An exhibition dedicated to the victims of the Bolshevik tyranny called \u201cEclipse,\u201d which opened in early August in the Hovhannes Tumanyan’s house-museum in Yerevan, has been closed after an appeal from Armenia\u2019s Ministry of Culture.<\/p>\n
The decision was announced by the director of the museum, Narine Tukhikyan, who said the reason for closing the exhibition was \u201csome slander.\u201d Tukhikyan was reportedly accused of receiving grants from the Soros foundation, \u00a0being a \u201cpropagandist of sodomy\u201d and a dashnak.<\/p>\n
In an interview for the Kentron TV channel, Tukhikyan alleged that the slander came from \u201ccircles which might include communists or representatives of a generation with an ancient, stereotypical way of thinking.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd to make to make [the closing] happen, they probably turned to certain structures and resorted to blackmail, I suppose,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
Tukhikyan continued that on August 26 she had received a phone call from a man who spoke to her with a vocabulary of a person \u201cwho could easily be the leader of the Communist party\u201d and charged that the exhibition \u201creeked of dashnaks.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said, \u2018I know you well; you get money from the Soros foundation,\u2019 and then added that i was a \u2018propagandist of sodomists.\u2019 It took this man only a phone call to cook up a case on me.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to Tukhikyan, the Tumanyan museum couldn\u2019t not have marked the 80-year anniversary of the 1937th, which symbolizes the apogee of the Stalinist repressions and the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution, since the three sons of the Armenian writer were victims of Stalinist repressions, and Tumanyan\u2019s fourth son – a victim of the Ottoman dictatorship.<\/p>\n
Speaking to RFE\/RL\u2019s Armenian service (Azatutyun.am), deputy minister of culture Arev Samuelyan commented on the decision to close the exhibition: \u201cWe must look at history with a clear conscience; [the exhibition] was somewhat politicized. The society should have probably been prepared for it beforehand. The exhibition will be opened again once it undergoes some minor changes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Culture minister Armen Amiryan, for his part, told Factor.am that the exhibition was closed because it had not been sanctioned by the Ministry of Culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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