"Harsh reality" (HR) or "Armenian National Interest"(ANI)???

[axel]

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"Something Is Rotten in the State of Denmark."

[Sip]

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Sadly, however, our true nationalists are a small minority within a sea of self-hating, self-serving, egotistical Armenians.

Not that I disagree but isn't that just the kind of statement that gets all of Ara Baliozian's devoted non-fan base all riled up?

[HayotzAmrotz]

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I am not trying to excuse or turn a blind eye to corruption in Armenia.

I know, and neither do I. The corruption is there, but it can be, and most importantly, will be reduced. As you said "a mess that took a thousand years to create will not be cleaned up in a few short years".

[HayotzAmrotz]

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"Something Is Rotten in the State of Denmark."

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio."

[axel]

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"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio."

Amusing, but you betrayed the spirit of it.

[HayotzAmrotz]

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Amusing, but you betrayed the spirit of it.

And that would be the only thing I've ever betrayed.

Forget the writings of that mongrel race (the English) and read the real literature http://armenianhouse.org/

[axel]

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Forget the writings of that mongrel race (the English) and read the real literature

This is a regrettable statement.

[HayotzAmrotz]

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axel

pardon for the OT but you are the one who brought Mr S into this thread.
Well, I don't particularly like the English. I lived with them and I know them pretty well and quite frankly - I got no time for them. Of course, this is a generalisation and there are plenty of decent English folks, no doubt about that. BUT overall they are the most dishonest, the most two-faced, the most oppressive and racist people I've ever met, and I've dealt with dozens of races (Russians, Germans, French, Turks, Arabs, Kurds, Iranians, Chinese and even Blacks from Africa) you name it and I've dealt with them, so I know at least a little bit what I'm talking about. The racism of the English is quite unique and even though it is much less violent then say the Russian racism IMO it is still the worst kind of racism in the world. English racism is carefuly hidden, it's skillfuly masked. Their racism is just one of many very English negative character traits, there are plenty of others. Anyway, the hell with these poms (prisoners of mother england) they are not worth our time.

[HayotzAmrotz]

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[HayotzAmrotz]

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Suren Ayvazyan of Yerevan University is writing to the Queen to demand the return of the treasury of the Kingdom of Cilicia, or Lesser Armenia, which was overthrown by the Muslim Mameluke rulers of Egypt in 1375.

King Levon VI of Cilicia, a state occupying parts of what are now Turkey and Syria, managed to escape to Europe, where he sought to raise a final crusade to free the last Christian state in the Middle East.

In 1378, he signed an agreement depositing the Cilician treasury with King Richard II of England for safekeeping until his kingdom regained its independence, according to Professor Ayvazyan.

King Levon did not live to see his country free again. In fact, apart from an interlude in 1918-1921, no Armenian state existed again until the Republic of Armenia was established in the Caucasus in 1991.

The 300 years of the Cilician Kingdom is considered to be the golden age of the Armenian enlightenment, and produced a wealth of exquisite illuminated manuscripts. It eventually fell foul of the wrath of Muslim rulers in the region for having sided with the Crusader states of Edessa and Jerusalem.