THE PROBLEMS OF ARMENIA AND AZERBAIJAN IN THE SOVIET UNION (BASED ON THE MEMOIRS OF THE SOVIET ARMENIAN STATESMEN)

Abstract

The Armenian-Azerbaijani relations in general are justly described as hostile, and most often it is considered that the processes that began in the late 1980s, the struggle for the self-determination of Artsakh as well as the Karabakh wars have formed the ground for this situation. Thus, the impression is created that these relations became antagonistic within a short period of time, and the Armenians and Azerbaijanis turned from the Soviet fraternal peoples to irreconcilable enemies. It is necessary to state and highlight that there were grounds and reasons, transforming the Armenian-Azerbaijani relations from passively negative to actively negative, hostile. These issues were best reflected in the memoirs of the statesmen, political and state leaders of Soviet Armenia of various years, and in this article on the basis of these sources we tried to shed light on the foundations of important layers of the Armenian-Azerbaijani