VAHAN HOVHANNISIAN: CHAUVINISTIC MOVEMENT RAGING IN RUSSIA IS RESULT
OF RUSSIAN SOCIETY’S BEING ILL
YEREVAN, JUNE 8, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. “The Russian society
is ill, has inferiority complex because of suffered defeats, and
similar movements, of course, develop quickly in such societies,” RA
NA Deputy Speaker, ARF Bureau member, candidate of history sciences
Vahan Hovhannisian expressed such an opinion on June 7, responding
journalists’ question concerning chauvinism being raged in
Russia. According to his interpretation, Russia had a serious loss in
the “cold war” in the ideological sense as it was proved that
communism is bankrupt, in the political sense as the USSR failed and
huge territories separated and a part of separated units aslo became
hostilely intended towards Russia, Russia lost in the economic sense
as the whole USSR economy failed, and “Russia’s standing on feet today
is provided by huge natural resources but not by development of
producing component of economy.”
The NA Deputy Speaker is more than sure that the basis of chauvinism
in Russia is not a bit ideological, and it’s unequivocal that the
Russian state’s struggle against chauvinism is not enough.
V.Hovhannisian also mentioned that Fascism also appeared and developed
in the 20th century in Germany as a consequence of a serious loss in
the world war. “But Russia’s peculiarity is that Russian Fascists,
skinheads, who speak about cleanness of blood, has no serious idea
about the Fascism, as if, for example, founders and main ideologists
of Fascism Benito Mussolini or Franco of Spain or Salazar of Portugal
appeared in Russian underground or any electric train, skinheads may
hit them as they do not differ from Armenians by ethnic and racial
peculiarities, and Benito Mussolini was much blacker than any Armenian
is,” the NA Deputy Speaker mentioned.