24-12-2012, 06:10 PM
Alik Bahshi
Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan
Can soul fromheart be stolen? Never!
You are my breath, you are my bread and water!
Your cities haveopened wide before me.
I am totallyyours. Devoted to you forever in sons!
Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan!
SamedVurgun
If, by repeatinghis homeland's name twice, the poet can strengthen his proud love of it, justlike the heading of this article, I want to reflect on the misfortune of thepeople of Azerbaijan, split into two by an interstate border.
A difficult fatehas fallen to the lot of the colonial people of the Russian Empire. Not manymanaged to break loose after the disintegration of the Soviet Union. But thosewho found freedom still suffer the consequences of being in the «prison of thepeople», moreover, the threat of being in it again is very real: so, if theWest had not requested that the advance of a Russian tank column to Tbilisi in2008 be halted, and if an American frigate had not appeared off the coast ofGeorgia, the Georgians would have been a people voluntarily under theprotection of Moscow twice. How can I not mention the (I believe) uniqueability of the Russians to release people, with the direct consequence ofannexing them to the empire. This feature of the Russians to present the peoplewith freedom, is an old tradition and is set down in textbooks on the historyof the USSR, and though, in the case of Afghanistan, it was somewhat weakened,in the long term no-one from the neighbouring nations of the Russian Empire isguaranteed against the maniacal desire of the Russians to release them from theheavy burden of freedom. For example, the rumour about this Russian featureeventually reached Turkestan, and in 1865 the Russians were invited by theinhabitants of Tashkent to release them from life. However, the Tashkentispersistently resisted this release, probably due to their masochistictendencies, and after the capture of the city were mercifully put to death,including women and children, which gave them the chance of voluntarily joiningthe Russian Empire posthumously. Or another example: Moscow met and compliedwith the persistent request of Fatali Khan of the Derbent khanate of Azerbaijanto become a vassal. This fine act of voluntary reunion with Russia wasparticularly noted subsequently by the fact that Kremlin cartographers enteredDagestan (the translation from Turkic the country of mountains) into thestructure of the Russian Federation, so that the inhabitants of the formerterritory of Azerbaijan were extremely glad and still express their gratitudeto Russia, by shooting and with explosions of houses in Buinaksk, and incertain cases the pleasure so overflows their souls that, not restraining theiremotions, they wear themselves out, involving instant transport to paradise of the people around, who naturallyvoluntarily join the heartfelt festivity, like the voluntary will of the peopleto join Russia and to be released from... Once, when I was in Soviet Lithuania,I heard from a local the phrase, spoken with enthusiastic sarcasm, which I willremember forever: «The Russians came and released us from meat andbutter».
So the Lithuanians expressed their personal gratitude to"Big Brother" for his concern about the health of the Lithuanianpeople. Really, what can be better than a diet to increase lifeexpectancy!
It must be saidthat the Azerbaijani people (it is more correct to call them Azerbayjani Turkicpeoples, as it defines the people in Southern Azerbaijan, and also, TurkishTurkic peoples, Iranians and Armenians), like no other, are in good favour withRussia. So, as a result of a series of "voluntary" accessions by thepeople of the Caucasus, Azerbaijan has been divided into Northern Azerbaijan asa part of the Russian Empire and Southern Azerbaijan in Iran, where more thantwice the number of Azerbaijanis live than in its northern part. Since ancienttimes, apparently in gratitude for the Baku oil, and possibly from purelyaltruistic motives, the concern of Moscow for the Azerbaijani people hascontinued unbroken, and except for the territory of Dagestan (The Derbentkhanate) the Azerbaijani people were also released from the territory of theZangezursky area ,which was transferred to Armenia on the grounds that, owingto the forward-looking national policy of Moscow, founded on the principle of«friendship of the people» (read ethnic cleansing), the number of the fraternalArmenian people has grown considerably. So, the territory of the formerKarabakh khanate of Azerbaijan, previously occupied by Armenians from Iran andTurkey, then received under the Soviet power the status of autonomous region, and in 1989-1991, afterthe complete deportation and destruction of the Azerbaijani population on thisland which had been Azerbaijani from time immemorial, the homeland of nationalpoets and musicians, Moscow actually transferred to Armenia all Karabakh withadjacent areas which were also released from the Azerbaijani population. As aresult of the Karabakh conflict Azerbaijan lost another 20 percent of itsterritory.
