ANC: ideas of 1988 movement are alive, and Victory`s secret remains  the same

ArmInfo. The movement that began in February 1988 was invincible, since the Armenian people  formed their own agenda, which was completely free from foreign influence, propaganda cliches and alien programs imposed from outside. Vice-chairman of the Armenian National Congress party Levon  Zurabyan wrote on his Facebook page on the occasion of the 36th anniversary of the Artsakh movement.

According to Zurabyan, the old Soviet system was discredited, and  other powers had not yet had time to take advantage of the resulting  vacuum and reach out to the people who were enjoying the taste of  freedom.  "The main secret of our victory was this, we were confident  and naive, with this naive confidence and our boundless sense of  rightness we overthrew the conspiracies and interventions of  predatory forces," the politician noted.

He added that the Armenian people lost Victory and Artsakh when  geopolitical programs, ideological campaigns and the influence of  foreign elites and the cobwebs of their spy network gradually divided  its agenda. "Unnoticedly, our society was divided into insiders and  outsiders, who began to hate each other and lost the purpose and  meaning of the movement. Our state system found itself in the same  situation, which, from an implementer of its own agenda, turned into  a toy of many foreign powers, abandoning its only mission - serving  the interests of the Armenian people. But the ideas of the movement  are alive, and the secret of Victory remains the same. May God give  us the strength to rediscover the true state-creative spirit that  comes from the depths of the souls of our people, and someday again  earn the glory of the spirit of the victorious Movement of 1988," the  politician emphasized.

On February 20, 1988, the extraordinary session of the Council of  People's Deputies 20th convocation of NKAO passed a decision to  appeal to the Supreme Councils of the Azerbaijani SSR and Armenian  SSR "to demonstrate a sense of deep understanding of the aspirations  of the Armenian population of Nagorno Karabakh and resolve the issue  of transferring NKAO from the Azerbaijani SSR to the Armenian SSR, at  the same time to intercede with the Supreme Council of the USSR to  reach a positive resolution on the issue of transferring the region  from the Azerbaijani SSR to the Armenian SSR".