Yesterday marked the 34th anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Did its collapse help or hurt long-term peace between Armenians and Azerbaijanis?
What do you think from the Azerbaijani perspective?
Soviet Union will probably be the last time Armenians and Azeris lived together in peace for the foreseeable future, so it is a bit lamentable. However, said peace was not true reconciliation and was merely making nationalists from both sides shut up. The core grievances between the two ethnicities were never addressed, and as soon as Moscow’s iron fist loosened on the Caucasus, all hell broke loose. We should keep the memory of AZ-AM coexistence in the USSR alive, because there is a world where Azeris and Armenians aren’t mortal enemies.
JesusxPopexGod on
Well it collapsed and war broke out what kind of stupid question is this? Of course it hurt the peace
Difficult-Routine929 on
When the Soviet Union collapsed, all the nations turned against each other, just as Yugoslavia did when it disintegrated. These states tried to forcibly unite countless nations, but when they collapsed, that sick nationalist ideology exploded, like a volcano that had been waiting to erupt for a long time, and its effects are still being felt.
ReasonableEffort8988 on
If you can’t rule them, divide them.
Under the Soviet Union, they didn’t want trouble, so Armenia and Azerbaijan lived peacefully because they were ruled directly.
After the collapse, Russia could no longer rule them. To keep control and influence, it benefits from Armenia and Azerbaijan being in conflict with each other, selling weapons and playing both sides.
This is a well-known strategy: divide to control when direct rule is no longer possible.
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Soviet Union will probably be the last time Armenians and Azeris lived together in peace for the foreseeable future, so it is a bit lamentable. However, said peace was not true reconciliation and was merely making nationalists from both sides shut up. The core grievances between the two ethnicities were never addressed, and as soon as Moscow’s iron fist loosened on the Caucasus, all hell broke loose. We should keep the memory of AZ-AM coexistence in the USSR alive, because there is a world where Azeris and Armenians aren’t mortal enemies.
Well it collapsed and war broke out what kind of stupid question is this? Of course it hurt the peace
When the Soviet Union collapsed, all the nations turned against each other, just as Yugoslavia did when it disintegrated. These states tried to forcibly unite countless nations, but when they collapsed, that sick nationalist ideology exploded, like a volcano that had been waiting to erupt for a long time, and its effects are still being felt.
If you can’t rule them, divide them.
Under the Soviet Union, they didn’t want trouble, so Armenia and Azerbaijan lived peacefully because they were ruled directly.
After the collapse, Russia could no longer rule them. To keep control and influence, it benefits from Armenia and Azerbaijan being in conflict with each other, selling weapons and playing both sides.
This is a well-known strategy: divide to control when direct rule is no longer possible.