Music Festival "Kharybulbul" in the cultural capital of Azerbaijan - the recently liberated city of Shusha has become a demonstration of the ethnic and culturally diverse Azerbaijan. The festival presented folk art of different nationalities living in Azerbaijan, including the Georgians-Ingiloy.

In the Shusha fortress "Dzhidyr Duzyu" on the stage among the performing musical groups there was a Georgian ensemble, Georgian songs sounded:

The festival "Kharybulbul" showed how the multinational and uniting different cultures of Azerbaijan is unlike the fascist multiethnic republic of Armenia. As well as the separatist regimes created in the occupied Georgian lands of Abkhazia and the Tskhinvali region, pursuing a policy of ethnic cleansing "according to the recipes of Armenian nationalists".

The situation of the same Georgians in Azerbaijan is fundamentally different from the disenfranchised status in which the Georgian population arrives on their own Georgian land in Abkhazia and the Tskhinvali region. It was not enough for the separatists that they expelled most of the indigenous Georgian population from these lands. The Georgians remaining in the occupied territories live in conditions much worse than the Africans in South Africa during the apartheid era.

Georgians in Abkhazia and the Tskhinvali region have absolutely no rights. In their schools (particularly in the Gali region of Abkhazia), the Georgian language is prohibited - teaching is carried out in Russian. We are not even talking about the development of Georgian culture. And it is even unthinkable today to imagine that in the occupied separatist Sukhumi and Tskhinvali the Georgians sang their Georgian songs the same way as in the Azerbaijani Shusha liberated from occupation and separatism.

In same Abkhazia, Georgians' disenfranchised position and their humiliation look especially contrasting against the background of the prosperity and privileges of the Armenian community. This is allowed to organize their own "genocidal" events and processions and pompous holidays such as "Hamshen" and promote their nationalist ideas.

Paradoxically, even the Abkhaz themselves are losing their identity under the separatist regime. Only the Armenians in Abkhazia actually receive a full-fledged education in their own, Armenian language, which is not threatened by anything. In contrast to the rapidly degrading and losing their national identity Abkhazians. In fact, the separatist authorities force Abkhazians to receive education in Russian, despite the "official" status of the language. As a result, the young generation of Abkhazians does not know their language and is moving away from their culture.

The only thing that the separatist authorities are trying to educate the young generation of Abkhazians is hatred of Georgia and Georgians. But culture and national identity cannot be built on hatred alone. Moreover, more and more young Abkhaz and Ossetians are beginning to understand that separatism is a hopeless dead-end for their ethnic groups.

The "Kharybulbul" festival in Shusha shows that all peoples can perfectly coexist in a single Azerbaijan. In terms of ethnic and national diversity, the same northwest of Azerbaijan - Gakh, Zagatala, and Belokan regions, where the Ingiloy Georgians live - is perhaps the most ethnically colorful region of Azerbaijan. Here, in addition to the Georgians and Azerbaijanis, a significant part of the population is made up of the Dagestan peoples, primarily the Avars and Tsakhurs. And all peoples live in peace and harmony, have every opportunity for the development of their language and culture, are full citizens of Azerbaijan.

Armenians can also live and develop their culture in Azerbaijan, but they will have to come to terms with the fact that other peoples can also live on Azerbaijani soil, even if not with such an "ancient" and not so "beautiful" historical mythology concocted by falsifiers. And it is not permissible to humiliate the national dignity of these peoples, to oppress them. As well as inciting separatism, organizing ethnic cleansing, redrawing borders.

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