Former member of the Supreme Council of Armenia and the National Assembly of Nagorno-Karabakh, Vahram Atanesyan, wrote on his Facebook page:
“Do you remember Hrant Matevosyan, who used to mock a university linguistics professor: “Meyen said, Vvedinsky said, Acharyan said, and what do you say, Associate Professor Akhverdyan” (for the sake of the scoundrels, I will say that I am quoting the thought, and from memory).
Now let’s turn to “our eyes”. What does it matter, what does the reflection on our problems give, who, when, and what was said about the Armenian people? We exposed the back of the Karabakh movement when we discredited Karen Demirchyan in Yerevan and demonized him in Moscow. I am not saying that Mikhail Gorbachev testified in his memoirs that in 1988, with Silva Kaputikyan and Zori Balayan, 15 minutes of the 45-minute meeting on February 26 were devoted to one question: is Karen Demirchyan a supporter of “perestroika” or “the era of corrupt stagnation?”
Karen Demirchyan was hindering the formal and informal leaders of the movement; they should have Suren Harutyunyan, who had gone through the “school” of joint work with Vezirov, the Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan, in the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia. As the poet said, “Oh, how many things there are to hate in life. At least they had the morals to remain silent.”
