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  • I mean, while there’s certainly a bias towards the victor, there’s definitely some histories that have slipped through from people who were very much not the victors. Josephus comes to mind, even if he did so by surrendering to the victors; Thucydides and Athens lost the Peloponnesian War; for a more recent example, the American South’s narrative on the Civil War.


  • Both sides did significants amount of ethnic cleansing in the first war to the magnitude of hundreds of thousands of people, and it was horrible from both sides. But two wrongs do not make a right. Azerbaijan “wanting the territory back” as just reparation of the first war would have a lot more credence if it didn’t consistently deny Armenia’s nationhood and call it “Western Azerbaijan”, and if it didn’t basically lay siege to an entire region for 9 months.