Ever sinceRussians first arrived in the Caucasus Russia pursued a policy of ethnicallyforcing out the Turkic population from the territories adjacent to Turkey andIran, and of populating these lands with Armenians, encouraging their migrationfrom neighboring countries. These mean actions concerning the Azerbaijanipeople reflect the real picture of coincidence at any moment of the strategicobjectives of Moscow and the Armenian Nazis' dream of Great Armenia, from seato sea. Yes, yes, exactly so, «from sea to sea» and not otherwise, for this mayexplain the slaughter of 1918 arranged with Armenians in Baku and other citiesof Azerbaijan. Having secretly supplied the numerous Armenian diaspora withweapons, the Dashnaki arranged a crafty mutiny unprecedented in cruelty. Aftermany years living side by side with Azerbaijanis, Armenians suddenly began torush into houses and literally cut down the unarmed population of the city,sparing neither children, nor women. Inhabitants sought safety in flight, therewas no possibility of organizing resistance to the excesses committed by armedmurderers. The pursuing bandits directed the refugees to suburban settlements.
I will allow myserlfa short lyrical digression.
In our house therewas a big ancient photograph of Grandfather; as a small child, I noticed thaton the portrait there was a closed-up hole on his chest. When asked how it gotthere, father answered curtly «From a sabre». He hated conversations onmilitary subjects, although he had lived all through the war, from beginning toend, in charge of an anti-aircraft battery.
At a more matureage I learned more details from mother: In Balakhan they heard terrible newsabout the cruelty of the Armenians, and the inhabitants, taking their childrenand food, hastily left the settlement at night. There was no particular placeto run. Baku and its neighboring villages are located on a peninsula. Theirflight was cut short by the desert coast of the Caspian Sea. Fortunately, theArmenians didn't think of moving to the sea. A few days later, whenGrandfather's family returned, in the house they found broken dishes and theportrait, punctured by a sabre, a colourful hint of what awaited them, as anArmenian family in the house.
In Azerbaijanthe Armenians applied the same tactics of ethnic cleansing of the territoryunder the proposed Armenian state, as in Turkey in 1915, the only differencebeing that in Turkey this action was carried out with the help of the imperialauthorities, and in Azerbaijan with the assistance of the communists. TheArmenian military leader of that time Andronnik cabled to the Kremlin about aglorious victory over the enemy. However the pleasure was short-lived. Turkey,despite a desperate situation on the fronts, directed a military rescue groupto Baku. (Turks and Azerbaijanis are one people, by analogy with Germans andAustrians). Having broken through the defence approaches to the city organizedby Dashnakis, the Turks entered the city, which was probably intended to enrichGreat Armenia with oil.
The Dashnakishoped that Russian would help them to create Great Armenia, but they grosslymiscalculated. Having set up the Armenian Socialist Republic (one of thekhanates of Azerbaijan), on the place of the Erevan khanate, the Kremlincommunists at the same time buried any hope of the Armenian Nazis ofindependence, which was echoed many years later in a series of acts ofterrorism carried out by an even stronger Dashnaki party, in the form ofexplosions in the Moscow subway and electric trains.
However, the mainthing which the Dashnaki ideologists, planning to construct the chimericalstate, in my opinion, didn't take into account is the mentality of the Armenianpeople.
Here it ispertinent to point out a feature in the mentality of the Armenian people,namely the aspiration to become an economically developed region, as a rulecities, creating there centres of compact accommodation. For example, a verysignificant fact, - at the moment of the conquest of Georgia by the Russians,there were more Armenians living in Tbilisi than Georgians. In Baku a wholedistrict of the city was called Armenikend, with an exclusively Armenianpopulation. By the way, in the Soviet period the number of Armenians making upthe population of Baku surpassed the number of Armenians living in allKarabakh. It could not be otherwise, but only the difference in mentality canexplain the fact that the Azerbaijani refugees from Armenia and the occupiedterritories fled to Azerbaijan whilst the Armenian refugees appeared anywhere,but in Armenia. Those few who still stayed in the homeland, soon left it withthe sole thought of never returning. But after the disintegration of the USSRwhen it would seem there was no special reason not to return to a free andmuch-missed Armenia, they appeared in considerable numbers in the rich Americanstate of California.
