Iβm currently reading the biography of Abdullah Azzam which focuses on his efforts to recruit Arabs to join the fight against the Soviets in Afghanistan. One of the passages in the book talks about the use of magazines printed in different languages to make people aware of the plight of the Afghan people. One of the languages it mentions is Russian. This made me curious about what Muslims in Chechnya or Dagestan may have thought about the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Thank you in advance.
The Artsakh / Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is no longer merely a territorial dispute. It's no longer self-determination vs territorial integrity. The struggle for Nagorno-Karabakh is the cornerstone, the founding idea of the modern state identities of Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Achieving compromise is impossible. Some of you on this sub say giving back some part of the occupied regions will be enough. It is not. Never will be at least in the next 50-100 years.
Unfortunately we can't conduct a survey to understand what part of the Azeri population would agree to this idea. Firstly because it's the first and only country in world to ban people based on ethnicity, in this case ethnic Armenians. And also because it's a full-fledged authoritarian state where nobody, not even Azeri sociologists themselves can conduct honest surveys without government tinkering.
But let's say we do a smaller imitation of a survey here on reddit. If you ask on r/azerbaijan the following:
>Would you agree to Nagorno-Karabakh's official independence that would include Karvajar and Lachin, in exchange for getting back 5 occupied regions?
What do you think? What percent of people would say yes? 10%? 5%? 1%? Nobody at all? Yeah.
And reddit is supposed to be a representation of the more liberal part of Azeri society. People here can speak good English, can lead a discussion on a decent level, usually do not descend down to YouTube level hate speech, are exposed to the wider world in many ways that ordinary Azeris aren't. And even these people would not "no" to above-written question. Imagine what the answer of the general population would be. Probably 99%+ would say "no, never".
So I don't understand your ideas for compromise and peace here on r/armenia. Compromise with who? With people that are willing 0 compromise? And it's not even just the government. The total majority of the population also thinks like that. Compromise doesn't work that way. It needs to go both ways.
Some of you may say it's government influence. Well, all opposition parties are just as determined on this issue.
This is a pure power struggle for supremacy between 2 nation-states. We have won the war despite all odds. The status quo is in our favor. Time is ticking in our favor. Armenians in Artsakh, Armenia and the Diaspora are winning this struggle and there's no reason we should back off from it.
Arstakh is Armenian. Artsakh is ours. Instead of drawing imaginary maps of compromise that nobody is ever gonn
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_rug
https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pazyryk_rug the oldest
The oldest surviving knotted carpet is the Pazyryk rug, excavated miraculously in the frozen tombs of Siberia, dated from the 5th to the 3rd century B.C., now in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. This square tufted carpet, almost perfectly intact, is considered by many experts to be of specifically Armenian, origin. The eminent authority of ancient carpets, Ulrich Schurmann, says of it:
βFrom all the evidence available I am convinced that the Pazyryk rug was a funeral accessory and most likely a masterpiece of Armenian workmanshipβ.
