Those who grew up and matured in the 80-ies of XX century, in his youth was hard to imagine that soon the phrase "the Azeri tanks advancing on the Armenian position" or "Armenian aviation bombed assault attack on positions of Azerbaijani Army" willinto use and will not be perceived as excerpts from the bad joke.
Immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the announcement of national sovereignty in the former Soviet republics began to appear armed conflicts.Where there was peace for a long time, albeit thin, backed by force, started a real war.Nagorno-Karabakh was one of the first regions where animosity has reached its maximum intensity.
internal territorial disputes have been possible if, after coming to power of the Bolsheviks was the division of the territory of the former Russian Empire on the administrative and on a national basis.Nagorno-Karabakh with a predominantly Armenian population became part of Soviet Azerbaijan in 1923.The history of Nagorno-Karabakh has its origins in the articles of Lenin and Stalin on the national policy.
conflict has occurred during an armed confrontation between the Ottoman Empire and the Christian population, it was the beginning of ethnic hatred and recognized in many countries as genocide.Low culture of the Soviet leaders and workers of government for decades did not contribute to harmony, but on the contrary, deepening contradictions, so once weakened the central government, the war began.Nagorno-Karabakh began to rally in the midst of Gorbachev's perestroika, in 1987.The main requirement was to join the breakaway region to the Armenian SSR.
At the same time start the ethnic cleansing carried out by yet relatively bloodless.Azeris to create the conditions under which they "voluntarily" leave their homes and "repatriated".
When the economy is experiencing hard days, nationalism and mutual intolerance prepared fertile ground.Begin demonstrations, rallies and protests.Located still part of the USSR Armenian SSR announces annexation of Nagorno-Karabakh solution of its Supreme Council of June 17, 1988.When this "Anschluss" produce independent states, usually starts the war.Nagorno Karabakh becomes a subject of territorial disputes two union republics, which in itself seems absurd, for the time being.But in the vast country for bloodshed ...
Then there was a massacre in Sumgait events in Baku, during which mass killings began.The collapse of the Soviet Union caused a parade of sovereignties, the conflicting parties have become independent and hostile nations, each of which accused the neighbor's aggressive intentions.
In 1992, Azerbaijan and Armenia started the war.Nagorno-Karabakh until 1993, became the theater of active combat operations, as a result of which Baku lost control over a fifth of the territory allotted to it on a map of the USSR.The price of this result - more than a million refugees, tens of thousands of dead and wounded.The bloody battle ended with the signing in May 1994 of the Bishkek agreement.
For Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh's sovereignty is a matter of territorial integrity of states.For Armenia, this conflict is also of fundamental importance, the country protects its citizens living in seven districts of the region.Neither side wants to give in and give Nagorno-Karabakh.The war is not over.Effective truce.
