Here some more,I wanna know what TOAD hase to say.I dont know as much as he does.
But anyway.We all know about armenian genicide,turks dont even deny it.
Largely a side effect of the early 20th century oil boom in the Caspian, the general concept of Azeri nationhood was maligned by factors developed during the industrial revolution in the region. Thus, the closest analogue of Azeri nationalistic attitudes toward the Armenians is anti-Semitism, with concomitant ideas of the "universal conspiracy" of purportedly better-educated and more prosperous Armenians against the young Azerbaijani nation.
These sentiments go back to pre-Soviet times. After the failed Russian revolution of 1905, the Czarist secret police, suspecting Jews and Armenians behind the liberal agitation in Russia, used Cossacks and Azeri bazaar mobs, respectively, for instigating acts of mass hostility against both groups. The result of those policies was the massacre of Armenians in Baku and Nagorno Karabakh by Azeris, which, in turn, coincided with anti-Jewish pogroms in Ukraine, Bessarabia and southern Russia.
The renowned French author of Azeri origin Um-el-Banin, who spent her childhood in Baku, depicts in her memoirs, “Caucasian Days,” the emotional atmosphere among the Azeri nationalist intelligentsia in the beginning of the 20th century. This is how she describes the popular games of Azeri children, who mimicked the behavior of their adult relatives at the time:
“During the holidays we played “Armenian massacres,” which was a game we preferred to all others. Drunk with our racist passions, we used to sacrifice Tamar (who was Armenian by mother) on the altar of our atavistic hatred. First we arbitrarily accused her in the killings of Muslims, and then we executed her immediately, several times in a row, to prolong the pleasure. After that we chopped limbs, tongue, head, and intestines from her body, which were subsequently thrown to the dogs, this for the expression of our scorn for the Armenian flesh ...”
