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'HANGING BELLS ROUND THEIR OWN SERVANTS METHODS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL ENSLAVEMENT' - VAHRAM MARTIROSYAN
21:26 â~@¢ 16.05.14
Writer and translator Vahram Martirosyan views as humiliation
awarding medals and conferring titles in a country where employees'
are unprotected, especially in oligarch-owned usinesses .
They do not receive decent wages nor do trade unions work.
With respect to the decision to set up a monument to Anastas Mikoyan
(a Soviet statesman during the mandates of Vladimir Lenin, Joseph
Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, and Leonid Brezhnev), Mr Martirosyan
proposes that it be set up in front of the office building of the
National Security Service as an "ensemble."
Mr Martirosyan, the draft amendments to the Law on Government Awards
and Honorary Titles institute a number of medals. Moreover, Armenia's
former minister of foreign affairs Alexander Arzumanyan has stated
all this "smells of Soviet times." Our society is really concerned
that the traditions of "good old days" are coming back, especially
after Armenia joins the Eurasian Economic Space.
I did not expect this Soviet "bubble of awards" would re-form so soon.
At that time they replaced material values, such as wages. And now
it is like humiliating working people. We have severe unemployment
in our poor country - the highest in the Caucasus. Moreover, a great
number of employed are in the shadow and unprotected - especially in
businesses owned by oligarchs. And I consider it humiliation. I think
the facts mentioned could be discussed only after the situation has
been analyzed."
Mr Martirosyan believes that people should be paid money instead of
being awarded medals.
"The first authorities of independent Armenia, in addition to many
other demagogic steps, abolished a number of honorary titles. And
Robert Kocharyan, who had a Soviet way of thinking, reinstituted
the titles. And now Serzh Sargsyan is developing this field. This is
one of the ways of bribing their own servants. If material wealth is
in question, it is money. If it is not enough, they can hang bells
round people's necks for them to feel happy. I consider it a method
of psychological enslavement."
With respect to the decision to set up a monument of Anastas Mikoyan,
Mr Martirosyan said:
"Numerous articles on Mikoyan's activities have been published. And
no one is citing any evidence of Mikoyan having done anything good
for Armenia. I do not know who invented this idea. We have had so
many outstanding figures in our history. But disregarding this fact,
we are following one of the members of Stalin's cohort."
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2014/05/16/martirosyan3/
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
21:26 â~@¢ 16.05.14
Writer and translator Vahram Martirosyan views as humiliation
awarding medals and conferring titles in a country where employees'
are unprotected, especially in oligarch-owned usinesses .
They do not receive decent wages nor do trade unions work.
With respect to the decision to set up a monument to Anastas Mikoyan
(a Soviet statesman during the mandates of Vladimir Lenin, Joseph
Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, and Leonid Brezhnev), Mr Martirosyan
proposes that it be set up in front of the office building of the
National Security Service as an "ensemble."
Mr Martirosyan, the draft amendments to the Law on Government Awards
and Honorary Titles institute a number of medals. Moreover, Armenia's
former minister of foreign affairs Alexander Arzumanyan has stated
all this "smells of Soviet times." Our society is really concerned
that the traditions of "good old days" are coming back, especially
after Armenia joins the Eurasian Economic Space.
I did not expect this Soviet "bubble of awards" would re-form so soon.
At that time they replaced material values, such as wages. And now
it is like humiliating working people. We have severe unemployment
in our poor country - the highest in the Caucasus. Moreover, a great
number of employed are in the shadow and unprotected - especially in
businesses owned by oligarchs. And I consider it humiliation. I think
the facts mentioned could be discussed only after the situation has
been analyzed."
Mr Martirosyan believes that people should be paid money instead of
being awarded medals.
"The first authorities of independent Armenia, in addition to many
other demagogic steps, abolished a number of honorary titles. And
Robert Kocharyan, who had a Soviet way of thinking, reinstituted
the titles. And now Serzh Sargsyan is developing this field. This is
one of the ways of bribing their own servants. If material wealth is
in question, it is money. If it is not enough, they can hang bells
round people's necks for them to feel happy. I consider it a method
of psychological enslavement."
With respect to the decision to set up a monument of Anastas Mikoyan,
Mr Martirosyan said:
"Numerous articles on Mikoyan's activities have been published. And
no one is citing any evidence of Mikoyan having done anything good
for Armenia. I do not know who invented this idea. We have had so
many outstanding figures in our history. But disregarding this fact,
we are following one of the members of Stalin's cohort."
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2014/05/16/martirosyan3/
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress