“Why the hell did we invest so much money in Armenia?” Mardan shouts from the screen of the main patriotic channel. What’s the fuss about? What happened, Mardan? After the dark times of the barbarian invasions, Italian cities took a long time to recover, but after the Middle Ages, a Renaissance came here. The beautiful Caucasus, our golden Caucasus, was attacked by barbarian locusts from the Moscow Kremlin, plunging it into darkness for several centuries, spilling blood and destroying power. On 26 March 1988, immediately after Sumgait, Genrikh Borovik’s film crew arrived in Yerevan. A master of the genre, they are. The plot is classic, with a premise, development, climax, and denouement. It has hallmarks of academicism and objectivity. And from this propagandistic veneer of impartiality, the entire audience draws a firm conclusion: we are on the side of the Armenian people. A few subtle details, you see—in Azerbaijan, as in Yerevan, there was a rally, but they identified a provocateur who lied—the description is also impressive—and was skilled. He was identified and fled. But the provocation worked, so a group of Azerbaijanis went out to cause trouble. And the psychological hypnosis of propaganda begins to work.
Since then, the Azerbaijani side has aroused suspicion among the Moscow-centric average citizen. Moreover, they have accustomed us to the idea that Chechens are terrorists, Dudayev is a bandit, Zviad Gamsakhurdia is a Nazi, and in Ukraine, there are Ukrainian Nazis and Banderites. The doctrine of the mysterious Master Lukyanov meant that the USSR KGB and the USSR Ministry of Defence were sending specially trained armed specialists to countries intending to restore statehood, equipped to fight Banderites, Zviadists, Dudayevites, and Azerbaijani pogromists. In Georgia, this is Abkhazia and South Ossetia; in Moldova, this is Transnistria. In Ukraine, this is Crimea and Donbas; in Azerbaijan, this is Karabakh. The mechanisms that trigger long-standing, neglected interethnic conflicts are being set in motion: between Ossetians and Georgians, between Abkhazians and Georgians. And the entire press in Russia and the West is beginning to push narratives.
Azerbaijan with Karabakh, Georgia with South Ossetia and Abkhazia, Ukraine with Crimea and Donbas, Moldova with Transnistria—these are colonies of the Russian empire, countries occupied by Russia and subjected to the same standard method of subjugation. And with its propaganda network, which has presented the history of Russia’s aggression against these countries during the Gorbachev and Yeltsin eras as interethnic conflicts and civil wars. A hostile takeover by bandits presupposes a forcible punitive phase and legal cover. Everything must be clean on paper—that’s the motto of the bandit lawyers, who Vladimir Putin actually is. To legally formalise the annexation of Karabakh, it is necessary to take control of it by force, and then inscribe it in the constitution of the country to which it is being transferred—either to Russia or to Russia’s proxy, Armenia. While the security forces and lawyers are busy in their own fields, the apostles, the Herbalife sellers from the mysterious master’s pyramid scheme, are framing the corporate raid with a story employing the Rashomon effect. In this pyramid scheme, the Azerbaijani people are like Ukrainian Banderites, Georgian Nazis, Moldovan nationalists, and Chechen terrorists.
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