Political thought grew partly apart from the rare sober individuals, or perhaps many who do not reveal themselves anyway, and apart from those rare individuals, it has not yet come down from the mountains of Sassoon. The qualification is not mine. It is the expression of someone who looks critically at time, history, and our reality from the outside. Correct expression. I adopt the same. We have not come down from Sassoon mountains. Emotionally speaking, almost no one came down from the mountains of Sassoon.
The heavy defeat suffered at the beginning of the century was so fatal for us that it seems as if the issues of the nation were already decided then. We cannot ignore the fact that, nevertheless, we had a revival, the Republic of Armenia emerged, the three republics can be considered one republic. If you want, I will also add the ephemeral Yerevan marz from 1820-1837, which was later renamed because other marzs arose. I see all this history in one whole, when the nation emerged from nothing. He had cultural and political giants, discussed his memory. This is all in the past. If you want to know, after 1828, in the last two centuries, both Khorenatsi and Narekatsi, our memory and our history were reborn. Maybe us too. Our memory and our future. In other words, we had a day. Time: Time: And when you are here at this hour, it means you have both a past and a future. Who decides? We had the golden age of our culture during these 200 years, since Abovyan, with Western Armenian intellectuals, historians, publishing, literature, poetry, including Raffi, Tumanyan, Isahakyan, Teryan, Charents, A. Myasnikyan, A. Yerznkyan, A. Khanjian, A. Kochinyan, G. Harutyunyan, Y. Zarobyan, a group of people who managed to create a republic. And I remember them with gratitude because I am also their generation. I had my underdog attitude toward power, a snooty attitude. If you are a writer, you must be in the opposition. And here my elder brother-in-law Vahagn Davtyan taught me a beautiful lesson. Kosygin told Anton Kochinyan in Moscow. "I clapped, ugh, look." V. Davtyan said, "It's your state, others are criticizing you." From that moment on, I sweat, blush, feel bad in front of a stranger, friend or enemy, instead of my boss, and I feel it as the people taking my step, who are facing a difficult situation instead of me.
To what extent is it true, how much is it not true, that we have remained at the beginning of the century, we have not walked with humanity, we have not healed our wound, and we have not gone in step with humanity. stuck in the past, it has a lot of truth. Our feet have been heavy with the burden of the past, the burden of the past has hung on our feet. Not to mention that our territory is not powerful enough to keep all its sons, to occupy them, to prevent them from emigrating yesterday to America and Russia today. We don't have the living space to not look for a job, to keep the family prosperous. And the fact that we have really remained at the beginning of the century with psychology, yet we have remained a people of revenge and ignorant of new problems, because our gaze is turned to the past, is the truth. Here, my idols will be the strong ones younger than me, who have grown up without national complications, who have ignored the danger, looked at the time with the eyes of a man of the time. The new generation will come, I give them my leadership. My hope is with them. With what guarantees do we appear in the 21st century? For me, it is the greatest guarantee that the hostility of some neighboring countries will be a heavier burden for them than our tolerance, rather than leaving us isolated. To be more precise, the aggressive attitude of the Turks towards us will be a more difficult problem for them than for us. It seems to me that they should not exaggerate our factor, should not ignore it, should not see it diminished, should not think in their aggression that this embankment will destroy them in front of the wide road to the east. We have an obligation to behave at least in such a way that our prohibition is taken into account. The rest are difficulties that are transient. Only then will we have partners in progress. And in the other case, we will develop a sore both on their body and on the body of the world. The word ulcer is very painful, because I would like my daughter, my son, my grandson to be free citizens in the world in a parade of equals without national complexes, without being an ulcer. We are called to have a principle of identity, we are not insignificant among the powerful, nor are we among the very small ones, the world is full of smaller than us, with many problems, there are nations on the verge of extinction, we do not exaggerate our rights, we do not swell like a frog trying to measure up to an ox. life And we will get stronger. Lasting is in our blood.