...Our generation was the last one to perceive the “magic” of soviet children’s films; we have been brought up by stories about guys confronting the evil, struggling by their own strength against injustice and helping the wretched… These were the last years of the “Empire”, when still continuing “to thank the party for the lucky childhood” we could already feel the waft of the Independence in the elders’ talks. Perhaps just then we began to realize gradually the Value of the Motherland…

…Hunger, war, darkness and cold – such were the first years of independence (since 1991): liberation war in Karabakh, blockade, economic crisis and severe winters without electricity, gas and water. It was a hard time reeked of the kerosene of smoking lamps, raw smell of homemade bread from flour and water and porridge made of the wormy soybean and the milk powder received as aid; a hard period full of never-ending illnesses, deaths and departures of relatives. Now all this is remembered as a bad dream, but it was the reality – another road fork… The country gradually became deserted. People ran away in search of not a better but just a normal life. A lot of our friends left forever parting with the past and with us who stayed. But having chosen devotion and staying at Home we gained the Great Right to Struggle.

…And so it happened that we stayed in Armenia and forever cast in our lot with the Homeland. It was our own choice and only much later, after many years, we have understood that then we had chosen not just the Home but also our location of Struggle, our territory of responsibility… After all, the world is like a Puzzle where each person is responsible for a separate part but the mistake of someone means distortion of the whole picture.

And, continuing inner self-search, we do not stop to bear “our part of the Struggle” against the Matrix usurped the world, understanding that in such a time we are able and should still to preserve the Tradition. We believe that there is a Divine light in all of us, and we are guided by the simple Truth that “Alleging that you are Unable, you deprive yourself of the Omnipotence”...