What is the peculiarity of the military-historical exposition in Baku?

Baku/14.04.21/Turan: On April 12, President Ilham Aliyev opened a military exhibition in Baku - the Park of captured Armenian equipment. The exhibition will open to visitors this week.

Seeing in the photographs, along with the broken and intact enemy equipment, mannequins depicting Armenian soldiers and officers, the Azerbaijanis argued whether it was correct to present the enemy in this form. The mannequins in the uniform of the Armenian army are made with large noses.

“I don’t know whose idea it is, but it’s not very good. It does not smell very fresh to portray the suffering of a defeated soldier of an enemy army. Although I have always been a hawk. I believed that while the enemy soldier trampled on my homeland, you could not negotiate with him. The earth should burn under his feet. But, after he died, or surrendered, he ceases to be an enemy. He deserves mercy,” an Azerbaijani living abroad writes in a social network.

In the world exhibition practice, the exposition of mannequins in the form of an enemy army is a common thing. Azerbaijan is not the first, but the last state in this.

In the Swedish city of Kalmar, the author of these lines, Kamal Ali, paid 20 kroons (there was no single European currency at that time) and descended into the compartments of an old Soviet diesel submarine. A Finnish person bought this ship in the crumbling USSR, brought it to Sweden and created an exhibition of gloomy Soviet reality in it. Inside, in a very cramped commander's compartment, I planted a dummy in the form of a Soviet sea captain; on the table in front of him was a bottle of vodka.

Finns on the eve of World War II fought with the Soviet aggressor, losing territory. In the soviet district of Volgograd, in the basement of an ordinary private house, there is a huge collection of items from the Great Patriotic War - from flashlights and shoulder blades to dummies of soldiers of the Soviet and German army. Collected rarities 73-year-old retired general, university teacher Alexander Egorov.

There is a similar museum with dummies of enemy soldiers in the Pskov region of Russia, the city of Ostrov.

In the city of Ypres, not far from the site of one of the bloodiest battles of the First World War, tourists see the Museum "In the Fields of Flanders". In addition to the soldier's dummies, there is a stuffed artillery battle horse on display.

In the German city of Ingolstadt there is a military history museum of the history of the army of the "free state of Bavaria". The exposition, covering the period from the 14th to the 19th century, shows images of German soldiers and warriors of the armies of the opponents of the Bavarian kingdom.

It is interesting and informative to show tourists the appearance of enemy military personnel, to recreate historical events for future generations. Historical military exhibitions attract tourists and provide the state with direct and indirect profits. In this, Azerbaijan is not original. The difference between the Azerbaijani military exposition and similar ones in other countries is that only in Baku images of the enemy are exhibited in a satirical context - with huge noses. –0—