Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan

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    Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan


    Can soul from heart be stolen? Never!
    You are my breath, you are my bread and water!
    Your cities have opened wide before me.
    I am totally yours. Devoted to you forever in sons!
    Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan!

    Samed Vurgun



    If, by repeating his homeland's name twice, the poet can strengthen his proud love of it, just like the heading of this article, I want to reflect on the misfortune of the people of Azerbaijan, split into two by an interstate border.

    A difficult fate has fallen to the lot of the colonial people of the Russian Empire. Not many managed to break loose after the disintegration of the Soviet Union. But those who found freedom still suffer the consequences of being in the «prison of the people», moreover, the threat of being in it again is very real: so, if the West had not requested that the advance of a Russian tank column to Tbilisi in 2008 be halted, and if an American frigate had not appeared off the coast of Georgia, the Georgians would have been a people voluntarily under the protection of Moscow twice. How can I not mention the (I believe) unique ability of the Russians to release people, with the direct consequence of annexing them to the empire. This feature of the Russians to present the people with freedom, is an old tradition and is set down in textbooks on the history of 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 is guaranteed against the maniacal desire of the Russians to release them from the heavy burden of freedom. For example, the rumour about this Russian feature eventually reached Turkestan, and in 1865 the Russians were invited by the inhabitants of Tashkent to release them from life. However, the Tashkentis persistently resisted this release, probably due to their masochistic tendencies, and after the capture of the city were mercifully put to death, including women and children, which gave them the chance of voluntarily joining the Russian Empire posthumously. Or another example: Moscow met and complied with the persistent request of Fatali Khan of the Derbent khanate of Azerbaijan to become a vassal. This fine act of voluntary reunion with Russia was particularly noted subsequently by the fact that Kremlin cartographers entered Dagestan (the translation from Turkic – the country of mountains) into the structure of the Russian Federation, so that the inhabitants of the former territory of Azerbaijan were extremely glad and still express their gratitude to Russia, by shooting and with explosions of houses in Buinaksk, and in certain cases the pleasure so overflows their souls that, not restraining their emotions, they wear themselves out, involving instant transport to paradise of the people around, who naturally voluntarily join the heartfelt festivity, like the voluntary will of the people to 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 will remember forever: «The Russians came and released us from meat and butter».

    So the Lithuanians expressed their personal gratitude to "Big Brother" for his concern about the health of the Lithuanian people. Really, what can be better than a diet to increase life expectancy!
    It must be said that the Azerbaijani people (it is more correct to call them Azerbayjani Turkic peoples, as it defines the people in Southern Azerbaijan, and also, Turkish Turkic peoples, Iranians and Armenians), like no other, are in good favour with Russia. So, as a result of a series of "voluntary" accessions by the people of the Caucasus, Azerbaijan has been divided into Northern Azerbaijan as a part of the Russian Empire and Southern Azerbaijan in Iran, where more than twice the number of Azerbaijanis live than in its northern part. Since ancient times, apparently in gratitude for the Baku oil, and possibly from purely altruistic motives, the concern of Moscow for the Azerbaijani people has continued unbroken, and except for the territory of Dagestan (The Derbent khanate) the Azerbaijani people were also released from the territory of the Zangezursky area ,which was transferred to Armenia on the grounds that, owing to the forward-looking national policy of Moscow, founded on the principle of «friendship of the people» (read ethnic cleansing), the number of the fraternal Armenian people has grown considerably. So, the territory of the former Karabakh khanate of Azerbaijan, previously occupied by Armenians from Iran and Turkey, then received under the Soviet power the status of autonomous region, and in 1989-1991, after the complete deportation and destruction of the Azerbaijani population on this land which had been Azerbaijani from time immemorial, the homeland of national poets and musicians, Moscow actually transferred to Armenia all Karabakh with adjacent areas which were also released from the Azerbaijani population. As a result of the Karabakh conflict Azerbaijan lost another 20 percent of its territory.
    Ever since Russians first arrived in the Caucasus Russia pursued a policy of ethnically forcing out the Turkic population from the territories adjacent to Turkey and Iran, and of populating these lands with Armenians, encouraging their migration from neighboring countries. These mean actions concerning the Azerbaijani people reflect the real picture of coincidence at any moment of the strategic objectives of Moscow and the Armenian Nazis' dream of Great Armenia, from sea to sea. Yes, yes, exactly so, «from sea to sea» and not otherwise, for this may explain the slaughter of 1918 arranged with Armenians in Baku and other cities of Azerbaijan. Having secretly supplied the numerous Armenian diaspora with weapons, the Dashnaki arranged a crafty mutiny unprecedented in cruelty. After many years living side by side with Azerbaijanis, Armenians suddenly began to rush into houses and literally cut down the unarmed population of the city, sparing neither children, nor women. Inhabitants sought safety in flight, there was no possibility of organizing resistance to the excesses committed by armed murderers. The pursuing bandits directed the refugees to suburban settlements.

