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...French Jacobins even redid the months of the calendar. But the communists carried the process to extremes, both to honor their heroes and to Russify the hard-to-pronounce appellations of the territories, like Georgia and Central Asia, that they added to their polyglot empire. Thus, the ancient Azerbaijani trading city of Gyandzha became Kirovabad to honor Sergei Kirov (he got a ballet company too), who headed the Communist Party in the republic in the 1920s. Nizhni Novgorod was renamed Gorky, for the chronicler of the working class, Maxim...
...economic and cultural Europe with institutional underpinnings -- the Council of Europe, the European Parliament, the European Court of Human Rights, the European Commission on Human Rights and other institutions -- to which grievances can be and have been brought. Even in the Soviet Union, putting aside tragedies like the Armenian-Azerbaijani strife, the recent rapprochement between Yeltsin and his eight republican leader-colleagues and Gorbachev, however temporary it may be, suggests that people have begun to recognize a more pluralistic political culture than had existed a year...
...hear the one about the half-Armenian woman in Bombay, with a weakness for baklava, who was introduced by her lover, the procuress, to a gigolo from the Seychelles known as Raper George? When her husband -- a 7-ft., entirely bald Azerbaijani all-in wrestler with gold-capped teeth -- heard about how his wife was spending her lazy afternoons, he hurried over to the small hotel where she was finding her pleasure...
...last January to quell bloody rioting in Azerbaijan, Igor Belyaev, a prominent Soviet commentator on Muslim affairs, warned that "Iran has threatened the Soviet Union with an Islamic conflagration." President Mikhail Gorbachev argued that "Islamic fundamentalism" was a major factor in the rioting against minority Armenians in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku...
What exactly is the difference between the desire of the Lithuanian people for greater independence and that of the Azerbaijani people? The way it has been played in the American media, Lithuanians protested in a "peaceful and organized way," while the Azerbaijanis, "passionate" and "irrational" Muslims as they are, protested violently...