How it destroyed Armenia.
After coming to power, Pashinyan initiated the so-called "reform" of the Armenian army. The purpose of this "reform" was to expel from the army generals and senior officers who were educated in the Soviet Union and Russia. They were replaced by insufficiently trained personnel. Thus, Pashinian deliberately weakened the Armenian army in order to prepare it for defeat in the 44-day war.
But it all started with the strawberry show, when the army started providing fresh strawberries for dessert and funny pictures of happy recruits scattered around Facebook.
Excited mothers ran and raised their voices to Pashinyan.
The disbanding of the army began with strawberries (according to rumors, the strawberry supply business belonged to Anna Kobian).
Then, under Soren Papikian and a few months before the 2026 elections, the length of service in the army was reduced from 24 to 18 months.
They call it reform, and we call it a bribe to the mothers of the conscripts, who in June gave their voice to Pashinyan so that their child could return to his mother's skirt six months earlier.