Karen Vrtanesyan writes:
"Many of the CP members may think that there are only "inter-tribe" conflicts in the party now and one type will lose and the other/others will win.
But if they read a book, they would know that any "revolutionary leader", when he comes to power, at some point begins to clear the ranks of the party from "old Bolsheviks". Because those who traveled with him know too much about the leader and have too many ambitions.
In other words, if any self-centered revolutionary movement wins, the leader starts the process of getting rid of "old comrades-in-arms" from the day after the victory.
These are processes arising from the logic of self-centered dictatorial regimes, which are inevitable.
I can't think of any case when the conventionally speaking "old Bolsheviks" managed to win that struggle.
By the time they understand what is happening, it is already too late to change something.
The only thing they can do is to leave the country and publicize the regime's crimes.
By the way, Arsen Torosyan, who is rolling bochka "on an old bidzek" today, feels that he "will not reach his home", but he will definitely reach it.
