The relations between Armenia and Baku, or Armenian-Azerbaijani in general, are rightfully characterized as hostile, and most often the basis for this is the processes that began in the late 1980s, the struggle for self-determination of Artsakh, the Artsakh wars. And according to that, a wrong impression is created that these relations turned into a conflict very quickly and Armenians and Azerbaijanis from the Soviet “brotherly peoples” suddenly turned into arch-enemies. We consider it important to state and emphasize that Armenian-Azerbaijani relations had at least two important grounds and reasons for turning from passive negative to active negative, to hostile. First, the processes taking place in this region at the beginning of the 20th century, the open Turkish-Azerbaijani plans, on the one hand, were directly against the interests and existence of the state of Armenia, on the other hand, they remained incompletely implemented. And secondly, throughout the existence of the USSR, both the leadership of Soviet Baku and various layers of society continued to take systematic steps to implement their plans.

The relations between Armenia and Baku, or Armenian-Azerbaijani in general, are rightfully characterized as hostile, and most often the basis for this is the processes that began in the late 1980s, the struggle for self-determination of Artsakh, the Artsakh wars. And according to that, a wrong impression is created that these relations turned into a conflict very quickly and Armenians and Azerbaijanis from the Soviet “brotherly peoples” suddenly turned into arch-enemies. We consider it important to state and emphasize that Armenian-Azerbaijani relations had at least two important grounds and reasons for turning from passive negative to active negative, to hostile. First, the processes taking place in this region at the beginning of the 20th century, the open Turkish-Azerbaijani plans, on the one hand, were directly against the interests and existence of the state of Armenia, on the other hand, they remained incompletely implemented. And secondly, throughout the existence of the USSR, both the leadership of Soviet Azerbaijan and various layers of society continued to take systematic steps to implement their plans, which were mainly related to the following goals and problems:

– The final occupation of Nakhichevan, Artsakh through depopulation, various persecutions of native Armenians,

– Creation of a land connection with Nakhichevan via Meghri, which had a more far-reaching pan-Turkist goal and was a clearly Turkish-Azerbaijani plan that was not realized in the early 1920s.

– Seizing different territories from Soviet Armenia and denying and destroying evidence of Armenian belonging to some territories that are important to them.

These and various related problems were on the open or hidden agenda of relations between Soviet Azerbaijan and Armenia and sometimes had exacerbations. Even today, the nature of Armenian-Azerbaijani relations is conditioned by the same problems, and the political style of Baku has become more racist and genocidal.