Once I went to the grocery market to buy something, I don't remember. I walk, wander through the lines, choose what I need. Well, I stopped by one of the sellers to buy some vegetables. Nearby, a young Azerbaijani lad was trading, and he offered fruit to buyers.
Well, apparently, he was bored sitting all day and he was starting to have a little bit of fun. And, he talked about such a topic that you need to buy a pomegranate to protect yourself from vampires. Well, he sat down to offer his cargo: "Vampires, vampires, vampires everywhere!" Buy more vampire pomegranates! ”
All in all, he muttered for half a moment before he accidentally finished: "Vampire, vampire!" Nokia Connect man" Said, everyone fifty meters away (including himself) laughed and almost broke down. I had to take some things from him, and the rest of the people packed up.
That backstory is like that. Azerbaijanis really trade regularly in the market, and, moreover, they offer all the gifts of their land: vegetables, fruits and even vegetables. Russia's Azerbaijani mafia, while not particularly proud, also started with controlling the market. However, you should not be particularly ashamed: there are bandits in any country, and crime in the post-Soviet space is usually international.
Let us tell you why Azerbaijanis have chosen this profession for themselves.
We need to start with the fact that Transcaucasia was clearly the birthplace of the Neolithic revolution. It was here, long before the formation of modern nations, that people first turned to agriculture. Here, for the first time in human history, wild wheat was planted.
Before the twentieth century, the international food trade was underdeveloped. There is no technology to transport nature's gifts over long distances. Therefore, the manufacturer does not have serious specialization. In Belarus, the potato bears fruitful fruit - we will only grow it, while in Uzbekistan, the cotton yield is high - we will stop growing everything else, nothing is more delicious than Ukrainian fat - let us stop breeding other animals, marijuana grows very well in Kazakhstan ... ... Overall, you think understanding. Cannabis was once used to make ropes.
With no distance from one region, every country and historical region was forced to grow everything needed for life. So, literally, everything is grown in any region: wheat for bread, linen for clothing, livestock for meat, vegetables for soups, and fruits for vitamins. Even if this or that particular area is not very suitable for growing a certain product.
The Russian Empire united many nationalities. But, in general, there is no way to get deep into their inner ways. The Soviet Union pursued a different policy and set itself ambitious goals for everyone to be happy. To that end, we must deal with the economic problems of the Republic on a global scale.
Apparently, the first person to establish regional specialization was the one who invented it by Lavrenty Beria. In the mid-1930s, before joining the NKVD, he worked in the Party in the Transcaucasian region, contributing greatly to the national economy of the Soviet Socialist Republic there.
Under his leadership, Georgia became a union-wide resort, and other republics began to specialize in growing vegetables and fruits, which provided the best yields in the subtropics. When Lafrentti Paritsch was promoted, he had the same idea about Russia. He lightly stopped planting there, which was not suitable for the climate of the Russian Great Plains, but they emphasized wheat as much as possible.
It delivers immediate results. When republican economies stop doing what they're not good at, and instead, do what they're good at, it immediately brings benefits. It really helps everyone.
Now let's go back to Azerbaijan. Strategically, the country benefited the most from this decision. Very hardworking people live here and the local soil is very fertile. As early as the post-war period, azerbaijani SSRs had already overwhelmed RSFSR with their products.
Remember that actor Vladimir Etush received advice from friends after filming The Caucasian prisoners to avoid the Story of the Highlanders as much as possible. He accidentally arrived at the market and was surrounded by a group of Azerbaijanis. But they were not offended at all. On the contrary, caucasians really like the role he plays. Let me remind you that this Soviet comedy was released in 1966.
At the same time, or a little earlier, Magomayev's great predecessor, the Soviet singer Rashid Bebdov, sang this song:
Our beautiful prairie will be famous for its bread!
Our beautiful prairie will be famous for its bread!
Well, bread! What bread!
Well, bread! What bread!
My native wheat bread!
Our Azerbaijani bread!
No one has ever sung such a song after him – Azerbaijan has a close connection with vegetables and fruits.
With the passage of time, more and more Azerbaijanis exchanged gifts from their country in Russia. Later, they even drove Georgians and Armenians out of this field – they began to encounter difficulties in the nineties, but Azerbaijan's economy developed rapidly. Azerbaijan is now the largest exporter of fruits and vegetables in the post-Soviet region. But from Russia, which specializes in growing bread, he got the chance to buy the best wheat in the world.
The Soviet staff was strong-willed, and the end result proved to be beneficial to everyone