Whether theywere following in the footsteps of the Jews who, having created the Armenianlobby in the strongest world power, to solve their problems at the expense ofthe American taxpayers, and even the lives of American soldiers for theimplementation of Dashnaki ideology for the creation of Great Armenia. Thereason for the lack of patriotism can be looked for in the fact that today'sArmenia is an artificial formation of Armenians moved from Turkey, Iran andLebanon, as a result of the embodiment of the ideologies of the extremelynationalist party of Dashnaktsutyun, with the assistance of Moscow.
It is no secret,Armenians had great influence in the Kremlin under A.Mikoyan's communists,having created a powerful diaspora in Moscow, in other words it is possible toexplain that, of all the Soviet republics, only Armenia has become more andmore mononational and this with the fact that the number of the Armenianpopulation in Armenia itself has not increased, because of the continuousmigration of Armenians to the central cities of Russia, and also to resorts onthe Black Sea coast and North Caucasus. Not only the Azerbaijani population,but even the Russians, whose number has constantly grown in all other Sovietrepublics, have been forced out, didn't in fact stay in Armenia after thedisintegration of the USSR. By the way, the violent deportation of Azerbayjanisfrom Armenia has served as a stimulus to the Karabakh conflict. It was a wellplanned crafty action. (I will dare to remark that craftiness from Armenianshas been noted more than once in history). In its first stage in Azerbaijanthere were refugees from Kafan. And this in the USSR, in peace time! Expelledfrom their houses by Armenian fighters, they went to Baku, intending to lookfor protection and justice from the authorities, who were in total indecision,for all inquiries by the responsible parties from Baku were unanswered. Moscowmaintained a persistent silence. The Secretary General M. Gorbachev didn't takeany actions to stop the lawlessness in Armenia. What was the reason for suchstrange behaviour by a man in whose hands is concentrated total power in theconditions of such a totalitarian state as the Soviet Union? You cannot helpremembering the time of Gorbachev's visit to France, his meeting withrepresentatives of the Armenian diaspora. You can only guess how they manged tocommunicate with Gorbachev. The only thing that was undertaken by the cowardlyrepublican power, instead of protesting strongly agains the scandalousarbitrariness of the Armenian nationalists, was not to allow Kafansky refugeesinto Baku. Then Sumgait would not let them in. Time passed, and homelessrefugees were left alone, facing problems in an artificially createdinformation vacuum. The authorities didn't even set up a camp for them. Therewere also agents provocateurs, as it became clear subsequently, two Armenianswho, having used an artificially created and dangerous situation, pushed thedespairing people to a massacre of the Sumgait Armenians. It was so carefullyplanned, the main thing being that, at the very same time that it wasdocumented, and surprisingly quickly, a film appeared abroad about thevandalism of Azerbaijanis who had crossed the border, which for the USSR wasalready a nonsense. Note that at that time the ordinary population had no videocameras, and, what is more, no professional movie cameras. It is difficult toimagine that all this suddenly appeared at the right time and place. But it iseven more difficult to imagine that such a thing could occur in such atotalitarian state as the Soviet Union! In the state in which not only each tank, but each boss was registered, and, after all,all this unexpectedly appeared in the hands of Armenian fighters who had begunopen hostilities against Azerbaijan.
The planned tragedyof Sumgait legitimised the expulsion of Azerbaijanianis from Armenia, and thenthe capture of Karabakh. As I have said, Moscow kept silent about thelawlessness of the Armenian authorities, apparently having hidden behind theKremlin wall, the omnipotent secretary general was afraid to restore order inthe country. It is not however clear what the reason is for similar inaction,which can only be guessed. For the first time since the war thousands refugeesappeared in the USSR, direct evidence of the fact that Soviet power in theterritory of the Armenian Socialist Republic had ceased to exist. However, whenthe corresponding expulsion of Armenians from Baku began, Gorbachev immediatelysent armies to restore the Soviet power in Azerbaijan, and this on the basisthat in Armenia there was no Soviet power, and had not been any. Overall, thebreakup of the Soviet empire can be considered the beginning of the Karabakhconflict.
