These People Want to Bring Back Autocracy and Tyranny: Aleksanyan

There has never been a KGB agent who was not enamored with Stalin, but for a bishop of the Armenian Apostolic Church to allow himself to speak nostalgically and positively about Stalin is simply disgraceful, an absolute disgrace. This was stated by Vahagn Aleksanyan, a member of the "Civil Contract" faction, during a conversation with journalists in the National Assembly.

"During the Stalinist repressions, those who were oppressed, those exiled to Siberia, the murdered priests and clergy have turned in their graves as the Stalinist-hailing priest gave his infamous speech. These people are trying to take advantage of all the fruits of democracy to bring back autocracy and tyranny in Armenia. The fact that they criticize the government on a daily basis and generate maximum hate speech through their media outlets is done so that later, when they can establish tyrannical regimes in their dreams, they can absolutely prohibit any free speech and any criticism, for example against themselves," Aleksanyan noted.