    I will allow myserlf a short lyrical digression.
    In our house there was a big ancient photograph of Grandfather; as a small child, I noticed that on the portrait there was a closed-up hole on his chest. When asked how it got there, father answered curtly «From a sabre». He hated conversations on military subjects, although he had lived all through the war, from beginning to end, in charge of an anti-aircraft battery.
    At a more mature age I learned more details from mother: In Balakhan they heard terrible news about the cruelty of the Armenians, and the inhabitants, taking their children and food, hastily left the settlement at night. There was no particular place to run. Baku and its neighboring villages are located on a peninsula. Their flight was cut short by the desert coast of the Caspian Sea. Fortunately, the Armenians didn't think of moving to the sea. A few days later, when Grandfather's family returned, in the house they found broken dishes and the portrait, punctured by a sabre, a colourful hint of what awaited them, as an Armenian family in the house.
    In Azerbaijan the Armenians applied the same tactics of ethnic cleansing of the territory under the proposed Armenian state, as in Turkey in 1915, the only difference being that in Turkey this action was carried out with the help of the imperial authorities, and in Azerbaijan with the assistance of the communists. The Armenian military leader of that time Andronnik cabled to the Kremlin about a glorious victory over the enemy. However the pleasure was short-lived. Turkey, despite a desperate situation on the fronts, directed a military rescue group to Baku. (Turks and Azerbaijanis are one people, by analogy with Germans and Austrians). Having broken through the defence approaches to the city organized by Dashnakis, the Turks entered the city, which was probably intended to enrich Great Armenia with oil.
     
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    The Dashnakis hoped that Russian would help them to create Great Armenia, but they grossly miscalculated. Having set up the Armenian Socialist Republic (one of the khanates of Azerbaijan), on the place of the Erevan khanate, the Kremlin communists at the same time buried any hope of the Armenian Nazis of independence, which was echoed many years later in a series of acts of terrorism carried out by an even stronger Dashnaki party, in the form of explosions in the Moscow subway and electric trains.
    However, the main thing which the Dashnaki ideologists, planning to construct the chimerical state, in my opinion, didn't take into account is the mentality of the Armenian people.
    Here it is pertinent to point out a feature in the mentality of the Armenian people, namely the aspiration to become an economically developed region, as a rule cities, creating there centres of compact accommodation. For example, a very significant fact, - at the moment of the conquest of Georgia by the Russians, there were more Armenians living in Tbilisi than Georgians. In Baku a whole district of the city was called Armenikend, with an exclusively Armenian population. By the way, in the Soviet period the number of Armenians making up the population of Baku surpassed the number of Armenians living in all Karabakh. It could not be otherwise, but only the difference in mentality can explain the fact that the Azerbaijani refugees from Armenia and the occupied territories fled to Azerbaijan whilst the Armenian refugees appeared anywhere, but in Armenia. Those few who still stayed in the homeland, soon left it with the sole thought of never returning. But after the disintegration of the USSR when it would seem there was no special reason not to return to a free and much-missed Armenia, they appeared in considerable numbers in the rich American state of California.