The Communistsin fact continued the tsarist policy of resettling the Armenians among theMuslim Turkic population of Azerbaijan from here, and deliberately creating theKarabakh problem, thanks to which today Russia has the possibility ofinfluencing a political situation strategically important for the Caucasianregion. Russia, whose economy is traditionally supported by the sale of energyresources, will do everything in its power to prevent thecompetitionrepresented by Azerbaijan on the European market. By the way, the unfortunateintervention of Russia in Georgia was intended to block the construction of theBaku-Ceyhan oil pipeline.
Armenia, armed with Russia, is onlywaiting for a green light from the Kremlin to begin hostilities for furtherannexation of lands neighbouring Azerbaijan and Georgia under Great Armenia, -the express purpose of the revived extremely nationalist party ofDashnaktsutyun, the guilty party in the tragedy of Turkish Armenians in 1915,when Dashnaks, with Russia's help, undertook ethnic destruction of Turkicpeoples in order to construct an Armenian state on the free territory. At atime when the Turkish army was conducting heavy fighting with Russian armies,Armenians mutinied in bloody fashion, not against the regular Turkish army,but, against the civilian population ,to cause general panic and to facilitatethe advance of Russian forces deep into Turkish territory. However, the crueltylnflicted by the Dashnaks caused a spontaneous mass resistance, resulting in anenormous number of victims amongst the Armenians. It is absolutely groundlessto accuse Turkey of genocide, because, unlike the Jewish one in Germany, nogenocide was planned by the Turkish authorities, nor carried out by the army,and what occurred was a corresponding national punishment, on destruction ofthe civilian population organised by Armenian Dashnaks. During the whole of theOttoman Empire Armenians lived safely among the Muslim population and nooppression was seen either on national, or on religious soil. Having failed inTurkey, the Dashnaks continued their plan and undertook a similar sly action in1918 in Azerbaijan, which also failed. But the main thing was that theDashnaks, by using their own kind of "Armenian Gambit" (to use chessterminology) to achieve their political goals each time exposed the Armenianpeople, as occurred in Turkey in 1915, in Baku in 1918 and in Sumgait in1988.
The attention by"Big Brother" affected not only the reduction of the territory ofAzerbaijan, but also its culture: the Azerbaijani people, of coursevoluntarily, by special order of Moscow, were twice deprived of the alphabet,so that it suddenly became illiterate; first Latin scriptwas brought in, andthen they quickly rethought and transferred to the Russian alphabet. By theway, non-compliance with this decree was equivalently anti-Soviet activity andwas severely punished.
It was just as ifRussians were obliged to use the Japanese alphabet, and after, let's say, fiveyears, Chinese. It would be interesting to see how Pushkin's verses would lookin Chinese hieroglyphs! And who would read Pushkin and Dostoevsky as a resultof the sudden universal illiteracy of the Russian population. And yet this isjust what happened in Azerbaijan. At best, if someone heard that there weresuch poets Nizami, Hagani, there would be no real possibility of reading them.In schools, instead of national literature, the study of the works ofexclusively Russian writers and poets was imposed and, of not to mention ofcourse that masterpiece of Soviet literature «How the steel was tempered».Frankly speaking, the name of the author of this great work has for some reasonbeen largely forgotten.
Having foundindependence, Northern Azerbaijan adopted a democratic constitution, howeverthe national mentality and corruption do not allow complete use of itsbenefits, and democracy( which is a self-evident gift, and of which the peoplehad no experience,) suddenly collapsed. Clearly, time is required, but in themeantime the country is developing economically, and Baku is taking the shapeof a modern megalopolis, in which the beauty of ancient architecture and daringarchitectural projects of skyscrapers are combined, yet dangerously at presentthere are the aggressive intentions of the Armenian Dashnaks with theirchimerical dream of building «Armenia from sea to sea».
Today Azerbaijanis a place where the strategic and economic interests of Putin's Russia and theTeheran obscurantists who want to prevent, firstly, energy resources from thecountries of the Caspian Basin getting on to the world market, and secondly,the union Northern and Southern Azerbaijan; and the smouldering Karabakhconflict is a good fuse to start hostilities which have every chance ofdeveloping into large-scale regional war, God forbid, in the Third World.
Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan
Can soul fromheart be stolen? Never!
You are my breath, you are my bread and water!
Your cities haveopened wide before me.
I am totallyyours. Devoted to you forever in sons!
Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan!
SamedVurgun
If, by repeatinghis homeland's name twice, the poet can strengthen his proud love of it, justlike the heading of this article, I want to reflect on the misfortune of thepeople of Azerbaijan, split into two by an interstate border.
A difficult fatehas fallen to the lot of the colonial people of the Russian Empire. Not manymanaged to break loose after the disintegration of the Soviet Union. But thosewho found freedom still suffer the consequences of being in the «prison of thepeople», moreover, the threat of being in it again is very real: so, if theWest had not requested that the advance of a Russian tank column to Tbilisi in2008 be halted, and if an American frigate had not appeared off the coast ofGeorgia, the Georgians would have been a people voluntarily under theprotection of Moscow twice. How can I not mention the (I believe) uniqueability of the Russians to release people, with the direct consequence ofannexing them to the empire. This feature of the Russians to present the peoplewith freedom, is an old tradition and is set down in textbooks on the historyof the USSR, and though, in the case of Afghanistan, it was somewhat weakened,in the long term no-one from the neighbouring nations of the Russian Empire isguaranteed against the maniacal desire of the Russians to release them from theheavy burden of freedom. For example, the rumour about this Russian featureeventually reached Turkestan, and in 1865 the Russians were invited by theinhabitants of Tashkent to release them from life. However, the Tashkentispersistently resisted this release, probably due to their masochistictendencies, and after the capture of the city were mercifully put to death,including women and children, which gave them the chance of voluntarily joiningthe Russian Empire posthumously. Or another example: Moscow met and compliedwith the persistent request of Fatali Khan of the Derbent khanate of Azerbaijanto become a vassal. This fine act of voluntary reunion with Russia wasparticularly noted subsequently by the fact that Kremlin cartographers enteredDagestan (the translation from Turkic the country of mountains) into thestructure of the Russian Federation, so that the inhabitants of the formerterritory of Azerbaijan were extremely glad and still express their gratitudeto Russia, by shooting and with explosions of houses in Buinaksk, and incertain cases the pleasure so overflows their souls that, not restraining theiremotions, they wear themselves out, involving instant transport to paradise of the people around, who naturallyvoluntarily join the heartfelt festivity, like the voluntary will of the peopleto join Russia and to be released from... Once, when I was in Soviet Lithuania,I heard from a local the phrase, spoken with enthusiastic sarcasm, which I willremember forever: «The Russians came and released us from meat andbutter».
So the Lithuanians expressed their personal gratitude to"Big Brother" for his concern about the health of the Lithuanianpeople. Really, what can be better than a diet to increase lifeexpectancy!
It must be saidthat the Azerbaijani people (it is more correct to call them Azerbayjani Turkicpeoples, as it defines the people in Southern Azerbaijan, and also, TurkishTurkic peoples, Iranians and Armenians), like no other, are in good favour withRussia. So, as a result of a series of "voluntary" accessions by thepeople of the Caucasus, Azerbaijan has been divided into Northern Azerbaijan asa part of the Russian Empire and Southern Azerbaijan in Iran, where more thantwice the number of Azerbaijanis live than in its northern part. Since ancienttimes, apparently in gratitude for the Baku oil, and possibly from purelyaltruistic motives, the concern of Moscow for the Azerbaijani people hascontinued unbroken, and except for the territory of Dagestan (The Derbentkhanate) the Azerbaijani people were also released from the territory of theZangezursky area ,which was transferred to Armenia on the grounds that, owingto the forward-looking national policy of Moscow, founded on the principle of«friendship of the people» (read ethnic cleansing), the number of the fraternalArmenian people has grown considerably. So, the territory of the formerKarabakh khanate of Azerbaijan, previously occupied by Armenians from Iran andTurkey, then received under the Soviet power the status of autonomous region, and in 1989-1991, afterthe complete deportation and destruction of the Azerbaijani population on thisland which had been Azerbaijani from time immemorial, the homeland of nationalpoets and musicians, Moscow actually transferred to Armenia all Karabakh withadjacent areas which were also released from the Azerbaijani population. As aresult of the Karabakh conflict Azerbaijan lost another 20 percent of itsterritory.
