Youth Opinion
A museum of mockery
Some places stay with you, even when you’ve never set foot in them. For me, Artsakh and Armenia are among those places. I grew up hearing stories of their mountains, their people and the lives forever changed by war and genocide. But it wasn’t until I learned about Azerbaijan’s War Trophies Park that I realized how the memory of Artsakh could be threatened — not just in the region itself, but across the world.
Imagine seeing your beloved family member, who fought in a war, immortali
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Honestly? How can peace be even possible with Azerbaijan, when the Aliyev regime continues to propagate Armenophobia from kindergarten onwards and in their 100% state-controlled media, and continues to regard Armenians as the “eternal enemy” and uses them as the “scapegoat” to whip up the Azeri population?
The grotesque wax figure caricatures of Armenian soldiers with hooked noses in that offensive Baku museum, are like a copy of grotesque anti-Semitic caricatures in Nazi Germany. The fascist mindset and indoctrination in the almost totalitarian dictatorship of Azerbaijan, is not really different from Nazi Germany.
And irony is what dictators like Aliyev don’t understand, because he has such a hooked nose and hooked noses are also quite common among Azeris.