The Curious Case of the Sister Misses

Miss Armenia 2001


Miss Armenia 2003

Remember the the recent post about Miss Armenia 1998? Before I make any blog entry, I do a quick research to make sure I know what I'm talking about. At first, I planned to cover all the girls that have become Miss Armenias, but decided not to when I noticed a lack of high-quality pictures. Oh, but there was something else, as well.

Let's take it one step at a time.

Miss Armenia 2001 is named Irina Tovmasyan; Miss Armenia 2003 is named Lusine Tovmasyan. If you haven't guessed already, they are sisters. However, the leader of the Armenian Communist Party is named Ruben Tovmasyan. Coincidence? Let's make some connections:

I love Armenian girls: they are pretty. Of course, the prettiest is my beautiful girlfriend, but that's besides the point. Two sisters, winning Miss Armenia two years apart, neither jumping out at me as being extraordinarily beautiful, and being connected - possibly as grand-daughters - to the ruler of Armenia's Communist Party. Call me paranoid, but the likelihood of the Tovmasian Sisters having both the luck and the beauty - and a few other things - to become Miss Armenia within two years of each other is simply not possible.

Obvious? Maybe! But it's even juicier with the facts, isn't it?

Pictures from Ardani.net

Former Communists Want A Red Reunion!

First a claim of record membeship, and now this.

Russian Communists urged Saturday the Communist parties of ex-Soviet states to join their efforts to restore the former Soviet Union.

Communist leaders from Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Armenia and other ex-Soviet republics gathered Saturday in the Russian capital to discuss the strengthening of future cooperation and the development of a common strategy to re-unite the former members of the now-defunct Soviet Union.

The participants of the meeting issued a statement calling upon all parties on the territory of the former Soviet Union that adhere to Communist ideology to join the fight for the "socialist development of brotherly nations and their unification into a Union State."

"Without a union between Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and other brotherly republics that used to be members of the Soviet Union, we do not have a future," Zyuganov said.

Communism is always made out to be a bad, evil force, but the way I remember it is much different. Do I want it back? It's hard to answer, but most likely not. There are problems that cannot be solved even today with the tools of a quasi-democracy: how can we expect a failed system to ever do the job?

Source: RIAN

Communist Party Leader Claims Record Number of Voters

Looks like Gagik "Dodi Gago" Tsarukian is being left in the dust by Armenia's Communist Party Hayastani Komunistakan Kusaktsutyun (HKK)! Well, let's see how and why:

Ruben Tovmasian [the leader of HKK] said his party received proposals of forming alliances from some opposition forces, but added, " We need not to form alliances as our electorate will not betray us."

Mr. Tovmasian claimed that 530,000 pensioners, "who fought for the Communist Party and continue to trust it, will give their ballots to it. Our ultimate goal is to go to parliament and to present to the Armenian nation our lofty ideas and give it a chance to make their choice," he said.

"I am not saying that Armenia must sacrifice its independence, but we think that a union of all former Soviet republics should be made, void of all previous mistakes," he concluded.

So not only do they claim 530,000 pensioners, but they are so confident in their said claims that they will disregard any alliance proposals! Do keep in mind that this is most likely the communist propaganda at play. Why? Because in the link above, they had only claimed 40,000 voters and according to 2003 elections, they had just over 18,000 supporters.

I suppose it is possible to go from 18,000 to 530,000 supporters - who are mostly pensioners, by the way - but is it likely? I think it's a bluff, but I could be wrong.

Source: ArmenPress

Germany's "Die Linke" Party Denounces Genocide Denial

Die Linke is the German Communist party. From the article:

Hakki Keskin, one of the members of the German communist party Die Linke denounces denial of the Armenian Genocide in 1915...

The comments of Keskin, who previously was the chairman of the Turkish central council of Germany, aroused indignation of the German Conservative, Socialist and Green parties' representatives.

In order to release Keskin from his post and to restore the image of Die Linke as a human rights protection organization, the party leaders Oskar Lafontaine and Grygor Gysi published a declaration on the issue of the Armenia Genocide in Ottoman Turkey. "The fact of extermination of the Armenian people by Ottoman Turkey's government is beyond doubt, and the resolution on this issue, adopted by Bundestag in 2005, underlies the position of Die Linke," the declaration says.

The events at the beginning of the last century are not characterized by the term "genocide" in the [Bundestag] resolution. However, it has a paragraph mentioning that international historian call this "The Armenian Genocide".

It may be in our favor, but it is still politics and for political reasons: mostly power.

Source: Arka