And We Will Be Killed Without Even a Single Shot: Davit Grigoryan

Davit Grigoryan, the former spokesman for the Ministry of Environment, wrote on his Facebook page: "DEFEATED WITHOUT SHOTS (vanishing fates) The village of Kutt in Gegharkunik Province, which became known to the wider Armenian society due to constant targeting by the enemy in recent weeks, has only 1 first-grader this year.

One student will enter the first grade. Do you think countries are destroyed only by weapons and bullets? No way. The fate of a state is determined when its border communities will not provide soldiers in 11-12 years. Where, in border villages, there will be no weddings in 12-15 years. The years of the country are counted, where the average age of residents in strategically significant communities will be 50-60 years in 20 years, and the number of farms will be less than ten.

If there are no cultural, human, and spiritual streams nourishing the center, which will later transform the center into a flourishing metropolis, that center will soon cease to exist as well.

We are in Yerevan, where there are so many children studying at Pushkin School that the teaching process has to be divided into two halves of the day, and three children sit around the desks at the same time to make room. And at the same time, the first-grader from Kutt will enter an empty classroom, where he is alone with his teacher, whose windows are Soviet-era, not Euro-standard, where there is no centralized heating like at Chekhov School in Yerevan, but rather a wooden stove around which, during the cold months, one student and one teacher will learn the alphabet.

And we will be killed without even a single shot. Silently, indifferently to our own death, we will perish unstoppably, we will go. We will go as long as only one student will enter the first grade in Kutt. Happy September 1 to Kutt's Zhirair Gevorgyan; I wish you hope and faith, perseverance and will, principle and Motherland, dear little one."