Some say the resources of the country were stolen. Others say life was good under Soviet domination. I don't know. But I think freedom carries a price. Freedom means that you can achieve whatever height you aspire with enough hard work and perseverance.
Freedom also means the freedom to fail, and be poor and destitute.
Now the oil giants are back in Baku and the money if flowing, in some circles at least. I was in Azerbaijan for about one an one half years. During that time I learned a great deal about the country and its people. I intend in these pages to share some of my experiences and views about that experience and about the country. I am going to start with something kinda wierd but to be taken as a measure of the ingenuity of the people.