Democratic Azerbaijan four-headed horse
SOCIETY, Daily news | ankakh | October 22, 2010 21:19
“I am not at all an expert on democracy in Armenia. Everything depends on what we compare. If compared with Uzbekistan, it is one hundred per cent British democracy,” Adam Michnik, the Editor of the Gazeta Wyborcza and one of the founders of the Solidarity movement, stated at a meeting with students of Yerevan State University.
“You have problems. Other countries developed from authoritarianism to democracy – not only Armenia, but also Georgia, Ukraine, Hungary. We are all still alive, and Soviet authoritarianism is still alive under our skin,” he said.
According to him, the Armenian phenomenon is great culture and Christianity on the one hand, and election-related actions of protest and demonstrations in the streets over the last 20 years.
As regards democracy in Azerbaijan, Michnik compared it with a four-headed horse. “What do you think of a horse with four heads. Such one does not exist. Autoritarianism may be more liberal. We have a journalist who rites: a dog, that is, a cat. You say Azerbaijan, that is, democracy.”
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