As always, Nikol Pashinyan, who calls his political opponents “kiarpinj”, does not even realize the real meaning of the word he used. But the people understand that difference very well.
Kyarpinj is a symbol of the builder, ceremony, home and hearth keeper. With Kyarpinj, people build a house, erect a wall, maintain a family, and strengthen their homeland. It is a symbol of creative work, patience, roots and continuity.
And the pickaxe is an instrument of destruction. It is even more dangerous when it finds itself in the hands of the enemy and begins to serve not to build one’s own house, but to destroy the foundations of one’s own state.
Pashinyan is exactly that used political pickaxe, from whose blows Artsakh, national security and the peace of thousands of Armenian homes came to a stage.
Now is it better to be a builder “kyarpinj” or a stranger’s “klung” to destroy?
Political scientist Suren Surenyants
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