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The article doesn’t claim that the pogroms started in 1988 at all; it claims they aren’t ancient because they originated in the 20th century, and even softens t
by Someone 4y ago
The article doesn’t claim that the pogroms started in 1988 at all; it claims they aren’t ancient because they originated in the 20th century, and even softens that claim by saying
“To locate the origins of the current conflict in the 20th century is not to suggest that deeper histories do not matter.”
- impossiblefork 4y agoYes, but that is not what I wrote. What I attempted to convey was that they re-started 'started up again' in 1988 because they had survived the entire Soviet era, and are in fact very ancient. You can't just one day sit up and decide to hate Armenians or anybody else for that matter, as hard as the Azerbaijanis hate Armenians. This is why I have the remark that the Azeris are in fact a Turkish people-- i.e. the people which depopulated the entire region, where a tiny number of survivors happened to be able to hide away and eventually get a country.