    Whether they were following in the footsteps of the Jews who, having created the Armenian lobby in the strongest world power, to solve their problems at the expense of the American taxpayers, and even the lives of American soldiers for the implementation of Dashnaki ideology for the creation of Great Armenia. The reason for the lack of patriotism can be looked for in the fact that today's Armenia is an artificial formation of Armenians moved from Turkey, Iran and Lebanon, as a result of the embodiment of the ideologies of the extremely nationalist 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 to explain that, of all the Soviet republics, only Armenia has become more and more mononational and this with the fact that the number of the Armenian population in Armenia itself has not increased, because of the continuous migration of Armenians to the central cities of Russia, and also to resorts on the Black Sea coast and North Caucasus. Not only the Azerbaijani population, but even the Russians, whose number has constantly grown in all other Soviet republics, have been forced out, didn't in fact stay in Armenia after the disintegration of the USSR. By the way, the violent deportation of Azerbayjanis from Armenia has served as a stimulus to the Karabakh conflict. It was a well planned crafty action. (I will dare to remark that craftiness from Armenians has been noted more than once in history). In its first stage in Azerbaijan there were refugees from Kafan. And this in the USSR, in peace time! Expelled from their houses by Armenian fighters, they went to Baku, intending to look for protection and justice from the authorities, who were in total indecision, for all inquiries by the responsible parties from Baku were unanswered. Moscow maintained a persistent silence. The Secretary General M. Gorbachev didn't take any actions to stop the lawlessness in Armenia. What was the reason for such strange behaviour by a man in whose hands is concentrated total power in the conditions of such a totalitarian state as the Soviet Union? You cannot help remembering the time of Gorbachev's visit to France, his meeting with representatives of the Armenian diaspora. You can only guess how they manged to communicate with Gorbachev. The only thing that was undertaken by the cowardly republican power, instead of protesting strongly agains the scandalous arbitrariness of the Armenian nationalists, was not to allow Kafansky refugees into Baku. Then Sumgait would not let them in. Time passed, and homeless refugees were left alone, facing problems in an artificially created information vacuum. The authorities didn't even set up a camp for them. There were also agents provocateurs, as it became clear subsequently, two Armenians who, having used an artificially created and dangerous situation, pushed the despairing people to a massacre of the Sumgait Armenians. It was so carefully planned, the main thing being that, at the very same time that it was documented, and surprisingly quickly, a film appeared abroad about the vandalism of Azerbaijanis who had crossed the border, which for the USSR was already a nonsense. Note that at that time the ordinary population had no video cameras, and, what is more, no professional movie cameras. It is difficult to imagine that all this suddenly appeared at the right time and place. But it is even more difficult to imagine that such a thing could occur in such a totalitarian 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 begun open hostilities against Azerbaijan.
     
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    The planned tragedy of Sumgait legitimised the expulsion of Azerbaijanianis from Armenia, and then the capture of Karabakh. As I have said, Moscow kept silent about the lawlessness of the Armenian authorities, apparently having hidden behind the Kremlin wall, the omnipotent secretary general was afraid to restore order in the 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 refugees appeared in the USSR, direct evidence of the fact that Soviet power in the territory of the Armenian Socialist Republic had ceased to exist. However, when the corresponding expulsion of Armenians from Baku began, Gorbachev immediately sent armies to restore the Soviet power in Azerbaijan, and this on the basis that in Armenia there was no Soviet power, and had not been any. Overall, the breakup of the Soviet empire can be considered the beginning of the Karabakh conflict.
    The Communists in fact continued the tsarist policy of resettling the Armenians among the Muslim Turkic population of Azerbaijan from here, and deliberately creating the Karabakh problem, thanks to which today Russia has the possibility of influencing a political situation strategically important for the Caucasian region. Russia, whose economy is traditionally supported by the sale of energy resources, will do everything in its power to prevent thecompetition represented by Azerbaijan on the European market. By the way, the unfortunate intervention of Russia in Georgia was intended to block the construction of the Baku-Ceyhan oil pipeline.

    Armenia, armed with Russia, is only waiting for a green light from the Kremlin to begin hostilities for further annexation of lands neighbouring Azerbaijan and Georgia under Great Armenia, - the express purpose of the revived extremely nationalist party of Dashnaktsutyun, the guilty party in the tragedy of Turkish Armenians in 1915, when Dashnaks, with Russia's help, undertook ethnic destruction of Turkic peoples in order to construct an Armenian state on the free territory. At a time 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 facilitate the advance of Russian forces deep into Turkish territory. However, the cruelty lnflicted by the Dashnaks caused a spontaneous mass resistance, resulting in an enormous number of victims amongst the Armenians. It is absolutely groundless to accuse Turkey of genocide, because, unlike the Jewish one in Germany, no genocide was planned by the Turkish authorities, nor carried out by the army, and what occurred was a corresponding national punishment, on destruction of the civilian population organised by Armenian Dashnaks. During the whole of the Ottoman Empire Armenians lived safely among the Muslim population and no oppression was seen either on national, or on religious soil. Having failed in Turkey, the Dashnaks continued their plan and undertook a similar sly action in 1918 in Azerbaijan, which also failed. But the main thing was that the Dashnaks, by using their own kind of “Armenian Gambit” (to use chess terminology) to achieve their political goals each time exposed the Armenian people, as occurred in Turkey in 1915, in Baku in 1918 and in Sumgait in 1988.

    The attention by "Big Brother" affected not only the reduction of the territory of Azerbaijan, but also its culture: the Azerbaijani people, of course voluntarily, by special order of Moscow, were twice deprived of the alphabet, so that it suddenly became illiterate; first Latin scriptwas brought in, and then they quickly rethought and transferred to the Russian alphabet. By the way, non-compliance with this decree was equivalently anti-Soviet activity and was severely punished.

