[billakay]

My wife is Armenian but was technically born in a historically Armenian territory of Soviet Azerbaijan. She was rescued from the Azeris in 1987/1988 along with her whole family (by the Soviet army). Regular Azeri citizens were going around and indiscriminately killing Armenians.

Lots of reasons and excuses, but it comes down to the fact that Lenin drew bad national lines on purpose (gave ethnic territories to the wrong country in order to have ready-made ethnic instability on-demand).

[Pearls Before Swine]

Lenin drew bad national lines on purpose (gave ethnic territories to the wrong country in order to have ready-made ethnic instability on-demand).

Diabolically clever, if true. (I didn't know that).

And, Churchill marked up the MidEast and produced similar results because he was in a hurry. I remember reading that after WW I, he carved up the Ottoman empire's territory on a map in an afternoon.