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From the article-reflection of activist of Nida1 youth movement Umud Khazar
To go to war, to shed blood, to rejoice at the enemy’s death, to rejoice at every failure and misfortune of the people whom we consider our enemy – ideas like this, which run counter to universal values, are the idiotic heritage we have received from our fathers and grandfathers.
These thoughts are hammered into our head from early years. At school, on television, at university, at work, outside and at home – in short, everywhere, high and low, they cultivate in us, form in us the conviction that shedding blood, cutting off the enemy’s head, joy with every misfortune in the hostile country are more important than the joy of masturbation.
Despite the fact that our country is listed among the countries which are at war (by the way, our country has not been so far indicated in any other worthy list because of corruption, mass violations of human rights and expanding list of prisoners – we take top places on these indices), nevertheless, we know pretty well that there will be no war, and we also know why. But despite this, some believe that there will be war, and want war.
In our society that suffers from mass illiteracy and just as much mass low consciousness, such people are even a majority as they are worthy owners of the above-mentioned rotten heritage of our fathers and grandfathers.
Up until now, we make all sorts of fabrications about the Armenian people named enemy: they have no historical roots, Armenians are not people at all, they had no other job but to genocide us, the Turks, day and night, give into our mouth2, etc.
I remember that as a child, under the influence of an absurd propaganda, I imagined the Armenians as one-eyed Cyclops, cannibals with long beards, with inventive parents frightening their children who did not want to sleep not with bogeyman stories, but with … the Armenians, and it has not changed so far.
Those living with a dream about war measure their manliness with the degree of demonstration of hatred for the Armenians…