    It was just as if Russians were obliged to use the Japanese alphabet, and after, let's say, five years, Chinese. It would be interesting to see how Pushkin's verses would look in Chinese hieroglyphs! And who would read Pushkin and Dostoevsky as a result of the sudden universal illiteracy of the Russian population. And yet this is just what happened in Azerbaijan. At best, if someone heard that there were such poets Nizami, Hagani, there would be no real possibility of reading them. In schools, instead of national literature, the study of the works of exclusively Russian writers and poets was imposed and, of not to mention of course that masterpiece of Soviet literature «How the steel was tempered». Frankly speaking, the name of the author of this great work has for some reason been largely forgotten.

    Having found independence, Northern Azerbaijan adopted a democratic constitution, however the national mentality and corruption do not allow complete use of its benefits, and democracy( which is a self-evident gift, and of which the people had no experience,) suddenly collapsed. Clearly, time is required, but in the meantime the country is developing economically, and Baku is taking the shape of a modern megalopolis, in which the beauty of ancient architecture and daring architectural projects of skyscrapers are combined, yet dangerously at present there are the aggressive intentions of the Armenian Dashnaks with their chimerical dream of building «Armenia from sea to sea».

    Today Azerbaijan is a place where the strategic and economic interests of Putin's Russia and the Teheran obscurantists who want to prevent, firstly, energy resources from the countries of the Caspian Basin getting on to the world market, and secondly, the union Northern and Southern Azerbaijan; and the smouldering Karabakh conflict is a good fuse to start hostilities which have every chance of developing into large-scale regional war, God forbid, in the Third World.
     
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    AJF and Associates Inc. released results of an exit poll, conducted among voters in the presidential election in Azerbaijan. According to the results, current President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, candidate of the ruling New Azerbaijan party wins with 82.7 percent of votes.

    Well, good result even for country from post-Soviet space:) Btw Alik, the average statistical Azerbaijanis are fed up with Aliev dynasty or still like this family?
     
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    Hi Alik
    Welcome to the forum..
    It is very nice to see an Azerbaijani in this forum....
    Greetings from Türkiye....
     
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    I wonder what they say in Turkey to Azerbaijan and its people?
     
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    In Turkey people say ''Azeri'' which refers to Azerbaijani People and ''Azerbaycan'' which refers to country...

    But from my point of view ''Azeri'' is a wrong name.It is because ''Azerbaijan'' is geography name and you cant name people by geopgraphwhere they live ; therefore from my point of view we must say Azerbaijani Turk(Azerbaycan Türkü ,Azerbaycanlı Türk)
    For example the name of geography where we live is Anatolia(Anadolu) ıt is geography name and we are Turks...
    Saying Azeri is soomething like saying Anatoli or something like that...
    But while we are saying Azeri to Azerbaijani people we are aware of thet We both belong to the same ethnicity ıts(Azeri) just a name but not ethnicity....
     
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    Dear Alik
    Do you live in Bakü?
    Can you understand Anatolian Turkish?
    In Turkey when I listen Azerbaijani TV programs I can understand them but you speak so fast and sometimes you use some words which we are not using for last decades....30 years earlier ıt was easier to understand each other....
     
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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-Turkism
     
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    There is no such ethnic Azeris . This term entered Russian Communists . Until 1917 the Russian people called residing in Azerbaijan called Caucasian Tatars , because the language was very similar to the language of the Tatars , who live on the river Volga and the Urals. I remember my grandmother called the language in which she spoke Turkic . Language is developing very fast and when there is no communication between groups of people of one language there are some differences. But now that the Russian invaders withdrew from Azerbaijan, I think the Turks should communicate more and make the alliance between the Turkic countries , like the European Union in the initial stage , and then did make one country because , unlike the European Union, where different peoples together for Turks one common language - Turkic .
     
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    I agree with you that:Turkey and Azerbaijan and other Turkic States should develop much more strong relationship and we should cooperate much more than we are doing at the moment....

    I also agree with you that Azeri is not an ethnicity...
     
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    Tomorrow May 28 Azerbaijan marks an important historical date of 100 years since the day of the proclamation of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, although independence was lost two years later, after Moscow sent an army under the command of Kirov, whose monument with a symbolically extended hand towered over Baku until it was were demolished in 1991. Since then, newly independent Azerbaijan has made significant progress, despite the constant military provocations of Armenia, behind which Russia stands.
     

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