Post-election Armenia with the recent domestic political developments has become a rostrum for polarized intellectuals who are using it to voice criticism against one another and preach "the true role of an intellectual" in society.
Intelligentsia that traditionally, and especially during times of repression, meant the elite of the society, the brightest of the nations' minds, fighting injustice and often punished for putting people's right to freedom above all, has, ironically, had its profile distorted over the two decades of Armenia's independence.
If some of them today are at Liberty Square next to Raffi Hovannisian, participating in the post-election standoff, many more are on the other side of the barricade, openly preaching the pro-establishment propaganda.
Armenian News
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