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Succession in politics: 26 years that changed Azerbaijans' fate and face

AZERTAC | Updated: 2019-10-16 15:34
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Heydar Aliyev rose into Azerbaijan like the sun

In those days, Azerbaijan was like a dark world both figuratively and literally. Electricity was available only for few hours in most places and entire towns and villages were in darkness at night.

There was no gas and no water… factories and plants did not work. Four-digit inflations made people go bankrupt overnight.

The public purse was empty. There was war, separatism and civil confrontation on the other side.

Heydar Aliyev rose into Azerbaijan like the sun in this hard and complicated period. He brought the country an air of spring, warmness and light by coming to power.

It was probably my good luck that I was taking part as a correspondent of AZERTAC in the first meetings of the great leader with a group of intellectuals at the Academy of Sciences and ambassadors of foreign countries on June 11, 1993. Starting that time, I was entrusted to cover all the meetings and events held by Heydar Aliyev, as well as his foreign visits. Besides being the most unforgettable years of my life, that period of my journalistic activities gave me an opportunity to watch closely the grandiosity of this genius personality and his unprecedented activities for the sake of his country and people.

I remember well that great leader Heydar Aliyev was speaking with a pain in his heart about the difficult situation in the country at his first oath taking ceremony on October 10, 1993 and said: "The people of Azerbaijan are living the most complicated and tragic period of their history. I deeply realize the responsibility of this post on me and I would like to assure that I will devote all my activities and all my life to justify this confidence and the hopes of the people". Time has proven many times that it was true.

While writing this article, I came across an interview given by national leader to a Russian newspaper when he was still the chairman of the Supreme Soviet. Replying to the question on dreams, Heydar Aliyev says: "When I was young, my first dream was to become an architect. I even studied a little to become one. But then I had to give up this dream although it is still in my heart. By the way, I did quite a lot for urban construction when I was the leader of Azerbaijan."

Another question from the correspondent: "What is your first dream now?"

Heydar Aliyev replies: "I have no dream except prosperity and peace for my people. I have dedicated all my being and all my power and capabilities to this cause".

Although Heydar Aliyev was not a professional architect by training, he built and created national statehood as a subtle architect. He did his best to put his people into prosperity and peace. His political successor Ilham Aliyev lives with the same mission. He is taking Azerbaijan to a brighter future in the light of the ideas of the great leader.

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