No one thought that the Soviet Union would collapse. And it was not a matter of any nation, any state, any animosity; you only had a dream of restoring your identity, your national statehood. But there was no hope that it would be possible in 1982.

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However, raising the ecological problem, environmental protection, cleanliness, etc., that was not our main goal, it was a means for raising people’s consciousness.

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It was the end of the [19]84, if I’m not mistaken, they caught a Lebanese guy named Raffi at the airport, whom I certainly didn’t know. In [19]84 I... in short, I was called to the KGB.

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And our goal back then was the following: since there is an occasion, let’s speak about whatever is possible to speak about, what will not endanger the security of our people, will not do anything to our people, will not lead to cataclysms. In other words

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Those labels that were attached to the people every evening on “Vremya” or “Pravda” newspaper- separatists, I don't know what in every newspaper, those labels increased the number of people in the square the next day.

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The interdependence started when the “Karabakh” Committee entered the Supreme Council. The people saw that they could form a government.

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The opening of the Modern Art Museum in Yerevan was an extraordinary event for the entire Soviet space, with one exception: only Armenian artists were exhibited in our Modern Art Museum

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They wanted a style that would be modern, but it would be felt that it was Armenian.

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Imagine that a Soviet artist pictures himself: “How come? Our country is progressive, we have sent Gagarin, right? How can we be backward?”

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I decided that we would display for six days everything that was forbidden in the Soviet Union, let’s say what was not accepted in literature, in music

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