The Communist Party of Armenia on Thursday held a campaign rally with the voters in the square of Masis town of the country’s Ararat province.

Speaking before the voters, Chairman of the Progressives United Communist Party of Armenia, Vazgen Safaryan, recalled that the Soviet authorities created a system, under which the Armenian people began to revive, Armenian News – NEWS.am correspondent reports.

“In 70 years, the number of the population increased up to 3.7 million, 1 million 200,000 people living in Yerevan then. During the years of the Soviet regime, Armenia became a strong industrial country. We urge you to choose the party, which gave the nation a chance to move forward. We were a manufacturing and exporting country, whereas now we have turned into an importing and consuming one,” Safaryan stressed.

According to him, the task of the party is to make Armenia an industrial country. “We aim to re-launch all our plants—Nairit, ArmEletroMachine, the tire plant, as well as all those plants, which were the result of a creative thought and glory of our people,” Safaryan noted,

A 67-year-old resident of Masis, Sanasar, complained of the current healthcare system of Armenia. “During the rule of the communists we had no such issues. We lived a normal life. Once the Soviet Union collapsed, our cruel life began,” he said.

91-year old grandpa Ashot, for his part, assured that he will remain a “Lenin soldier” till the very end of his life.

Referring to Secretary of Ararat district committee, Gurgen Tevosyan, Safaryan told Armenian News – NEWS.am that the former is already at home. “We talked to the head doctor, who said that everything is fine,” Safaryan added,

Earlier, during the meeting with the voters in the town of Vedi, Gurgen Tevosyan slipped and fell down. He was hospitalized.