Gazeta.Ru's interlocutors share completely
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2025 6:31 am
The horrific picture of life in the city is confirmed by the generalized words of the refugees. "They even stopped selling us bread in the shops. The sellers turned away from us. And no one helped us except the army," the author of the article quoted.
different memories. According to Nina, who lived in the city with her husband, a retired military man, the biggest shock for her was January 20.
"At night we heard shooting in our neighborhood. We woke up, hid around the corner by the window - bullets were whistling, nothing was clear. Both our people and the Azerbaijanis were shooting. Then we saw how
An armored personnel carrier pulled up, they called us and told us to leave immediately and not to take any things with us,” Nina says.
She ran out of the house in a dressing gown, hat and home owner database on bare feet. The couple was taken straight to the airport in an armored personnel carrier and taken to Russia on a transport plane.
According to her, they left together with other military families on the orders of the unit's command. But they did not encounter any harassment in Baku.
"I worked as the head of the HR department at a company, we had a lot of Russians, but everyone lived peacefully, the only thing was that we were told to urgently learn Azerbaijani so that by next year we could print documents in this language. At the same time, even the advertisements in the newspapers were written in Russian," she recalls.
In February, when Nina turned 55, she returned to the republic to obtain documents for her pension.
"At work they even asked: "How is this possible? Did we offend you?" They gave me 60 rubles, all my documents, and salary certificates. In the spring, I flew back to Baku to pick up the rest of my things. The apartment was completely intact, no one had broken into it, no one had touched anything. My colleague, an Azerbaijani, and her boyfriend helped load the things - carpets, crystal - and took us to the airport," she recalls.
different memories. According to Nina, who lived in the city with her husband, a retired military man, the biggest shock for her was January 20.
"At night we heard shooting in our neighborhood. We woke up, hid around the corner by the window - bullets were whistling, nothing was clear. Both our people and the Azerbaijanis were shooting. Then we saw how
An armored personnel carrier pulled up, they called us and told us to leave immediately and not to take any things with us,” Nina says.
She ran out of the house in a dressing gown, hat and home owner database on bare feet. The couple was taken straight to the airport in an armored personnel carrier and taken to Russia on a transport plane.
According to her, they left together with other military families on the orders of the unit's command. But they did not encounter any harassment in Baku.
"I worked as the head of the HR department at a company, we had a lot of Russians, but everyone lived peacefully, the only thing was that we were told to urgently learn Azerbaijani so that by next year we could print documents in this language. At the same time, even the advertisements in the newspapers were written in Russian," she recalls.
In February, when Nina turned 55, she returned to the republic to obtain documents for her pension.
"At work they even asked: "How is this possible? Did we offend you?" They gave me 60 rubles, all my documents, and salary certificates. In the spring, I flew back to Baku to pick up the rest of my things. The apartment was completely intact, no one had broken into it, no one had touched anything. My colleague, an Azerbaijani, and her boyfriend helped load the things - carpets, crystal - and took us to the airport," she recalls.