Word: azerbaijan
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...harass us. Our appeals to the center were answered with formal notes, requests for calm and rationality. They should have said, 'Let's figure out a compromise between Armenians, Azerbaijanis and the federation.' If the union does not defend the people of Nagorno-Karabakh ((an Armenian enclave within Azerbaijan)) against violence, then the question arises, Can we be a part of the Soviet Union? The center must fulfill those functions that make it attractive to stay...
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...exit the Soviet Union is not necessary. But we should have independence in economic, cultural and political matters. Azerbaijan can feed itself, but it still owes the center 7 billion rubles. This dependence is a bad habit. Each region should take account of itself and develop a contractual relationship with Moscow. Now is the time to show we are an independent republic, and later our children will decide whether or not to leave the union altogether...
...There are several reasons. Moscow will not hesitate to use force in Azerbaijan and similar places. The Caucasus is strategically very important, and the Soviet leadership is less concerned about public reaction there. But the Baltics are so civilized, so connected to the West. All that makes military intervention there more difficult...
...force used by Soviet troops as they entered Baku? What would have been the American reaction had the Soviet Union sent troops in to a non-Muslim republic? If the brutality in Tiananmen Square was a "massacre," what should we call the far greater number of reported casualties in Azerbaijan? Anis Y. Sivani...