Symbol of Defeat – Nikol Pashinyan: The Need for a Movement of Armenia
September 8, 2025 - 7or.am published the following Facebook post by Andranik Tevanyan, leader of the "Mother Armenia" movement:
"After the First Artsakh War, our primary task should have been to preserve our victory through state-building, developing a capable military, and cultivating a quality citizenry. Sadly, neither Armenia nor Artsakh followed that path. While there was some relative progress, no systemic efforts were made. Instead, the country became dominated by a clan-based system, election fraud, incompetence, arrogance, economic oligarchy, the depoliticization of politics, and a general moral decay.
As a result, the state became increasingly alienated from its citizens. Fairness grew scarce, and social polarization deepened. Institutions failed to reach the necessary level of functionality. Politics devolved into bargaining, and ordinary citizens were left to face their problems alone. The outcome of all this was Nikol Pashinyan - the personification of everything that went wrong in the country. He is the failure of our education system. He is the diagnosis of the national illness. He is a disgrace on a global scale.
Today, Nikol Pashinyan is openly promoting an anti-statehood agenda.
The slogan ‘Our soldiers fell for nothing’ has already played its destructive role. Artsakh was treacherously handed over to Azerbaijan. Now, a new slogan has taken its place: ‘The Republic of Armenia for nothing.’ Under this new slogan, they are attempting to reshape the citizens of Armenia into a defeated, biologically reduced type - preoccupied only with survival and stripped of any collective identity or sense of ‘us’. This paves the way for Nikol Pashinyan to meet Turkish-Azerbaijani demands and to save his own skin.
Nikol has become the symbol of defeat, and he seeks to turn the Republic of Armenia and its ‘proud’ citizens into the same. His and his partner’s slogan is: ‘Losing is fashionable.’ According to their logic, defeat should permeate every area of life. Loss must be normalized - turned into a lifestyle, something to accept as natural.
Our task is to break these anti-statehood slogans and restore a national code of victory.
True peace means establishing a secure and sovereign state, becoming a recognized actor in international relations, becoming a reliable ally and securing a trustworthy ally, building a strong economy, addressing the social needs of our citizens, and reviving the sense of ‘us’ and statehood. A change of power is the most vital precondition for this.
This is why we need the MOVEMENT OF ARMENIA.”
