The socio-cultural dilemma of Armenia’s “Citizen’s Day”
The formation and evolution of public holidays are shaped by the interplay of social, economic, historical, political, ethno-cultural and religious processes. In this sense, Armenia’s “Citizen’s Day” should not be understood merely as a newly introduced holiday but as part of a broader political and cultural project aimed at constructing and reaffirming civic identity.
In general terms, holidays can be divided into two broad categories: spontaneous and systemically constructed. The former emerge “from below,” rooted in everyday life, collective emotional release and informal cultural practices. The latter, by contrast, are “imposed from above,” functioning as institutionalized instruments of memory, ideology and identity. “Citizen’s Day” clearly belongs to the second category.
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This “Citizen’s Day” introduced by Pashinyan in 2019 to celebrate his so-called “Velvet Revolution” on the last Saturday in April, is not only his narcissistic attempt to celebrate himself, but also an obvious attempt to usurp Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day.
If an average person did and behaved like this psychopath does and behaves he would be rushed to the sanitarium! That sign he is displaying is not the “love” sign but the enemy’s rear end he’s been kissing for years already because he is not man enough to admit to all his mistakes, ask for forgiveness and resign like a TRUE leader would. Insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different result. The enemy’s behavior has not changed. The enemy is the same scum as it has always been. The enemy has found a sheep with no dignity and sense of patriotism in this fool and is milking him for all it can. There are 12 months in a year. Why pick the month of April and the day after the Genocide Commemoration Day and in this election year for his fake “Citizen’s Day” nonsense? Clearly to manipulate people of course! Because April is the month that marks the start of the 1915 Armenian Genocide and by doing so he is trying to shift people’s focus onto something totally irrelevant so as to overshadow and lessen, slowly but surely, the importance of April 24th in people’s minds with ultimate goal of leaving it in the past to please his genocide denier Turkish and pseudo-Turkish collaborators. He won’t succeed. This act and con game of his reminds me of Turkish-occupied Western Armenia be referenced by our enemies as “Eastern Anatolia” as a cover to remove from the map the existence of Western Armenia and to erase from memory any mention of its native and indigenous multi-millennia Armenian inhabitants. The term “Anatolia” has Greek roots and it means territory “east of Greece”, i.e. today’s Western Turkey, having absolutely nothing to do with the eastern part of the country, occupied Western Armenia!
It would not come as a surprise, if the traitor-in-chief Pashinyan even abolishes Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day and discontinues the official commemoration of the Armenian Genocide by the Armenian state and in schools, in order to please his two Turkic overlords as their ready-to-please compliant satrap. Anything can be expected from this cowardly, treacherous sellout.