Ever sinceRussians first arrived in the Caucasus Russia pursued a policy of ethnicallyforcing out the Turkic population from the territories adjacent to Turkey andIran, and of populating these lands with Armenians, encouraging their migrationfrom neighboring countries. These mean actions concerning the Azerbaijanipeople reflect the real picture of coincidence at any moment of the strategicobjectives of Moscow and the Armenian Nazis' dream of Great Armenia, from seato sea. Yes, yes, exactly so, «from sea to sea» and not otherwise, for this mayexplain the slaughter of 1918 arranged with Armenians in Baku and other citiesof Azerbaijan. Having secretly supplied the numerous Armenian diaspora withweapons, the Dashnaki arranged a crafty mutiny unprecedented in cruelty. Aftermany years living side by side with Azerbaijanis, Armenians suddenly began torush into houses and literally cut down the unarmed population of the city,sparing neither children, nor women. Inhabitants sought safety in flight, therewas no possibility of organizing resistance to the excesses committed by armedmurderers. The pursuing bandits directed the refugees to suburban settlements.
I will allow myserlfa short lyrical digression.
In our house therewas a big ancient photograph of Grandfather; as a small child, I noticed thaton the portrait there was a closed-up hole on his chest. When asked how it gotthere, father answered curtly «From a sabre». He hated conversations onmilitary subjects, although he had lived all through the war, from beginning toend, in charge of an anti-aircraft battery.
At a more matureage I learned more details from mother: In Balakhan they heard terrible newsabout the cruelty of the Armenians, and the inhabitants, taking their childrenand food, hastily left the settlement at night. There was no particular placeto run. Baku and its neighboring villages are located on a peninsula. Theirflight was cut short by the desert coast of the Caspian Sea. Fortunately, theArmenians didn't think of moving to the sea. A few days later, whenGrandfather's family returned, in the house they found broken dishes and theportrait, punctured by a sabre, a colourful hint of what awaited them, as anArmenian family in the house.
In Azerbaijanthe Armenians applied the same tactics of ethnic cleansing of the territoryunder the proposed Armenian state, as in Turkey in 1915, the only differencebeing that in Turkey this action was carried out with the help of the imperialauthorities, and in Azerbaijan with the assistance of the communists. TheArmenian military leader of that time Andronnik cabled to the Kremlin about aglorious victory over the enemy. However the pleasure was short-lived. Turkey,despite a desperate situation on the fronts, directed a military rescue groupto Baku. (Turks and Azerbaijanis are one people, by analogy with Germans andAustrians). Having broken through the defence approaches to the city organizedby Dashnakis, the Turks entered the city, which was probably intended to enrichGreat Armenia with oil.
The Dashnakishoped that Russian would help them to create Great Armenia, but they grosslymiscalculated. Having set up the Armenian Socialist Republic (one of thekhanates of Azerbaijan), on the place of the Erevan khanate, the Kremlincommunists at the same time buried any hope of the Armenian Nazis ofindependence, which was echoed many years later in a series of acts ofterrorism carried out by an even stronger Dashnaki party, in the form ofexplosions in the Moscow subway and electric trains.
However, the mainthing which the Dashnaki ideologists, planning to construct the chimericalstate, in my opinion, didn't take into account is the mentality of the Armenianpeople.
Here it ispertinent to point out a feature in the mentality of the Armenian people,namely the aspiration to become an economically developed region, as a rulecities, creating there centres of compact accommodation. For example, a verysignificant fact, - at the moment of the conquest of Georgia by the Russians,there were more Armenians living in Tbilisi than Georgians. In Baku a wholedistrict of the city was called Armenikend, with an exclusively Armenianpopulation. By the way, in the Soviet period the number of Armenians making upthe population of Baku surpassed the number of Armenians living in allKarabakh. It could not be otherwise, but only the difference in mentality canexplain the fact that the Azerbaijani refugees from Armenia and the occupiedterritories fled to Azerbaijan whilst the Armenian refugees appeared anywhere,but in Armenia. Those few who still stayed in the homeland, soon left it withthe sole thought of never returning. But after the disintegration of the USSRwhen it would seem there was no special reason not to return to a free andmuch-missed Armenia, they appeared in considerable numbers in the rich Americanstate of California.
