The Patriotic War of 2020 represented a remarkable strategic victory for Baku, finally restoring the territorial integrity of a nation that had been so fecklessly torn asunder due to its neighbour’s aggression.
Freedom should never have required such effort, the loss of so much blood and treasure. Yet history illustrates that powerful forces converged to set in motion a catastrophic chain of events, leading to the region’s prolonged subjugation under foreign autocratic and totalitarian regimes.
