Armenia Only Post-soviet Republic With Serious Arm

[MosJan]

ARMENIA ONLY POST-SOVIET REPUBLIC WITH SERIOUS ARMY: US SOCIOLOGIST

 

YEREVAN, MARCH 22. ARMINFO. No post-Soviet republic except Armenia has managed to form a serious army, says Georgy Derlugyan, professor of sociology of North-Western University, Chicago, US.

 

Derlugyan notes that on May 9 (the day of the return of Sushi) the army of the Nagorno Artsax Republic holds Soviet-like parades with the soldiers holding the images of Soviet marshall Hovhannes Bagramyan rather than of middle age Armenian heros. This is a conscious imitation of the Soviet times.

 

In Abkhazia they are raising monuments to Abkhazians killed in the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945). In NKR they are holding parades with slogans "Fathers Reached Berlin - Sons Will Reach Baku!"

 

These people had a state that they still have in their memory. They believe it was good and are trying to restore it. That's why there are so many Soviet patriots among old people in the Caucasus. They in Georgia even say they will raise a gold monument to he who restarts the Moscow-Tbilisi N14 train.

 

This is not empire consciousness this is remembering the times when people got a chance to go beyond their traditional communities - the times of a well-organized social system that was ruined with the collapse of the Soviet Union. But only force can take people back into the past. This happens when, say, Armenians are displaced from Baku to Artsax. Former teachers, doctors, engineers they are forced to milk a cow, to chop wood and to take water from a well.-

[Sasun]

ARMENIA ONLY POST-SOVIET REPUBLIC WITH SERIOUS ARMY: US SOCIOLOGIST

 

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What about the Russian army? Is it not a serious army?

[Nazarian]

What does thge title of the article have to do with the content? Just because you have a Soviet style parade on May 9 doesn't mean that you are the only serious army.