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Lecturer at the university in Azerbaijan described to his students with great rapture for several times and in bright colors how he would with his bare hands without regret strangle even a small Armenian child, recalls the author of the article in the site of Azerbaijani information agency Turan.

The abovementioned professor was lecturing the theory of radio journalism and simultaneously was working on “AZTV radio.” At the beginning of each lecture, the professor asked the students which stories were the most important for Azerbaijan that week. “God forbid if someone mentioned any crucial thing about the authorities, the red eyes would turn purple, and the veins would stand out now not only on his nose, but all over the face and neck. This professor had one “iron argument” for all criticisms “how can you criticize our President, when we have such a problem for the whole country in the face of Armenians, you should focus on this,” the article reads.

The author notes that today even the laziest person in Azerbaijan reads “Stone Dreams” written by Ekrem Eylisli. “Though, it’s wrong to say it in that way. Even the laziest people discuss and condemn the “Stone Dreams”. It’s from the series like “I have not read Pasternak, but I condemn him,” the article says.

Discussion of the book reached the Azerbaijani Parliament. “Members of the Parliament apparently discussed all the problems in the country, and the only issue left to discuss was the genetic code of Ekrem Eylisli. Earlier, the Azerbaijani “patriots” staged a protest under the windows of Eylisli’s apartment,” the author says.

“Both the activists and the MPs unanimously called Eylisli an Armenian, anti-Azerbaijani element, etc. protesting against the book which allegedly is about Armenians and Azerbaijanis,” the article reads.

The author notes that, the agenda of the social protests in the regions of Azerbaijan dramatically changed into verbal lynching of Eylisli and sophisticated discussions about his relations with the Armenians. “Turning the subject over the Armenians, as soon as things get tough, is not a new policy for our government. For example, only a few days ago pro-governmental TV channels, while discussing the famous accusatory investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova, told that her mother was Armenian. They touch Armenian subject at every trifle so that citizens screamed, steamed, get annoyed with the Armenians,” the author writes.

“It's amazing how the lessons of history of other people and our own do not teach us anything. How long can we blame the Armenians and like a child with a new toy carry the idea that we have suffered, that they have tortured us in the past and what a pain it is for our people (and please do not bring an example of an analogy of the Armenian genocide, now I am talking about us, not about them), forgetting the fact what Aliyev’s government is doing to us right now, today, every day. Is it not a rather moral than physical humiliation for our people and its destruction?” the author sums up.