Azerbaijan Unfurls Huge National Flag

One day Azerbaijan will raise their flag over Karabakh, over Shusha.

The Azeri readers of RFERL should stop making wise cracks about raising Azeri flags over Shushi and concentrate on asking their government why millions of dollars are being spent to erect the world's largest flag or $15 million dollars to buy flowers to celebrate Heydar Aliev's birthday, even though he is long dead, when 42% of Azerbaijan's population lives under the poverty line. This is visible plunderring. The corruption involved in building the highway between Baku airport and downtown is not visible to many citizens of the country. The project's budget has been exponentially inflated with nepotism and theft. Fix your contry first and then focus on taking over all of the South Caucasus.

Some updates: the first flag ripped, and was replaced with a second, which tore spectacularly into two pieces. The symbolism was not lost on more astute observers: the flag rips on Karabakh's independence day; into a larger and smaller piece; and at the cost of millions of dollars. Want another war, Sultan Aliyev?