NIKITA SHANGIN: “WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW WITH AZERBAIJANIS IS A TERRIBLE CHAUVINIST DISEASE, THIS IS TREATED BY ONLY ONE – TOTAL MILITARY-POLITICAL DESTRUCTION, AS IT HAPPENED WITH FASCISM GERMANY.
di Nikita Shangin
“Armenia gave Russia a lot of outstanding statesmen, military men, scientists. Loris Melikov alone is worth something, and Lazarev, and Aivazovsky, and Marshal Bagramyan, Admiral Isakov, Marshal Khudyakov, Marshal Babadzhanyan, the father of the hydrogen bomb Shchelkin K.I. (Kirakos Oganesovich Metaksyan)… The main thing that I noticed is the same mythology, the same statement from the Azerbaijani side – we have always been here, this is our land, that the Armenians are newcomers, that this is not Armenian architecture, but Albanian․ The Armenians were resettled here by the Russians. They cite as evidence of some medieval Azerbaijani poets. I could not find a single poet from the list presented in encyclopedias. “The great Azerbaijani poet of the 13th or 15th century” is what they call them. I would like to say: brothers, what are you talking about, in the 13th century there was no such state as Azerbaijan! Such a state was artificially created in 1918 by the Turks on a territory that had nothing to do with Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan was in the northwestern part of the province of Iran, beyond the Araks River. The Azerbaijani language developed among the tribes of the Caucasian Turks only in the 19th century.
In the encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron there is no such thing as “Azerbaijani language” at all, there is no such thing in the British encyclopedia of the 19th century. There are no such concepts as “Azerbaijani language”, “Azerbaijani”. There is only “Azerbaijan”, like an Iranian province. Everything. And there is an “Azerbaijani” as a native of this province. There is no Azerbaijan on ancient maps. Regarding the ethnic group, which today is called “Azerbaijanis”, this is a turkic-speaking ethnic group, whose ancestors appeared in Transcaucasia only in the 11th century. Together with the Seljuk invasion. It was they who swept the Ani kingdom off the face of the earth, during which Armenia flourished and developed in the 12nd century. The Armenians were very unlucky with where the God settled them. At such a crossroads through which all the invasions that were in the history of civilization rolled. As soon as some kind of statehood had time to take shape, as the next wave of invasion swept away everything. Moreover, the Armenians always took the first blow, suffered the greatest losses, protectingEurope.
I believe in the strength of the spirit of the Armenian people, in any difficult situation they got out of the situation. I am not a prophet, but I believe in the victory of the Armenian people. ut it won’t be soon, there will be big losses… In this case, I perceive what is happening in the context of history. The current events remind me very much of September 1939. What is happening with Armenia is very similar to what happened in Poland in September 1939. The same territorial issue, the same absolute inequality of forces – on the one hand, the aggression of not even one, but two countries, plus the participation of international terrorist organizations. Three powerful forces against small 3 million Armenia. And the same betrayal of the allies. I just don’t understand what’s going on. Declared policy equals remoteness, it seems to me an attempt to sit on two moving chairs.
I hear every day that we have excellent relations with Azerbaijan. What are they expressed in? We have strong trade ties with Azerbaijan, we have 2 million Azerbaijanis living in Russia. We have a large number of oligarchs of Azerbaijani origin. But this is not a friendly relationship. What about the Baku-Ceyhan gas pipeline?
How friendly to the vital interests of Russia is this circumstance? From the point of view of geopolitical interests, Azerbaijan today represents a puppet of Turkey. And with all the sweetness of his president, this state of affairs is very dangerous for our country. I do not share the opinion of some political scientists about their respect for Ilham Aliyev. And how can I relate to a man who makes a dirty vile murderer a national hero? The man who hacked to death a sleeping Armenian officer with an ax at the NATO summit in Budapest and was convicted was extradited to Azerbaijan, where he was declared a national hero by President Aliyev).
But it is truly terrible that this is perceived with enthusiasm by the Azerbaijani society. This is a symptom of his deepest disease. Mythology is hammered into the heads of Azerbaijanis, in which they sincerely believe. Azerbaijanis are a young nation. And painfully artificial inventing ancient history for oneself, appropriating everything that was on this territory before this people appeared and formed, before they created statehood, this is a sad manifestation of an inferiority complex, and an aggressive one at that. But at the same time, this people had a good cultural start. In the 20th century there was a stunning Kara-Karayev, there was a brilliant Tahir Salakhov.
That is, Azerbaijanis are a people that can give birth to great artists. Well, so generate, create, create your own culture. Why take someone else’s? Who is chasing you? What is happening now with Azerbaijanis is a terrible chauvinistic disease that is progressing, throwing the people back to the Middle Ages, forcing them to make a vile murderer a national hero. This is a symptom of the deepest moral, spiritual crisis, which, like a cancerous tumor, corrodes society. I’m afraid that this is not treated by humanitarian methods.
History says that, unfortunately, there is only one cure for this – a total military-political defeat, as happened with Nazi Germany. But for this, Azerbaijan, with its overlord Turkey, must do something that will put the world on the brink of a civilizational catastrophe. Don’t give us this Lord. But I am afraid that these states are stubbornly moving in this direction.
As for Armenia and Russia.
I am convinced that in the end Armenia will endure. But if Armenia loses Karabakh, then Russia will lose Armenia. In the 20th century, Armenia was betrayed twice by the Russian Bolsheviks. The first time was in 1918, when they concluded the Brest Peace and left her face to face with the Turkish army, which was heading towards the “final solution of the Armenian issue.” And the second – in 1921, when they made friends with Ataturk and tore apart Armenia for a couple, which had just been restored to its historical limits by the Sevres agreements, as a result of the 1st World War. As a result, Armenia lost most of its historical territories: including Western Armenia, Cilician Armenia, most of eastern Armenia, including the Kars region, Ardagan region, Surmalu province
Nikita Shangin <spravedlivostinrossia@mail.ru>
