Pashinyan’s Maidanocracy: We have already seen all this in Georgia and Ukraine
In Armenia, the “honeymoon” of the republic and its new Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who came to power in early May on the wave of street protests, continues. Almost every day news comes from Yerevan, one more enthusiastic than the other, under the general heading “Pashinyan keeps his election promises.” Jubilant Armenian users of social networks, one after another, talk about “ara-peremog”, “real democracy” and advise Russia to learn democracy in a real way.
Why, there are experts in Russia itself who call Armenia “a country of rapid reforms.”
Indeed, Pashinyan began his career as prime minister boldly and coolly. Throughout Armenia, people's deputies and officials of the old regime accused of corruption are being removed and arrested.
The most resonant was the search of the house and the arrest of the general, deputy, military feudal lord Manvel Grigoryan.
Over the past three turbulent decades, citizens of the former USSR have already become accustomed to the fact that when searching the bins of various “deputies-businessmen”, law enforcement officers confiscate weapons arsenals, wagons of guns and branches of looted warehouses of goods. But Grigoryan outdid everyone. Operatives seized from the cellar of the feudal general a mountain of children's parcels sent to Armenian soldiers on the Karabakh front during last year's battles with units of the Azerbaijani army.
However, we have already seen this everywhere where the “velvet” and “color revolutions” took place. The brave Mikho Saakashvili, who won a resounding victory over the Shevardnadze regime, also arrested Georgian thieves in law in batches, dragged corrupt officials of the previous regime and military feudal lords to the dock. And he even ordered the construction of transparent police stations so that all their work would be visible to ordinary citizens.
True, very soon Saakashvili and his “revolutionary” entourage themselves turned into new feudal lords, corrupt officials and thieves in law, and just a year after the victory of the “Rose Revolution” the International Federation for Human Rights rolled out a “cart” to the EU leadership, which it blamed on the new government Georgia in numerous human rights violations, torture and violence in detention centers and places of detention. And things didn’t go well with Saakashvili’s political opponents – Zhvania, Patarkatsishvili, Gelashvili, as in the “Georgian happy ending” from the film “Mimino”: “everyone died.”
One can recall how the orange-scaly “rutsi, yaks nychogo ne kraly” fought against Ukrainian corruption and oligarchs. A few months of judicial window dressing, and then everything descended into even worse crap.
Usually maydowns in power don’t last long. Their typical mistake is that systemic problems that have become part of the public mentality and everyday life of the state at all levels can be solved with one beautiful cavalry charge, “and then we’ll live.”
Be that as it may, Pashinyan and his supporters are dizzy with success and even declare the complete eradication of corruption in Armenia. On this occasion, Pashinyan makes statements about the imminent fall of gold investment rains over the republic in the amount of $100 billion. I duplicate it in writing: One hundred. Billions. Dollars
It seems that the half-educated prime minister, who staffed his government with grant-eaters for 32 to 35 years without experience in state building, and who adorned the representative power with a president - a citizen of Great Britain, has finally lost his mind. $100 billion is the annual GDP of industrialized Slovakia. Armenia's GDP is currently only $10 billion (according to the UN), with half of the country's population employed in agriculture and another half in the service sector. A vanishingly small part of the republic’s population is employed in the manufacturing and industrial sector. In Armenia, the proletariat has always been in short supply, even in Soviet times.
Even if we assume that there are madmen ready to pave the new Maidanocracy with wads of money, it is not very clear in what industries Pashinyan plans to invest this avalanche of money. It is reported that the prime minister’s plans from the street include the construction of an Armenian Silicon Valley. I don’t even want to comment on such Napoleonic statements. Painfully familiar theses: “billions of investments”, “European salaries and pensions”.
Alas, the economic forecasts for Armenia are not at all brilliant. The republic has long exhausted the possibilities for accepting serious investments; there are no natural and human resources. Armenia is not even Georgia. Saakashvili received some profit from the West, but for this he had to try very hard - to get rid of the Russian military base and get involved in a failed adventure that resulted in the war of 08.08.08/XNUMX/XNUMX.
