The “Ethnic-Cleansing” Mainstream Media REFUSES To Talk About

Even today, Josef Stalin is making people miserable. One hundred years ago, he was the "People's Commissar for Nationalities" in the Soviet Union – just one of the many positions he held on his way to the top of the Soviet hierarchy. Stalin did not have an easy job because the new "Union of Soviet Socialist Republics" was a group of smaller ethnic, cultural, and religious groups. Often, these groups were bitter historical enemies. Two were the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic and the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic. Despite what most people think, Stalin would listen to the opinion of others, especially in the early years of the USSR, and he listened to leaders from both Armenia and Azerbaijan – then he made his decision – and that was that – even that early in his career, no one was going to gainsay Stalin, at least not anyone from regions that could fit inside Russia 1000's of times over.

Azerbaijan and Armenia sit side by side towards the southern end of the Caucasus. The Armenians are among the oldest Christian groups in the world. Christianity had been spreading in Armenia since the 1st century AD, and in 301 AD, King Tiridates III declared Christianity the official state religion – the very first Christian kingdom on Earth.

The Azerbaijanis are Muslim. From 700 through the early 1300s, Islam gradually became the dominant religion in Azerbaijan.

Within what became the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic is the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, which measures about fifty miles from north to south and 30 from east to west. Before 2020, when the Armenians found themselves on the losing end of yet another war against the Azerbaijanis, between 85-90% of the people in the region were Armenians. The rest of the population were mainly Azeris living in the territory's north and east. About 1-3% of the population were Russians, Kurds, and ethnic Greeks.

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