Soviet Union Issues

The end of the Twentieth century was challenging. The collapse of the Soviet Union, one of the strongest and most powerful alliances during the world history, created a chaotic situation within its former member states, who were both politically and economically depended on each other. Most of those countries have already had some nationalistic movements and were tending to become independent. 69 years of one-party domination came to the end and all the member states of the Soviet Union started to declare independence. Although the socialist brotherhood and cultural unity which was highly promoted by the Communist Party created a temporary peace in the area of the Soviet Union, it has also created a fake curtain, covering the various issues that the member states had between each other. Some of the member states had territorial and ethnic issues even before joining the Union, which worsened over time of the

Two of those countries were Armenia and Azerbaijan, who had various territorial disputes. Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast was the biggest reason of the conflict. During the Soviet Union, Armenian and Azerbaijan developed a deep friendship and collaboration, which led the two countries to temporarily ignore the territorial issue. However, after the collapse of the Union, Armenia and Azerbaijan faced a problem in determining their national borders. Both of the sides were claiming the Karabakh region as their own, which was officially part of Azerbaijan but culturally and politically dependent on Armenia. A similar process could be seen in the Balkans. Yugoslavia, which was composed of six states, started to fell apart in the early 1990s. The wars that started to arise between countries ended up leading the Yugoslavian states to get independence. Besides the six main member states, there were two autonomous regions in Yugoslavia, located in Serbia: Vojvodina and Kosovo. After the collapse of Yugoslavia,