In the 1970s, during the presidential administration of Richard Nixon, American democracy was tested by the criminal and corrupt acts that became known as Watergate. The cover-up of the scandal reached the White House, and a defiant Nixon was eventually threatened with impeachment. With evidence mounting and under bipartisan pressure, Nixon resigned from the Presidency in August 1974. It became the most significant constitutional crisis in American democracy to date.
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Congress should’ve impeached Reagan for selling Iran weapons so that he could wage a war against Nicaragua’s first free government. Or for Grenada.
The division in the Diaspora during Soviet Socialist/Communist era, was a principled division. Throughout those seven decades, I do not recall having known who was the Armenia politburo chief or the Soviet Socialist Armenia’s PM. It would not have mattered. A segment of the Diaspora believed that Armenia’s security rested in the union with the Soviet Socialist Republic and in its communist ideology. The other segment believed that it is in a free, independent and democratic Armenia.
Strangely, after Armenia regained its free, independent, democratic state as a fledgling republic, personalities came onto the picture. To a degree it is understandable and expected in Armenia. The strange thing is that it spilled over and reached Diaspora, be it in far distant America or Australia. We have ways to go in the Diaspora to separate the personalities form the institutions.