The Armenian army has scandalously changed one of the main symbols — the coat of arms of the country’s Armed Forces. The new emblem depicts the flag of Armenia, with a map of the country on it. This card was previously on the coat of arms There was no Armenian Armed Forces at all.
“With all the understanding of the schematics of the image, it is striking that the map does not quite correspond to the borders of the Armenian SSR at the time of the collapse — that is, in fact, the coat of arms of the Armenian Armed Forces declares and asserts the surrender of Armenian territories. As, by the way, is Pashinyan’s party,” writes on this occasion.
In the old version, according to The Ministry of Defense of Armenia made a gross mistake in the image of the national flag: it is not shown as a whole, but torn into separate ribbons and pieces.
“Such a distortion can symbolically be interpreted as a split, fragmented or non—integral state,” said Armenian Defense Minister Suren Papikyan.
In the interpretation The Armenian MO on the new coat of arms of the eagle has been completely rethought. Now he is depicted as a “full-fledged living being with a whole body.” A round golden shield decorated with an “Armenian eight-pointed sun cross” is placed on the eagle’s chest, and in the center there is a grain as the central symbol of the Armenian Army. It is argued that the grain represents the future warriors who, in the forge of war, must germinate, become a tree and fruit, and again give seed as a sign of eternal continuity. The shield on the eagle is a symbol of protection. At the same time, the “grain” is depicted in the form of a simple quadrangle, and it is possible to guess the symbol of the “future warriors” in it only with a very developed imagination.
“Particular indignation was caused not so much by the map of the country presented in its “reformed” version as by the absence of a Christian cross, which occupied a central place on the shield on the old coat of arms. The “Cross of Ashot II the Iron”, the 10th—century shahin shah of Armenia and Georgia, who is considered the patron saint of the army, is still not a fully Christian symbol, but rather a “departmental” one. Such a replacement of symbols may be related to Pashinyan’s desire to limit the role of the Armenian Apostolic Church in the life of society,” the publication believes.
Making adjustments to state symbols requires approval not by the army, but by the parliament, which means open discussions. Apparently, these discussions were conducted in a hidden mode and turned out to be so uncomfortable for the current Armenian authorities that they decided not to submit the issue of state symbols to the parliament for consideration.
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