Неможам да ја најдам изјавата на Лев Рохлин ниту на Wikipedia на страната за војната во Нагорно Карабах. Мислам дека е таа изјава му ја имаат инсталирано намерно на генералот и ја тргнале набргу. Дел од пропагандата војна.
Не се ништо повеќе од непотврдени гласини. Русија и Ерменија и не беа во добри односи од причина што Ерменците во Нагорно Карабах се дигнаа против Советската влада 1988 и имаше серија инциденти. Работите се свртеа во меѓувреме, највеќе поради тоа што Азербејџан во своите редови имаше заколнати Руски непријатели (Авганистански Муџахедини и Чеченци).
Извадоци од книгата Black Garden : Armenia and Azerbaijan through Peace and War од Thomas De Waal.
"Azerbaijan’s attack was spearheaded by a phalanx of armored vehicles and tanks—by some accounts as many as 150 of them—which swept aside the poorly armed Armenian defenders. The use of heavy armor was a dramatic escalation in the conflict. In July, the Russian military journalist Pavel Felgenhauer wrote: “The partisan period of the conflict in Karabakh is over. A ‘normal’ war is beginning in which the role of the volunteer, defending his own village with a Kalashnikov in his hand from all conceivable enemies, will become smaller and smaller.”3 The heavy armor was Russian and the drivers were Russians. Azerbaijani commanders had moved quickly to take over the abundant Soviet military equipment in Azerbaijan and had cut deals with the 23rd Division of the 4th Army based in Ganje. Attempts were made to conceal the Russians’ presence, although it was obvious that Azerbaijan did not possess this number of trained tank drivers. But the Russian soldiers were sighted, not only by the Armenian villagers but by a Western diplomat and an American journalist.4 The attack was led by Russians and—extraordinary to say—it appears to have been stopped by Russians. In early July, the Karabakh Armenians faced being overwhelmed. According to one Armenian senior official, “This flood [of people] was moving toward Stepanakert like a herd and it was impossible to stop or to organize a defense. So I have to say that that flood was stopped by the Russians.” The official, who asked to be anonymous, said the Armenians persuaded the Russian military to intervene and help them turn the tide. Russian attack helicopters were sent in and carried out air strikes, which halted the offensive in its tracks. So elements of the Russian military ended up fighting one another. The Armenian official was insistent that this was the only occasion during the Karabakh war when Russians actively intervened to help the Armenian side (an assertion that most Azerbaijanis would strongly dispute).
After the Russian-Armenian counterthrust, “One or two days were needed to restore the front,” said the Armenian official."
"Leila Yunusova, who was now Azerbaijan’s deputy defense minister, says that by spending money in the right places, her republic was able to acquire a large part of this arsenal, giving it a military advantage. “So that [the Russians] would give us more than was in the agreement, we simply paid the commanders of the divisions. It was more difficult for the Armenians, because they didn’t have such a number of divisions there.” Everyone, from factory directors to housewives, took part in a great patriotic money-raising exercise to buy the weapons. “We all paid,” recalls Yunusova. “Every shop paid out some money, factories gave money. . . . Women brought in gold and diamonds for weapons. Everyone brought something.”10
Two prominent Azerbaijanis were able to get weapons from the Russians easily and on favorable terms. The defense minister, Rahim Gaziev, unusually for a Popular Front radical, was a strong supporter of Russia. After the experience of being imprisoned in Moscow after the January 1990 events, “Something turned in his head,” said his old acquaintance Hikmet Hajizade. “After [the Moscow prison] Lefortovo, he had the idea that you have to be friends with Russia, you have to bribe Russia.”11 Another Russophile Azerbaijani was Suret Husseinov, the sleek young director of a textile plant in the town of Yevlakh. Husseinov, who had no military background, set up his own armed brigade for the Karabakh front and was so successful that he was made a Hero of Azerbaijan and the president’s “special representative” for Karabakh."
