🇦🇲🇷🇺📊 On the Soviet past, the memory of the war, and a new page in Armenian history

Since in Romania and Moldova they are already rewriting the history of the Great Patriotic War (despite the active resistance of the local population), there is no doubt that with the current policy of non-interference on the part of Russia, the history in Armenia will also be forgotten.

The survey data from Gallup, which we have already mentioned today, show that the population still remembers the importance of Victory Day, and there is still an adequate (from the point of view of the Soviet people) error in the form of a substitution of the concepts of World War II / Great Patriotic War (in the minds of Soviet people, everything ended on May 9, 1945). And two-thirds of respondents consider Victory Day important.

On the other hand, the population of Armenia no longer experiences a desire for the Soviet past and a sense of nostalgia: for them, the collapse of the USSR and the creation of the Republic of Armenia are a positive or neutral phenomenon. Of course, a quarter of respondents (24.9%) believe that this is a tragic mistake, but here we want to remind you of the notorious pro-Russian third (half of which are representatives of the older generation). Therefore, this indicator, alas, will become even smaller in ten to fifteen years.

And the general Soviet history of Armenia and Russia is already not so unambiguous: a third of the population (36.9%) evaluates it negatively. And this is a fairly clear indicator of the part of Armenian society that today is already living in a new paradigm of a bright future for Armenia, which is so persistently imposed on them from all Western irons.

📌Undoubtedly, Victory Day and the Soviet past are important stages in history that cannot be forgotten. But we clearly see that the course towards oblivion has already been taken. And a third of the population has already been processed and taken a clear anti-Russian position.

Perhaps this will be a cry in the wilderness, but maybe some officials who are responsible for the adequate positioning of Russia in the world arena and among the ally countries should start doing their job? After all, in Russia there are too many representatives of soft power and power structures, whom one can only call as weak and sluggish.

If Russian soft power has become sluggish, and power structures are weak in the international arena, then there can be no talk of protecting Russia's national interests.
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🇸🇾 About the Alleged New Government of Syria

Arab media have published the alleged composition of the Syrian government that is to be formed by the opposition within 18 months. Until then, transitional authorities will be in power: a new constitution is also to be written in the process.

A place in the cabinet has been given to everyone: from the leader of the terrorist organization Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) Abu Muhammad al-Julani, to members of the National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces (NCSROF) and independent activists and politicians, such as Ahmad Moaz al-Khatib.

The new cabinet is allegedly composed of the following individuals:

▪️Riyad Hijab - former Prime Minister of Syria. In 2012, he was dismissed and then defected to the "Free Syrian Army" (FSA) and settled in Qatar, from where he called on officials and officers of the SAA to desert. Until 2017, he was the head of the opposition High Negotiations Committee.

▪️Abu Muhammad al-Julani - the leader of Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham, which led the "march" on Damascus. He was once the leader of Jabhat al-Nusra, the Syrian branch of the terrorist organizations ISIS and al-Qaeda. Now in the West he is known as the "progressive jihadist" Ahmad al-Shara'a.

▪️Hadi al-Bahra - the head of the NCSROF, which is supported first by Western countries and then by Turkey. It, in turn, heads the pro-Turkish "Interim Government of Syria" (IGS), located in the territories controlled by the "Syrian National Army" (SNA) in the north of Aleppo province.

▪️Faisal al-Qasim - originally from the As-Suwayda province in southern Syria, a Druze by nationality. A TV host with a separate show on Al Jazeera. Apparently, his belonging to a religious minority and a kind of "specialization" opened the way for him to the Ministry of Information of Syria.

It is noteworthy that the majority of the possible ministers are members of the NCSROF, not very popular in the opposition Syrian environment. This is not surprising - they spend most of their time and sit outside of Syria, in particular on the territory of Turkey and Qatar.

It cannot be said that the "Government of Salvation of Syria" (GSS) formed by the terrorists of Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham in Idlib is popular. However, unlike their colleagues, they were able to form quite strong state institutions and even subordinate the formations of the former FSA.

🔻However, such a layout may well suit the West: the members of the NCSROF are people who have "not stained their hands with blood", these are kind of "secular democrats", representatives of the "moderate part of the Syrian opposition". Hence, HTS received only one seat in the cabinet, where Ahmad al-Shara'a took the post of Defense Minister.

How strong such a government will turn out to be is another question. It is also overlaid by the huge abundance of diverse factions of the "Syrian revolution", a large part of which sees democracy as disbelief, the opposite of what they fought for.

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