“Shall we save the Homeland? Excerpts from Tigran Hayrapetyan’s book

Armenia needs a political center. Moreover, we have no problem balancing the right and left extremes. The problem is much more complicated: to unite the national forces that, in principle, have the same concern and feel the same pain for the homeland, but the strength of traditional confrontation and excessive self-centeredness do not allow them to strengthen in the same system. A system that will become an insurmountable barrier in the way of the nation-destructive forces striving to serve the homeland and the people for their interests, will prevent the establishment of the one-wheeled power of the mafia-styled bureaucracy and plutocracy.

....The question arises: what mechanism can be used to bring back to life the intellectuals paralyzed by the blows of the revolution so that those hundreds of talented specialists, entrepreneurial people, and simply gifted personalities that did not find a place in the gray environment established by the regime or, being isolated in their effort to stay free from the arbitrariness of the authorities, refrained from any kind of activity, show full-blooded participation in the economic and political life of the homeland in solving its fate.

How to return the belief in one's strength, creative talent, and the feeling of protection from the arbitrariness and permissiveness reigning all around to the most diverse classes of society?

...History once again proved that the power that emerges on the wave of revolution is basically incapable of building a state. The constellation of revolutionaries should be replaced by highly skilled national-state figures who will effectively carry out the difficult and responsible task of building a state. Only after that, with the work that requires overstraining of forces, it will be possible to prevent the inheritance of the “paper bucket” syndrome and the threat of the new Berlin Congress for the Armenian people.

In choosing the political future of our people, it will always be appropriate to remember M.B. Arnold's meaningful words. “Every choice is reasoned, but it is reasoned by the personality of the voter”.