Whether theywere following in the footsteps of the Jews who, having created the Armenianlobby in the strongest world power, to solve their problems at the expense ofthe American taxpayers, and even the lives of American soldiers for theimplementation of Dashnaki ideology for the creation of Great Armenia. Thereason for the lack of patriotism can be looked for in the fact that today'sArmenia is an artificial formation of Armenians moved from Turkey, Iran andLebanon, as a result of the embodiment of the ideologies of the extremelynationalist party of Dashnaktsutyun, with the assistance of Moscow.
It is no secret,Armenians had great influence in the Kremlin under A.Mikoyan's communists,having created a powerful diaspora in Moscow, in other words it is possible toexplain that, of all the Soviet republics, only Armenia has become more andmore mononational and this with the fact that the number of the Armenianpopulation in Armenia itself has not increased, because of the continuousmigration of Armenians to the central cities of Russia, and also to resorts onthe Black Sea coast and North Caucasus. Not only the Azerbaijani population,but even the Russians, whose number has constantly grown in all other Sovietrepublics, have been forced out, didn't in fact stay in Armenia after thedisintegration of the USSR. By the way, the violent deportation of Azerbayjanisfrom Armenia has served as a stimulus to the Karabakh conflict. It was a wellplanned crafty action. (I will dare to remark that craftiness from Armenianshas been noted more than once in history). In its first stage in Azerbaijanthere were refugees from Kafan. And this in the USSR, in peace time! Expelledfrom their houses by Armenian fighters, they went to Baku, intending to lookfor protection and justice from the authorities, who were in total indecision,for all inquiries by the responsible parties from Baku were unanswered. Moscowmaintained a persistent silence. The Secretary General M. Gorbachev didn't takeany actions to stop the lawlessness in Armenia. What was the reason for suchstrange behaviour by a man in whose hands is concentrated total power in theconditions of such a totalitarian state as the Soviet Union? You cannot helpremembering the time of Gorbachev's visit to France, his meeting withrepresentatives of the Armenian diaspora. You can only guess how they manged tocommunicate with Gorbachev. The only thing that was undertaken by the cowardlyrepublican power, instead of protesting strongly agains the scandalousarbitrariness of the Armenian nationalists, was not to allow Kafansky refugeesinto Baku. Then Sumgait would not let them in. Time passed, and homelessrefugees were left alone, facing problems in an artificially createdinformation vacuum. The authorities didn't even set up a camp for them. Therewere also agents provocateurs, as it became clear subsequently, two Armenianswho, having used an artificially created and dangerous situation, pushed thedespairing people to a massacre of the Sumgait Armenians. It was so carefullyplanned, the main thing being that, at the very same time that it wasdocumented, and surprisingly quickly, a film appeared abroad about thevandalism of Azerbaijanis who had crossed the border, which for the USSR wasalready a nonsense. Note that at that time the ordinary population had no videocameras, and, what is more, no professional movie cameras. It is difficult toimagine that all this suddenly appeared at the right time and place. But it iseven more difficult to imagine that such a thing could occur in such atotalitarian state as the Soviet Union! In the state in which not only each tank, but each boss was registered, and, after all,all this unexpectedly appeared in the hands of Armenian fighters who had begunopen hostilities against Azerbaijan.
The planned tragedyof Sumgait legitimised the expulsion of Azerbaijanianis from Armenia, and thenthe capture of Karabakh. As I have said, Moscow kept silent about thelawlessness of the Armenian authorities, apparently having hidden behind theKremlin wall, the omnipotent secretary general was afraid to restore order inthe country. It is not however clear what the reason is for similar inaction,which can only be guessed. For the first time since the war thousands refugeesappeared in the USSR, direct evidence of the fact that Soviet power in theterritory of the Armenian Socialist Republic had ceased to exist. However, whenthe corresponding expulsion of Armenians from Baku began, Gorbachev immediatelysent armies to restore the Soviet power in Azerbaijan, and this on the basisthat in Armenia there was no Soviet power, and had not been any. Overall, thebreakup of the Soviet empire can be considered the beginning of the Karabakhconflict.
