Today.Az » Politics » The "horrors" of propaganda: Armenia-2031
15 May 2026 [13:13] - Today.Az
There is a propaganda video on social media telling about
what Armenia will be like in 2031 if Nikol Pashinyan remains in power and the
Azerbaijanis return there. A completely poor product generated by a neural
network is cooked up in the tearfully snotty style inherent in Armenian
propaganda. A mother tells her son that she voted for Pashinyan in 2026 and
that's how it ended. The video was
clearly shot by order of the revanchist opposition, it is possible that it was
from Karapetyan's party. It all looks very stupid and funny, especially
pitifully-the confused faces of the heroes of the video.
By the way, this is already a tradition for Armenian
revanchists.
I remember that before the snap parliamentary elections in
2021, the opposition also distributed such poor video propaganda. I was very
amused by the video in which an Azerbaijani "traffic cop" stops an
Armenian driver on the road and fines him. And it became especially funny
after, a year later, an Armenian was actually stopped by the Azerbaijani traffic
police on the Goris-Gafan road and a fine was issued to him. The fact is that
one of the sections of this road, built in Soviet times, passes through
Azerbaijani territory. We laughed, and
our neighbors froze in horror - the pre-election video of the revanchists
turned out to be so prophetic.
And here is another fruit of propaganda. Everyone probably
remembers him too. Vicious bearded Azerbaijani security forces confiscate fish
caught in Sevan from an elderly Armenian fisherman. The fisherman is in pain
and rips up a ballot paper in support of Pashinyan.
The heroine of another video also refuses to support Nikol
Pashinyan. A mother, whose daughter reads aloud a history textbook that says
that Shusha is an Azerbaijani city, gets upset and throws the ballot for the
ruling party in the trash.
These tools did not help the revanchists win the elections.
And this is despite the fact that Armenia lost the war, lost the occupied lands
and was left in a broken trough. But the opposition expects to continue to put
pressure on the psyche of the Armenian society with its video products. So that
they realize what "trouble" Nikol Pashinyan's retention of power
threatens them with. The return of Azerbaijanis to Armenia was chosen by the
revanchists as the main trump card against the current government.
Samvel Karapetyan and his party are particularly trying to
manipulate this argument. During the election campaign of the Russian
billionaire, the prospect of the return of Azerbaijanis expelled from Armenia
to their native lands became the main horror story, which he is trying to
favorably set himself against Nikol Pashinyan.
In every speech, in every post on social networks,
Karapetyan paints terrible pictures of the future of Armenia in the event of
the return of the Azerbaijanis. He urges not to vote for Pashinyan, so that
Azerbaijanis do not return to Syunik, Vardenis and so on, because this is the
most terrible thing that can happen to Armenia. Escalation, tension, a new war,
and the loss of territories by Armenia in this case are small things. The main
thing is not to let the Azerbaijanis back in. And to do this, we must choose
him, Samvel, who will never allow the indigenous people to return to the lands
of their ancestors. He will lie across the threshold so that they do not pass,
he will do anything to preserve the "purity" of Armenia.
At the same time, the billionaire, who believes that his
billions decide everything, promises the separatists Azerbaijani lands,
claiming that sooner or later they will return to Karabakh and live there on
their own terms happily, as before. And it absolutely excludes the prospect of
Azerbaijanis returning to the lands where they lived for centuries and from
where they were expelled as a result of ethnic cleansing. Karapetyan demands
from Pashinyan to publicly swear that the Azerbaijani will not set foot in
Armenia.
Won't step? Seriously?
Billionaire's nephew Narek Karapetyan, who heads the list of
candidates of the Karapetyan party, infiltrated the Armenian state property
procurement website and almost got hit when he discovered that Azerbaijan
appeared on the list of countries whose citizens are allowed to participate in
auctions for the sale of real estate and land in Armenia. Karapetyan Jr. tried
to present this innovation as an alleged condition set by Azerbaijan for
Armenia to sign a peace treaty.
According to Karapetyan, in early March, the Armenian
Cadastre Committee reported that Azerbaijani citizens own 8 real estate
properties in the country, including apartments, an apartment building and a
public building. From this, the revanchist concludes that if Pashinyan retains
power, a program of resettlement of Azerbaijanis to Armenia will be
implemented.
It is interesting to observe how the political forces of
Armenia manipulate numbers. When it came to responsibility for ethnic
cleansing, everyone shouted about the alleged exaggeration of the number of the
Azerbaijani population, which, according to Yerevan, was only a few dozen at
the time of the outbreak of the conflict. "There were not 250,000
Azerbaijanis in Armenia," the propaganda screamed. The same propaganda
that today speaks of 300,000 Azerbaijanis, whose return "threatens"
the Armenians. Revanchists believe that 250,000 is not so "scary" as
to take away votes from Pashinyan.
Well, there are certain advantages to this. At least in
Armenia, they admitted that they had ethnically cleansed hundreds of thousands
of Azerbaijanis. Previously, some politicians agreed that they were seeing
Azerbaijanis for the first time in their lives. The issue of ethnic cleansing
in Armenia has not been raised in the international arena either. It was as if
these hundreds of thousands of people did not exist at all. It was only in
December 2024 that they were first remembered within the walls of the United
Nations. During the consideration of Armenia's periodic report at the 114th
session of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination,
Committee member Chung Chinsung expressed surprise at the fact that the report
contains many claims against Azerbaijan, while not a single Azerbaijani lives
in Armenia. A member of the Committee asked for clarification from the
representative of Armenia. Sweating with excitement, the representatives of the
Armenian delegation had to admit that Azerbaijanis do not live in Armenia.
However, they could not explain where 250,000 people had gone overnight.
So, we welcome the recognition by Samvel Karapetyan's gang
of the indisputable fact of the expulsion of the second largest ethnic group
from Armenia. Although the revanchists are trying to mitigate the negative
effect on Armenia by replacing "return" with
"resettlement," this trick does not change the essence.
Does Samvel Karapetyan understand that if Armenian voters
are so stupid that they reject peace by voting for a revanchist, no patrons
will be able to provide him with the comfort in which the Karabakh clan ruled?
Today, everything is different, the realities are different, the geopolitical
situation is different, and Azerbaijan is completely different. Does he really
think that he will be able to dodge the topic of the return of Azerbaijanis to
Armenia if he even mentions the return of Armenians to Azerbaijan?
We can explain to our neighbors what awaits Armenia if the
revanchists come to power without any commercials. Let's explain in the words
of the President of Azerbaijan, which were voiced in Zangilan: there are enough
circles living in the political sphere of Armenia that hate the Azerbaijani
people and the state, and if they come to power, then the Armenian people will
be in big trouble.
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