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SUMGAIT-88. PART 1: DREAM OF HEAVEN BRINGING HELL
Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
Feb 25 2014
25 February 2014 - 11:26am
Azerbaijan and Armenia associate February of modern history with
the tragic events of Sumgait and Khojaly. As time goes, there are
fewer and fewer witnesses of the events left, but the question why
the tragedy happened remains. Vestnik Kavkaza experts will describe
details of the horrifying events of February 1988 this week.
In the 1980s, the USSR made its most flagrant civilizational mistake:
it was tempted with promises of heaven on earth. The Russian Social
Democratic Labour Party was charmed with the idea of heavenly
communism, only to be later replaced with another one after decades
of bloodshed and hard work.
Perestroika, collapse of the USSR and the bloody events depicted in
the article could have been avoided if it were not for the idea of
a capitalist heaven in the hearts of people. The state ideology of
the early 1980s was failing to satisfy needs of its citizens. The
Cold War started after WWII could only end with either socialism or
capitalism winning.
Mikhail Gorbachev started his reign on March 11, 1985, believing in
the American Dream. Unlike his predecessors, he was a gullible and
naïve leader who thought that scrapping totalitarian ideology for
the sake of European democratic values would end hostilities and make
the USSR part of the world society.
The West had no intentions to make friends, it was only worried about
own security which could only be strengthened by weakening or better
destroying the Soviet Union. The divide and rule principle was taken as
the basis and served under the cover of "heavenly" ideals of Western
democracy. The ethnic problem was the perfect tool for a coup in the
multiethnic Soviet Union where all nationalities were equal.
Nationalism as a mass movement cannot be born by its own, it is a
political instrument, sort of a scalpel, that cuts the body of the
country into any number of pieces. Organized and idea-firm nationalists
convinced in their superiority are few in numbers, but they are always
under surveillance of special services and cannot do harm under a
strong government. However, they become the blade of the scalpel in
the hands of players of local and global politics.
The scalpel hit Sumgait on February 27-29, 1998.
http://vestnikkavkaza.net/news/politics/51786.html
Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
Feb 25 2014
25 February 2014 - 11:26am
Azerbaijan and Armenia associate February of modern history with
the tragic events of Sumgait and Khojaly. As time goes, there are
fewer and fewer witnesses of the events left, but the question why
the tragedy happened remains. Vestnik Kavkaza experts will describe
details of the horrifying events of February 1988 this week.
In the 1980s, the USSR made its most flagrant civilizational mistake:
it was tempted with promises of heaven on earth. The Russian Social
Democratic Labour Party was charmed with the idea of heavenly
communism, only to be later replaced with another one after decades
of bloodshed and hard work.
Perestroika, collapse of the USSR and the bloody events depicted in
the article could have been avoided if it were not for the idea of
a capitalist heaven in the hearts of people. The state ideology of
the early 1980s was failing to satisfy needs of its citizens. The
Cold War started after WWII could only end with either socialism or
capitalism winning.
Mikhail Gorbachev started his reign on March 11, 1985, believing in
the American Dream. Unlike his predecessors, he was a gullible and
naïve leader who thought that scrapping totalitarian ideology for
the sake of European democratic values would end hostilities and make
the USSR part of the world society.
The West had no intentions to make friends, it was only worried about
own security which could only be strengthened by weakening or better
destroying the Soviet Union. The divide and rule principle was taken as
the basis and served under the cover of "heavenly" ideals of Western
democracy. The ethnic problem was the perfect tool for a coup in the
multiethnic Soviet Union where all nationalities were equal.
Nationalism as a mass movement cannot be born by its own, it is a
political instrument, sort of a scalpel, that cuts the body of the
country into any number of pieces. Organized and idea-firm nationalists
convinced in their superiority are few in numbers, but they are always
under surveillance of special services and cannot do harm under a
strong government. However, they become the blade of the scalpel in
the hands of players of local and global politics.
The scalpel hit Sumgait on February 27-29, 1998.
http://vestnikkavkaza.net/news/politics/51786.html