"I wouldn't trust today's generals"
Today, 99% of our freedom soldiers are ready to go to war and struggle again, but not concede the liberated territories," announced commander of the "Arabo" detachment, Manvel Yeghiazaryan. He doesn't consider any mutual concession as acceptable without the final clarification of Karabakh's status.
"It turns out that after we hand the lands, we will have to give Karabakh back to open the border with Turkey," says Manvel Yeghiazaryan and adds that the Turks will want Meghri to open the border as well.
"But what will we get out of opening the border with Turkey? Our agriculture will die. There are not even any products grown in Russia and the territories near the Black Sea because Turkish products are cheap. Armenia's agriculture will completely die. Armenians will bring tiles and such things to Armenia. But they are already doing that. Why do they want to open the border?" said Manvel Yeghiazaryan.
On the occasion of Army Day, president of the "Union of Veteran Freedom Fighters" Hamlet Hovsepyan and freedom fighter of the "Sasuntsi David" regiment Ashot Abrahamyan presented the course of development for the army from their point of view. They shared the view that the war was won not so much through force, but through the courage and extreme patriotism."
According to Manvel Yeghiazaryan, victory was inevitable due to the spirit and aura. "There is no such spirit today," said the speakers. Hamlet Hovsepyan recalled the Soviet years when there were films about heroes, people recognized the heroes and said that today people neither remember the dead nor do they talk about the heroes that live among us."
Hamlet Hovsepyan says that today's army has developed and is more professional than it was 10-15 years ago.
How would you explain the fact that there were only 14 generals of which 7 were from the Soviet army and 7 were "field" soldiers at the moment of victory, whereas today there are over 100 generals? In response to that, Manvel Yeghiazaryan said: "Well, we're part of the Caucasus and Asia with friends and acquaintances. I know generals today whom I would not trust among a detachment of 10 soldiers during the war and who simply had a lucky strike."
Manvel Yeghiazaryan also talked about social injustice and the fact that the families of deceased freedom fighters or the injured men have a hard time trying to make ends meet. "The army must not be hungry," said Yeghiazaryan.
Are today's Armenian men ready to defend the Homeland? In response, Yeghiazaryan said that the people would defend the Homeland, even if they had no faith or trust.
