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DISTURBING SIGHTINGS... OF THE GHOSTS OF TWO EVIL EMPIRES
http://www.armenianweekly.com/2013/08/15/disturbing-sightings-of-the-ghosts-of-two-evil-empires/
By Tatul Sonentz-Papazian // August 15, 2013
Almost a century after their violent "demise" at the hands of Vladimir
Ilyich Lenin and Mustafa Kemal Ataturk-two impromptu revolutionaries
whose cross-purposes of international and national socialism shaped the
gruesome decades that followed their success-the restless specters of
the "defunct" empires of the Russian czars and the Turkish padishahs
are making sporadic appearances on the political scene.
Tatul Sonentz Papazian
The location of this haunting seem to be the liberated and
yet-to-be-completed edifices of their former non-Russian and
non-Turkish subjects' homelands, particularly the steadily fading
patrimony of the Armenians. Clattering the ghostly chains of searing
memories of subjugation to imperial misrule marked by genocidal
slaughter and gruesome purges of not so long ago, this pair of
ghostly appearances are becoming more defined every day. Of course,
long-dormant specters do not appear without the occult expertise of
inspired conjurers imbued with denial-induced visions of past "glories"
waiting to be resurrected and offered their "rightful" place in a
time-defying, nostalgia-induced "reality" of retrograde "visionaries."
Two such visionary candidates to apprentice sorcery have revealed
themselves as the prophetic conjurers of these creepy apparitions:
President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin of the (formerly Soviet)
Russian Federation, of direct linage to the late Romanov Empire,
a.k.a. "Holy Mother of all Orthodox Russians"-(Saints preserve us!),
and leader of the "United Russia" Party-a euphemism for a desired
future, soon to make a transition from an ectoplasmic existence to
existing actuality, as "Imperial Russia."
And, in the other corner, Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan of the (formerly
Kemalist) Turkish "Republic" (immediate descendent of the Imperial
Ottoman Caliphate of all Sunni nations, a.k.a. "the Sick Man of
Europe," scourge of all infidel guiavours). A steadfast politician with
global ambitions (and somewhat unsteady diplomatic skills), Erdogan,
the head of the "Justice and Development" Party, heads a cabinet
assembled through the norms of a shared nostalgia for the glorious
days of the Ottomans, their spiritual and ideological forebears.
Judged by sporadic statements about its vision of the future of Asia
Minor and the Middle East, this group seems to spend most of its time
in seances conjuring the "benign" ghosts of Sultans Selim, Suleiman,
Mourad, et al., deftly trying not to arouse the gory specter of the
most notorious mass murderer of them all, Sultan Hamid II...
Two contemporary anachronisms of governance-since the Great War of
almost a century ago, the one "to end all wars"-have yet to shed
their imperial/colonial trappings, both overt and covert, before they
can claim true and deserved membership in the 21st-century family
of nations.
To make peace with their neighbors, they must renounce all genocidal
practices of economic, cultural, and political aggression and forced
ethnic cleansing and assimilation, still practiced endemically against
their not so negligible "minorities."
To start with, they have to cease their occult practices of haunting
their long-suffering neighbors with the despicable specters of two
defunct empires that still conjure an endless series of unspeakable,
agonizing horrors.
From: Baghdasarian
http://www.armenianweekly.com/2013/08/15/disturbing-sightings-of-the-ghosts-of-two-evil-empires/
By Tatul Sonentz-Papazian // August 15, 2013
Almost a century after their violent "demise" at the hands of Vladimir
Ilyich Lenin and Mustafa Kemal Ataturk-two impromptu revolutionaries
whose cross-purposes of international and national socialism shaped the
gruesome decades that followed their success-the restless specters of
the "defunct" empires of the Russian czars and the Turkish padishahs
are making sporadic appearances on the political scene.
Tatul Sonentz Papazian
The location of this haunting seem to be the liberated and
yet-to-be-completed edifices of their former non-Russian and
non-Turkish subjects' homelands, particularly the steadily fading
patrimony of the Armenians. Clattering the ghostly chains of searing
memories of subjugation to imperial misrule marked by genocidal
slaughter and gruesome purges of not so long ago, this pair of
ghostly appearances are becoming more defined every day. Of course,
long-dormant specters do not appear without the occult expertise of
inspired conjurers imbued with denial-induced visions of past "glories"
waiting to be resurrected and offered their "rightful" place in a
time-defying, nostalgia-induced "reality" of retrograde "visionaries."
Two such visionary candidates to apprentice sorcery have revealed
themselves as the prophetic conjurers of these creepy apparitions:
President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin of the (formerly Soviet)
Russian Federation, of direct linage to the late Romanov Empire,
a.k.a. "Holy Mother of all Orthodox Russians"-(Saints preserve us!),
and leader of the "United Russia" Party-a euphemism for a desired
future, soon to make a transition from an ectoplasmic existence to
existing actuality, as "Imperial Russia."
And, in the other corner, Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan of the (formerly
Kemalist) Turkish "Republic" (immediate descendent of the Imperial
Ottoman Caliphate of all Sunni nations, a.k.a. "the Sick Man of
Europe," scourge of all infidel guiavours). A steadfast politician with
global ambitions (and somewhat unsteady diplomatic skills), Erdogan,
the head of the "Justice and Development" Party, heads a cabinet
assembled through the norms of a shared nostalgia for the glorious
days of the Ottomans, their spiritual and ideological forebears.
Judged by sporadic statements about its vision of the future of Asia
Minor and the Middle East, this group seems to spend most of its time
in seances conjuring the "benign" ghosts of Sultans Selim, Suleiman,
Mourad, et al., deftly trying not to arouse the gory specter of the
most notorious mass murderer of them all, Sultan Hamid II...
Two contemporary anachronisms of governance-since the Great War of
almost a century ago, the one "to end all wars"-have yet to shed
their imperial/colonial trappings, both overt and covert, before they
can claim true and deserved membership in the 21st-century family
of nations.
To make peace with their neighbors, they must renounce all genocidal
practices of economic, cultural, and political aggression and forced
ethnic cleansing and assimilation, still practiced endemically against
their not so negligible "minorities."
To start with, they have to cease their occult practices of haunting
their long-suffering neighbors with the despicable specters of two
defunct empires that still conjure an endless series of unspeakable,
agonizing horrors.
From: Baghdasarian