War’s hidden dividends

Chapter Four
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The unravelling of a broken and bankrupt Soviet Union was seized upon by feckless politicians to reignite their campaign over Karabakh.

Simultaneously, Heydar Aliyev, the only Azerbaijani on the national stage capable of resisting an emerging conspiracy, suffered a mysterious heart attack.

As foreign officials warned of the cancer of an Armenian Mafia spreading across Europe and Yerevan’s involvement in ‘narcotics, money laundering, human trafficking and more…’, increasing evidence of vast mineral wealth in Karabakh served to fuel an increasingly violent faux-nationalist campaign.

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