Ironically, Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin was in lockstep with British uber-colonialist Sir Percy Cox over Karabakh, both concluding that it was Azerbaijani territory.
Even the tight embrace of totalitarianism failed to place a damper on Armenians’ naked territorial ambitions, yet, from Joseph Stalin to Leonid Brezhnev, a succession of Communist leaders pushed back against faux-nationalism.
From brazen politicking in Moscow to operating a terror network and purchasing landmines from the Irish Republican Army, Yerevan spent the entire history of the Soviet Union seeking to usurp Baku’s territorial integrity without success.
