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Young Filmmakers in Vanadzor Ask, ‘Where Are We Going?’
Special to the Armenian Weekly
Grigor Poghosyan, a 21-year-old filmmaker from Vanadzor, compares his hometown to Detroit, and even plays me a song by Eminem to illustrate his point. He’s never been there, but he has
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The filmmaker is absolutely right. It has become a dead city. The third city of Armenia which during the Soviet period flourished by its chemical and mechanical companies are silent, a ghost town. I visited last year with a guide employed by one of the leading banks and who goes during the weekends to Kirovagan, now Vanatsor, her home town.
Thank you for such an article. Knowing some facts about Vanadzor through this article was very depressing, but I wish great success for poghosyan in the field of filmmaking.
Vanadzor was built by the Soviet Union and its economy served the Soviet Union. It’s demise is therefore the result of the Soviet Union’s collapse. The Soviet Union should have not fallen, it should have been modernized. Example: Look at China and Vietnam.
That said: Vanadzor today is a bastion of Western funded activists and spies, and this article, including the documentary it refers, to is a testimony to it.
So sad that independence has failed to improve life for those in Vanadzor.