As the world continues to plunge into the global uncertainty associated with the coronavirus, two small countries are loudly making themselves known on the world stage.
Azerbaijan chose the right time to regain Karabakh. Traveling around the world is greatly complicated by the coronavirus, there is a presidential election in the United States, and although everything is clear to who needs it there, in the eyes of the masses there is also uncertainty. The conflict continues in Syria, and Russia seems to be preoccupied with its own economic problems.
We will not greatly aggravate the prehistory of the conflict, but it is not difficult to understand the fact that if, during the Soviet era, the territory where mainly Armenians lived was controlled by the Azerbaijani AzSSR, sooner or later a conflict would arise, it is obvious. But the not very clever leadership of the then USSR probably did not understand anything, or simply pretended not to understand.
The countries themselves do not produce anything, Armenia lives at the expense of a huge diaspora in other countries (about 10 million people), and Azeibarjan extracts oil and spends mainly on weapons, which are bought mainly in Russia. Armenia, on the other hand, receives it from Russia for free and has a Russian military base on the territory of the country, where, however, all is not well either.
Skirmishes on the border between them happen regularly and sometimes do not even get into the media. After all, everyone understands everything and why it started and how it will end. In the sense that it began with nothing and ended with nothing. The main question is only what was the real reason why it all the same arose and why its reason is not even written in Wiki. Leaving the situation very mysterious.
Having seized the Caucasus in the 19th century, the Russian Empire began its(Caucas) industrial development only at the beginning of the 20th with the start of the use of Caspian oil in Baku, but it did not pay any attention to national conflicts.
After the revolution of 1917, the conflicts escalated sharply, and the communists who came to power successfully suppressed them. And they began as they declared to give each nation rights and territory justly.
The assembled commission of representatives of Armenia, an Azerbaijani, neutral to the conflict, Georgia, chaired by a well-known member of the Central Committee, Comrade Kirov, was inclined to transfer Karabakh to Armenia, since it is mainly Armenians are inhabited, but Stalin, who appeared for the negotiations, persuaded the commission to transfer Karabakh to Azerbaijan.
What was he guided by and why he did this you probably will not recognize never. After all, one of the features of Stalin is that he himself corrected his biography. And, apparently, the real reason is not for public.
S.S.