IT PAINS SEFILIAN THAT ARMENIA STILL RETAINS A SOVIET ARMY

epress.am
09.08.2011 12:27

It pains me but the army today is not our nation’s pride, wrote
commander of the Shushi battalion during the Nagorno-Karabakh War and
one of the founders of the Sardarapat civic movement Jirayr Sefilian
in Armenian on his Facebook page.

“Our generals, with their hasty solutions, supposedly localized the
structure of the Soviet army; thus, contributing to a foreign army’s
unhealthy values ruling our army – but more brutal and degraded.The
Soviet army was of an imperial type. There, the soldier fulfilled
commands, devoid of his own will. The Armenian soldier cannot be
molded on that,” he wrote.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress