My Reservations with the Dashnaks

[Armanen]

Re: My Reservations with the Dashnaks

I always laugh when I am reminded that the Republican party of Armenia supposedly follows Njdeh's ideology. Njdeh for much of his life was a Dashnak ironically and his idea of tseghakron is what led to the founding of the Armenian Youth Federation (AYF), the youth branch of the Dashnaktsutyun. Tseghakron (nation-religion) is more about turning the Armenian national identity into a religion itself than a belief in God. I have no idea how the RPA applies this.

Njdeh eventually left the ARF because it became what it is today, which is but a mere shadow of what it once was. Many Dashnaks during Njdeh's time were also national socialists, but of course that ideology has been shunned since the defeat of Germany in 1945.

[Haykakan]

Re: My Reservations with the Dashnaks

Hey look everyone ARF has finely figured something out and might actually do something useful just before the last Armenian leaves Armenia.

ARF LAUNCHES "WE WILL LIVE IN OUR COUNTRY" PROGRAM

September 17, 2013 | 12:29

YEREVAN. - Armenia's opposition ARF Dashnaktsutyun Party is starting
the "We will Live in Our Country" program, whose objective is to stop
emigration from the country.

ARF Supreme Body member and ARF National Assembly Faction leader Armen
Rustamyan noted the aforesaid during a press conference on Tuesday.

He stressed that stopping emigration forthwith is indispensable for
Armenia's future.

"Proceeding from this, the ARF is working on this program for several
months; we have held serious discussions. Now, it is necessary to
start a new phase, a new stage," Rustamyan said.

He noted that emigration is a complex problem, and the problems that
cause emigration need to be addressed. As per the opposition MP,
Armenia's present-day political system does not enable to address
these problems immediately, and the reason is the, "similitude of
the ruling party and the state."

"We are losing blood, and we cannot allow it to result in a complete
blood loss. And the organism is our country, our state, our homeland,"
Rustamyan stated.

He noted that it will be wrong to wait for the materialization of
the plan for a power change, and that is why it is necessary to
take priority steps. As per Armen Rustamyan, ARF Dashnaktsutyun
has summarized all this in seven points, and the latter are the
"prescription" for solving the accumulated problems.

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