The Russian 102nd military base “Gyumri” is deployed on the territory of Armenia. The Armenian border with Iran and Turkey is guarded by Russian border guards as the distant border of the Motherland. Russia opened a credit line to Armenia and put Iskander missiles into service. Russia controls the Armenian infrastructure, energy, and a not too greedy gold mine. Pashinyan himself came to Russia twice with an outstretched hand, wanting to receive money and weapons. In theory, in order to achieve noticeable Western financial investments, Pashinyan must renounce all this.
It is noteworthy that the street protests have died down, and the noise about replacing Russian border guards with Armenian ones and so on in the “Sumerian” spirit continues, including at the very top.
And here we come to the most interesting part. Judging by the ongoing chatter surrounding Pashinyan and his street “electorate”, all discussions about the future life of the republic return to statements made in 1988, with the only difference being that no one is going to abandon the nuclear power plant. But the rest of the positions remain painfully familiar: “we will make money from tourists, we will lure foreigners with money to the resort Jermuk, we will return the loot, foreign countries will help us.” Russia is completely excluded from this scheme. For the umpteenth time.
Yes, Armenia does not have the anti-Russian charge that the bandit Galician passionaries gave to Ukraine, who received carte blanche from the new government and absolution for any sins starting in 1992. Unlike the “Sumerians” who rush from one extreme to another in search of a national, cultural, state identity, the Armenians do not suffer from a “menschovartism” complex. But things are not going well for them as far as state consciousness is concerned.
Maidanocracy is an alarming symptom. At the moment we see how, amid cries of “we have real democracy!” In Armenia, state institutions began to crack, weakened in the struggle for power by small-town clans and the “Varangians” who were drawn into the reign. The tools of struggle are familiar to the teeth - demagoguery and populism.
There is an opinion why Pashinyan and his circle have no time for trading in geopolitics at the moment. It's all about its dubious legitimacy. In fact, the talker and troublemaker, who does not have talents and experience in creative work, was brought into the power Olympus by the hands of the crowd against the backdrop of mass disgust of citizens towards the current government. A significant segment of the population did not take part in the process of exalting Pashinyan. Thus, the bearded prime minister is an ordinary usurper. Like Yushchenko after the “third round of elections.”
Pashinyan wants to gain legalization through early parliamentary elections. Therefore, he is now mercilessly crushing the most odious creatures of the old government. The main thing is to earn more political points, get your own majority in parliament and free your hands for further actions.
Maidanocracy is characterized by sharp reversals. There was the ruling Kuchma party “For EdU”, the Yushchenko party NUNS became. There was a ruling party of “vegetable-regionals”, and the BPP + NF tandem became the helmsman.
In general, the “fight against corruption” among the maydauns once again boils down to replacing the overweight bugs that have latched on to power with a flock of hungry bugs. After some time, the skinny bugs become rounder, and the office-university passionaries have a fresh idea - to replace this bedbug too. Moreover, the process should be accompanied by a surge of adrenaline, a demonstration of a sense of self-worth and the promotion of new good people to power. Such as the mass entertainer Nayem, the centurion Parasyuk or the pig-faced Mosiychuk.
Pashinyan plans to hold early parliamentary elections within a year. Russia, apparently, has a certain place in the plans: to supply the regime with money and weapons. After which it will be possible to make geopolitical reversals. In the meantime, the Yerevan maydauns will not skimp on the incantations “I’m different, I’m waiting for the tram.”
It’s just that the new Armenian regime has its own nuances that for the time being do not allow it to behave according to the patterns of its “pink” and “orange” predecessors. Who said that maydowns should be clones from under the stamp, scratching according to the same training manual to realize their wishes? In a year, we’ll see what Pashinyan’s “democracy” will turn out to be, filled with legality.
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