Vardan Arutyunyan: "We believe our fancies that our borders lie from sea to sea"

According to Arutyunyan Armenians patriotism resembles patriotism of Chaush, Dro, Andranik, Sose and Serob.

Their patriotism covered robbery, socialism, terrorism and nationalism, which were common at that time. Armenians' patriotism is identical to anti-Turk feelings. Genocide is still our visit card. We hang maps showing Tigran's marches on the walls. We declare that our borders lie from sea to sea and believe our fancies. We live with illusions, he writes.

Vardan Arutyunyan notes that Armenians celebrate the 2000th anniversary of their theater basing on a tsar's plays written 20 centuries ago.

Nobody except this tsar engaged in this in the past 2000 years. We write books devoted to the 2000th anniversary of the theater. We are proud of ancient history. But we could not preserve or create anything except the church. The most ancient city of Armenia is 200 years old, he writes.

The center chief writes that there is a Diaspora which considers itself great and patriotic. But this Diaspora lives with nostalgic feelings.

We admit betrayers, spies into our society. Such kinds of people are isolated in normal societies. But these people live among us and even sometimes rule us, Arutyunyan writes, APA reports.