Azerbaijan's foreign propaganda purposes in the Karabakh issue have long been evident – to ascribe the Azerbaijani military aggression against the Republic of Artsakh to the Armenian party, to consider the Karabakh-Azerbaijani conflict as a conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, and to claim the historical Armenian territories liberated during the war imposed on the Armenians of Artsakh as Azerbaijani territories.

            Baku's propagandists, using similar forgeries, try to draw the attention of the international community from the essence of the conflict, distorting its historical-political and legal grounds.

              It is already the 21^st spring since gaining its state independence that the Nagorno Karabakh Republic has celebrated May 9 as a triple holiday. The traditional and popularly beloved Day of Victory over the German fascism in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 was supplemented by the Day of liberation of the ancient capital city of Karabakh – Shushi and creation of the NKR Defense Army. Surely, the coincidence in time of the victory in Shushi and the victory over fascism was the result of a confluence of circumstances, but still, this has perhaps a deep meaning. Both in the already far Soviet forties and in our nineties, it was the matter of the existence of the state and the people, and it were the victories in THAT and THIS war that saved, respectively, the citizens of the USSR and the NKR from physical extermination.