Armenian premier on need for symbol `rebranding`  

ArmInfo. Perhaps we need to rebrand our symbols. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated this during a meeting with representatives of IT companies in Engineering City.

"As what? As a symbol of what are we evaluating Baghramyan? This is  also very important, since someone might say, 'Babajanyan was  involved in something in Hungary, I don't know.' We must put him in  the right place, what we value him for-his path, his talent, or  whether we consider him a manifestation of our people's military  talent. Because if someone says they value him as a member of the  Soviet Union party or something, there might be a short circuit.

So, creating a heroic image is also important-what is Baghramyan a  symbol of for us? "Because we accepted him according to the Soviet  Union formula, but, pardon the word, we didn't adapt him to the  independent Republic of Armenia, and because of this, people might  say, 'What's so Soviet and expansionist about this?'"

The question isn't about replacing Baghramyan, but about formalizing  why he is a hero to us, since we continue to consider him a hero out  of inertia, within the framework of the formula that existed during  the Soviet Union," Nikol Pashinyan said.

Hovhannes Khristoforovich Baghramyan (1897-1982) - Soviet commander  and statesman, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1955), twice Hero of the  Soviet Union (1944, 1977). Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR  (1955-1956, 1958-1968). He was born to an Armenian family in the  village of Chardakhlu (Northern Artsakh) in the Elizavetpol  Governorate of the Russian Empire.

Amazasp Khachaturovich Babajanyan (1906-1977) was a Soviet military  commander, Hero of the Soviet Union, and Chief Marshal of the Armored  Forces. He was born on February 18, 1906, in Chardakhlu (Northern  Artsakh) to an Armenian peasant family. Babajanyan famously said,  "Allow me to take back Western Armenia!" He participated in the  suppression of anti-Soviet uprisings in Hungary, for which he was  awarded the Order of Kutuzov, 1st Class.