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ARMENIANS ARGUE OVER STATUE TO STALIN OFFICIAL
The Conway Bulletin
June 16 2014
Jun 15, 2014
YEREVAN, June 11 (The Conway Bulletin) - Armenia intends to honour
Anastas Mikoyan, a senior member of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's
government, by erecting a statue of him in the centre of Yerevan.
Many Armenians, though, are appalled by the decision to build a statue
to Mikoyan -- a man accused of signing the death warrants of hundreds
of his countrymen in the 1930s during the so-called purges. They
suspect it is part of a wider plot to curry favour with Russia where
Stalin and his associates have experienced something of a resurgence
in popularity.
Armenia views Russia as a key ally, ensuring that there is a
military balance with Azerbaijan in the South Caucasus and offering
the sugar-sweet potential of joining its Eurasian Economic Union,
which also includes Kazakhstan and Belarus.
With a hint of dry irony, Alina Abrahamyan, a 35-year-old historian,
said: "This is another brilliant example of crawling under Moscow's
feet. Or it is just Moscow's decision to erect Mikoyan's monument in
its Armenian suburb?"
Mikoyan was a Bolshevik and Soviet statesman who served under Vladimir
Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, and Leonid Brezhnev. Mikoyan
was the only Soviet politician to remain at the highest levels of
power within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and some revere
him for this.
Some others also say that Mikoyan was an adept politician who was
able to argue the Soviet Union's position among the top statesmen of
the day.
"Mikoyan was a politician equal to Churchill. It was due to him that
the world escaped a third World War, as he was the famously able to
calm the Caribbean tensions down," 70-year-old Maya Manouelian said.
"But at the same time we know that he signed executions of so many
Armenians. He, though, did not have an alternative as his political
status forced him to do it."
http://newsdesk.theconwaybulletin.com/armenians-argue-statue-stalin-official140611/
From: Baghdasarian
The Conway Bulletin
June 16 2014
Jun 15, 2014
YEREVAN, June 11 (The Conway Bulletin) - Armenia intends to honour
Anastas Mikoyan, a senior member of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's
government, by erecting a statue of him in the centre of Yerevan.
Many Armenians, though, are appalled by the decision to build a statue
to Mikoyan -- a man accused of signing the death warrants of hundreds
of his countrymen in the 1930s during the so-called purges. They
suspect it is part of a wider plot to curry favour with Russia where
Stalin and his associates have experienced something of a resurgence
in popularity.
Armenia views Russia as a key ally, ensuring that there is a
military balance with Azerbaijan in the South Caucasus and offering
the sugar-sweet potential of joining its Eurasian Economic Union,
which also includes Kazakhstan and Belarus.
With a hint of dry irony, Alina Abrahamyan, a 35-year-old historian,
said: "This is another brilliant example of crawling under Moscow's
feet. Or it is just Moscow's decision to erect Mikoyan's monument in
its Armenian suburb?"
Mikoyan was a Bolshevik and Soviet statesman who served under Vladimir
Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, and Leonid Brezhnev. Mikoyan
was the only Soviet politician to remain at the highest levels of
power within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and some revere
him for this.
Some others also say that Mikoyan was an adept politician who was
able to argue the Soviet Union's position among the top statesmen of
the day.
"Mikoyan was a politician equal to Churchill. It was due to him that
the world escaped a third World War, as he was the famously able to
calm the Caribbean tensions down," 70-year-old Maya Manouelian said.
"But at the same time we know that he signed executions of so many
Armenians. He, though, did not have an alternative as his political
status forced him to do it."
http://newsdesk.theconwaybulletin.com/armenians-argue-statue-stalin-official140611/
From: Baghdasarian