VICTORY BELONGS TO ALL

And it is impossible to divide it

The day of victory and the anniversary of the liberation of Shoushi is the cherished day of our calendar when we perceive ourselves as an entire unity– as triumphed people, a dignified nation and state that has earned the right to voice its opinion on the global level.
Of course, all kinds of disputes and struggles around political beliefs, economic interests and other permanent and temporary values are possible inside such unity, but when the conversation goes around the May victories uniting us and the common responsibility deriving thereof, there automatically arises the following question: what do we have to divide in this particular sphere?
The liberation of Shoushi – an inseparable part of our generation’s biography, is the “common capital” which cannot be divided into parts, no matter how much we may try. Neither is it possible to insist that it belongs to the former or present-day authorities, this or that political force and even some exclusive individual who is the author of the most heroic feat.
The logic “whether the victory belongs to me or to you” transfers the continuing internal political disputes to an extremely dangerous plane. If the victory of Shoushi can be viewed by such logic too, what’s the idea of a motherland, common memory and everything else that is impossible to divide?
To view our common victory through the prism of an internal political struggle is a harmful bacillus that has already produced its impact on some participants of the Karabakh War and the heroic battle of Shoushi; it has even influenced some ordinary citizens.
Discords are always possible while “measuring” each person’s investment in the common victory following each war and the political processes resulting thereof, but as regards the defeat, it always remains in the status of an orphan. And only after the change of a whole generation does there arrive the moment of making an accurate and impartial assessment on the people’s common victory. We are sure that the same will happen while assessing the Karabakh War in future.
So is there any need to beat to the punch today, on the regular anniversary of the liberation of Shoushi, and view the history of the unfinished foreign policy confrontation through the prism of the “black-and-white” logic?
If lose the “last stronghold” of our unity towards the external challenges, we may also be deprived of the outcomes of the common victory. Thereafter, we will certainly try to attribute the responsibility of the common defeat to one another - a situation that has happened many times in the course of our history.
Smart and far-sighted peoples never try to divide the victories they gained in the past; they think about new ones. While the short-sighted peoples, on the contrary, hold such long disputes over the participation of this or that individual in the process of achieving the victories that the enemy perceives the moment of launching an attack and seizing back the victory. Today, the temporary splitting in the Armenian society has made our enemy happy, but it is not yet sure whether the Armenians will become united again should Karabakh or Shoushi become an issue of discussion.
On May 2, Ter-Petrosyan made the following statement, “In case there is a military threat, I myself will call on the people and the activists of the pan-national movement to temporarily cease the struggle and settle down to the protection of their motherland.” But if the protection of his motherland is really his cherished desire, what gives him the right to approve the unrestrained propaganda which now tends to divide the outcomes of the victory gained at the cost of the lives of thousands of martyrs.
All that is gained through bloodsheds is a sacred value, and a sacred value is never divided into parts; it should be worshiped devotedly, without any bias. Our common victory - the liberation of Shoushi and the entire territory of Karabakh, is the value which has only one owner, and that owner is the Armenian nation. All the rest – from soldier to general, have been and continue to remain the descendents of the Armenian people, regardless the form and the extent of their investment. Otherwise, the people will cease their existence as whole unity resisting the external challenges, and the state will turn into a tool for satisfying some temporary ambitions existing inside it.
Realizing that the united responsibility is the last and the most powerful stronghold for the existence of the Armenian people, today, on May 9, we congratulate all the participants of the unprecedented heroic battle of Karabakh, regardless their political affiliation and views.
“HAYOTS ASHKHARH”

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