Thoughts of a Dying Enemy/Ölməkdə olan düşmənin düşüncələri
“War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.”
Thomas Mann, German writer (1875 – 1955)
The day is breaking. It is 8 a.m. on the clocks. The city behind the window already woke up. We’re sitting in my friend’s kitchen. Two days without sleep brings us to very strange topics of our present discussion. Instead of going to sleep we discuss politics, ideology, history, and war. Regardless of ourselves we resorted to polemics. And then my friend fed up with this argument said, “During my service in the army, every morning our commander used to tell us, ‘There are 3000 Azeri women still missing from the war, so if someday the war starts again remember, that the ones you’re killing are possibly your brothers’. I don’t want these territories, if I will have to kill for them.” He was right indeed, we had nothing to say in return…