Operation Ring 1991- Continuing the Armenian Genocide

[Steph]

I remember reading that the various end-of-ww1 and post-ww1 conflicts between Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia were collectively known as the "wars between neighbouring peoples" in Soviet literature, and they were all blamed on imperialist plotting and on outdated nationalism that Soviet-man had done away with.
Though I may be corrected, I've a feeling that you are wrong in suggesting there was any substantial continued ethnic animosity between Armenians and Azeris from the post-ww2 period onwards. It was all, just like in Yugoslavia, the result of politicians inventing and encouraging the mob and whipping things up for their own interests and other countries making use of the situation for their own interests. A lot of people are pathetic creatures really, most never have an original thought in their entire lives and are incapable of seing when they are being used by others from their birth to their death.

Perhaps you're right. Although all the people of region would carry enough personal memories through Soviet times to enable flames to be lit easily enough. (?)