An independent state is first of all a responsibility. First of all, it is a responsibility. What shall we do to not harm? That was our great concern.

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We adopted the decree, but on that day, on that same day, unrest already started in the Sevan basin between Azerbaijanis and Armenians, organized in some way, after which a state of emergency was declared immediately on the same day, everything was frozen

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The environment in Armenia and Georgia differed in a very radical way from the environment of the rest of the Soviet republics, excluding of course the Baltics.

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Since there was a state of emergency, several military cars were standing there. One of the guys got into that car, switched it on and was driving it. For the first time, I saw an Armenian BTR (armored transport), not a soviet one, but Armenian, so to say

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Today when we look at todays’ widespread populism, when you say what people like. The peculiarity of these rallies was that when people came there, the leaders said not what people liked, but what needed to be said.

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All the procedures, laws, logics were messed up and suddenly democracy was in the hands of children, and we were managing our daily life.

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The camp and the organizers had probably received an order from Politburo, that it was perestroika, you too should do something, pioneria should be transformed, but they still did not believe that children themselves could participate in writing the text;

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And for me, it remains very exciting and revolutionary to take specific actions at that age, still in the Soviet Union, it gives something great, and strength to fight the systems later, since we have witnessed how an entire system was deconstructed.

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I went to the Ministry, back then to the Minister of Enlightenment, and I found out that 20,000 Rubles were transferred to our school to create a new sports area, but the sports area was not created, and I came to my headmaster and addressed those questio

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That newspaper of ours coincided with the entrance of Russian tanks into Yerevan, and I think a curfew was either going to be introduced or was already introduced, and we decided to take interviews from the soldiers, next to the tanks

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