Talk:Shushiball/@comment-24046080-20151125185231/@comment-24046080-20151125191559

Well I've been there, it functions as an independent country, and has a much more democratic government than Aliyev's dictatorship in Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan was a country fabricated in 1918 by Turkey's imperial ambitions, naming it after a region in Iran that it hopes to one day occupy. It didn't exist before then. Before then the "Azeris" were Caucasian Tatars. Artsakh has always been a traditionally Armenian territory, that was unfairly transferred to the Azerbaijani SSR only in the 1920's by idiotic communists who wanted to please Turkey and didn't think the borders mattered because they figured the Soviet Union would last forever.