian-Bolshevist political
and economic project.
The main idea of comments on the abovementioned article is that the
Russians do not want to see the Armenians in their country. The Armenian
authors of comments do not respond them. After all, they cannot tell their
compatriots not to go to Russia because the latter cannot make both ends
meet in their country. Others do but they want to live a better life.
After a second thought I decided not to write anything in the wasp nest of
Russian chauvinists where every idea would trigger ten times more delirium.
Especially that unlike the Armenian optimists, including my friend Ara
Shirinyan, having worked in Moscow recently I became convinced that
Leontief's thinking is typical of the majority of Russians. Moreover, the
article by Leontief, Putin's speakerphone, does not intend to discuss
something to find out the truth but to send a message to Armenia to obey
the Eurasian plan of restoring the USSR (even though we are disgusted by
you) because you cannot survive without us.
The first lesson from the publication in the Odnako is that we must ensure
people's living in Armenia for them not to have to leave for Russia. With
such a high rate of emigration the president must live at the airport, and
the prime minister must live at the coach station to assure each and every
departure that something will change in the country, and they will live
better. However, the main lesson is the unchanging Russian colonialism
which needs to be addressed. First, in the media. The Russian journalist
wrote something somewhere we have access to. We can more or less respond to
this. However, we are lucky he did not use TV. 13 years ago, after 27
October 1999, during his show Leontief saw President Kocharyan behind the
murderers. In Armenia it produced a strong reaction. Several more similar
shows on the Russian TV channels would lead to Kocharyan's removal from
power. However, it did not happen because Putin visited Armenia and
supported him. The problem is not the extent to which Kocharyan was
involved in that. The problem is that the Russian TV channel could change
the president of Armenia through our unprotected air who a few years later
gave Armenian companies to Russia in return for the debt. What debt was it?
The interrupted show of Leontief? The Russians did not operate those
companies, and the Armenian side did not demand that they fulfill their
duty.
Leontief's article got a strong reaction in the Armenian Facebook and
newspapers. Aram Abrahamyan said Russia should be the first to reject the
Eurasian idea because they will bring nothing to the state and people
except a bugbear. There is some irrationality in the continuous arguments
of the Russian government which has been unfortunately typical of this
state through different stages of its history. I think we should not only
notice that irrationality but also take it into consideration when we take
our steps. One of these steps is not to allow brainwash, and not to allow
answer be heard only within the Armenian mountains. Especially that there
is some other kind of irrationalism. `The most painful wound of the
Armenian life is the Russian sentiment. Our proletariat expects only good
things from the Russians, be it the monarch's stooge, a white or a red.'
This is the alarmed statement of Prime Minister Hamazasp Ohanjanyan of the
First Republic in 1920 when the Russians were to come and save the
Armenians from extermination after pushing us to the verge of destruction.
Situations like 1920, 27 October 1999 may repeat any time. Therefore, it is
necessary to limit free broadcast of foreign TV channels, namely the
speakerphones of the Russian neo-colonialism, as well as the basic cable TV
packages such as U!TV Select where 15 out of 38 channels are Russian
channels. Business interest should not be preferred to state interests.
At the same time, everything must be done to free our TV channels from
slavish psychology and cultural taste.
From: A. Papazian
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Vahram Martirosyan
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments27870.html
Published: 15:47:41 - 27/10/2012
On October 20 the famous Russian TV host Mikhail Leontief published an
article entitled `Present Day Armenia Emerged Thanks to Russia' in the
Odnako which is full of distorted historical facts and insult to our
country. Hundreds of online comments followed the publication. With only a
few exceptions they are in the spirit of imperialistic contempt often
transforming into blunt hatred, adding to insult, barefaced lies.
The answers of Armenian participants are reserved and argumentative.
I wanted to respond but I could not choose where. The first option that
came to my mind was to express my opinion on the same website. That one is
surprised at the Russian blindness. Nobody likes Russians except for some
Russians. Everyone who can leaves Russia. The number of tourists shrinks
quickly. Russian women are viewed in many countries as an easily accessed
commodity for marriage or sexual abuse, the name Natasha is used to
describe a frivolous woman or simply a prostitute, and Carl Lagerfeld even
announced last year in Moscow that Russian men are the ugliest men in the
world and advised the most beautiful women in the world, the Russian women,
to change their sexual orientation to rid of them.
And now the Russian men (involving also women) are settling their accounts
with immigrants from former Soviet provinces whose countries have a ruined
economy and morale due to the failure of the Russian-Bolshevist political
and economic project.
The main idea of comments on the abovementioned article is that the
Russians do not want to see the Armenians in their country. The Armenian
authors of comments do not respond them. After all, they cannot tell their
compatriots not to go to Russia because the latter cannot make both ends
meet in their country. Others do but they want to live a better life.
After a second thought I decided not to write anything in the wasp nest of
Russian chauvinists where every idea would trigger ten times more delirium.
Especially that unlike the Armenian optimists, including my friend Ara
Shirinyan, having worked in Moscow recently I became convinced that
Leontief's thinking is typical of the majority of Russians. Moreover, the
article by Leontief, Putin's speakerphone, does not intend to discuss
something to find out the truth but to send a message to Armenia to obey
the Eurasian plan of restoring the USSR (even though we are disgusted by
you) because you cannot survive without us.
The first lesson from the publication in the Odnako is that we must ensure
people's living in Armenia for them not to have to leave for Russia. With
such a high rate of emigration the president must live at the airport, and
the prime minister must live at the coach station to assure each and every
departure that something will change in the country, and they will live
better. However, the main lesson is the unchanging Russian colonialism
which needs to be addressed. First, in the media. The Russian journalist
wrote something somewhere we have access to. We can more or less respond to
this. However, we are lucky he did not use TV. 13 years ago, after 27
October 1999, during his show Leontief saw President Kocharyan behind the
murderers. In Armenia it produced a strong reaction. Several more similar
shows on the Russian TV channels would lead to Kocharyan's removal from
power. However, it did not happen because Putin visited Armenia and
supported him. The problem is not the extent to which Kocharyan was
involved in that. The problem is that the Russian TV channel could change
the president of Armenia through our unprotected air who a few years later
gave Armenian companies to Russia in return for the debt. What debt was it?
The interrupted show of Leontief? The Russians did not operate those
companies, and the Armenian side did not demand that they fulfill their
duty.
Leontief's article got a strong reaction in the Armenian Facebook and
newspapers. Aram Abrahamyan said Russia should be the first to reject the
Eurasian idea because they will bring nothing to the state and people
except a bugbear. There is some irrationality in the continuous arguments
of the Russian government which has been unfortunately typical of this
state through different stages of its history. I think we should not only
notice that irrationality but also take it into consideration when we take
our steps. One of these steps is not to allow brainwash, and not to allow
answer be heard only within the Armenian mountains. Especially that there
is some other kind of irrationalism. `The most painful wound of the
Armenian life is the Russian sentiment. Our proletariat expects only good
things from the Russians, be it the monarch's stooge, a white or a red.'
This is the alarmed statement of Prime Minister Hamazasp Ohanjanyan of the
First Republic in 1920 when the Russians were to come and save the
Armenians from extermination after pushing us to the verge of destruction.
Situations like 1920, 27 October 1999 may repeat any time. Therefore, it is
necessary to limit free broadcast of foreign TV channels, namely the
speakerphones of the Russian neo-colonialism, as well as the basic cable TV
packages such as U!TV Select where 15 out of 38 channels are Russian
channels. Business interest should not be preferred to state interests.
At the same time, everything must be done to free our TV channels from
slavish psychology and cultural taste.
From: A. Papazian