The Communistsin fact continued the tsarist policy of resettling the Armenians among theMuslim Turkic population of Azerbaijan from here, and deliberately creating theKarabakh problem, thanks to which today Russia has the possibility ofinfluencing a political situation strategically important for the Caucasianregion. Russia, whose economy is traditionally supported by the sale of energyresources, will do everything in its power to prevent thecompetitionrepresented by Azerbaijan on the European market. By the way, the unfortunateintervention of Russia in Georgia was intended to block the construction of theBaku-Ceyhan oil pipeline.
Armenia, armed with Russia, is onlywaiting for a green light from the Kremlin to begin hostilities for furtherannexation of lands neighbouring Azerbaijan and Georgia under Great Armenia, -the express purpose of the revived extremely nationalist party ofDashnaktsutyun, the guilty party in the tragedy of Turkish Armenians in 1915,when Dashnaks, with Russia's help, undertook ethnic destruction of Turkicpeoples in order to construct an Armenian state on the free territory. At atime when the Turkish army was conducting heavy fighting with Russian armies,Armenians mutinied in bloody fashion, not against the regular Turkish army,but, against the civilian population ,to cause general panic and to facilitatethe advance of Russian forces deep into Turkish territory. However, the crueltylnflicted by the Dashnaks caused a spontaneous mass resistance, resulting in anenormous number of victims amongst the Armenians. It is absolutely groundlessto accuse Turkey of genocide, because, unlike the Jewish one in Germany, nogenocide was planned by the Turkish authorities, nor carried out by the army,and what occurred was a corresponding national punishment, on destruction ofthe civilian population organised by Armenian Dashnaks. During the whole of theOttoman Empire Armenians lived safely among the Muslim population and nooppression was seen either on national, or on religious soil. Having failed inTurkey, the Dashnaks continued their plan and undertook a similar sly action in1918 in Azerbaijan, which also failed. But the main thing was that theDashnaks, by using their own kind of "Armenian Gambit" (to use chessterminology) to achieve their political goals each time exposed the Armenianpeople, as occurred in Turkey in 1915, in Baku in 1918 and in Sumgait in1988.
The attention by"Big Brother" affected not only the reduction of the territory ofAzerbaijan, but also its culture: the Azerbaijani people, of coursevoluntarily, by special order of Moscow, were twice deprived of the alphabet,so that it suddenly became illiterate; first Latin scriptwas brought in, andthen they quickly rethought and transferred to the Russian alphabet. By theway, non-compliance with this decree was equivalently anti-Soviet activity andwas severely punished.
It was just as ifRussians were obliged to use the Japanese alphabet, and after, let's say, fiveyears, Chinese. It would be interesting to see how Pushkin's verses would lookin Chinese hieroglyphs! And who would read Pushkin and Dostoevsky as a resultof the sudden universal illiteracy of the Russian population. And yet this isjust what happened in Azerbaijan. At best, if someone heard that there weresuch poets Nizami, Hagani, there would be no real possibility of reading them.In schools, instead of national literature, the study of the works ofexclusively Russian writers and poets was imposed and, of not to mention ofcourse that masterpiece of Soviet literature «How the steel was tempered».Frankly speaking, the name of the author of this great work has for some reasonbeen largely forgotten.
Having foundindependence, Northern Azerbaijan adopted a democratic constitution, howeverthe national mentality and corruption do not allow complete use of itsbenefits, and democracy( which is a self-evident gift, and of which the peoplehad no experience,) suddenly collapsed. Clearly, time is required, but in themeantime the country is developing economically, and Baku is taking the shapeof a modern megalopolis, in which the beauty of ancient architecture and daringarchitectural projects of skyscrapers are combined, yet dangerously at presentthere are the aggressive intentions of the Armenian Dashnaks with theirchimerical dream of building «Armenia from sea to sea».
Today Azerbaijanis a place where the strategic and economic interests of Putin's Russia and theTeheran obscurantists who want to prevent, firstly, energy resources from thecountries of the Caspian Basin getting on to the world market, and secondly,the union Northern and Southern Azerbaijan; and the smouldering Karabakhconflict is a good fuse to start hostilities which have every chance ofdeveloping into large-scale regional war, God forbid, in the Third World.