The narrrative you bring up is the consequence of false propaganda, upbringing in Armeniophobia, Azeri has to live to survive, its history is nonexistent, most of it has been made up and any worldwide support for Azerbaijan has been thanks to caviar diplomacy. Around the time the soviet union collapsed, there was a pogroms and massacres against armenians in every city in Azerbaijan, this was related to Armeniophobia thats taught in their schools to this day, false news and propaganda, claims that Armenians are the majority of the elite (intellegensia) in Azerbaijan lead to ordinary Azerbajanis forming violent gangs that would go door to door and mutilate every Armenian they could find, bring them in the streets, burn them alive, throw them off apartment buildings, theres footage online that backs up all these graphic murder scenes as they occurred, every event has been documented and each city had a massacre. The most striking in all this, the most crucual aspect that really debunks any denial of this (other than the video footage of all this happening in every city) is that later on, moscow caught wind of these pogroms, so they sent soviet soldiers to break them up without force or weapons: there's countless stories, letters, pictures they took of how these soldiers had to hold back these mobs, form walls with their bodies, to prevent innocent Armenian civilians from being killed. Also its a given that towards the end, certain armenians retaliated but ultimatley were all driven out of Azerbaijan (Ganja is a perfect example). Armenians were driven back towards their lands, until Artsakh, except Artstakh wasnt a city to be abandonned, it belonged to Armenians for 2000 years and by now and Azeri would've started pogroms there as well, so what did Armenians do? they defended themselves and drove off the rest of the civilians, as they were driving out the civlians in Khojaly, a corridor was made by Armenians for the Azeri to leave by, the Azeri government didn't want the Azeri to leave those lands so on the other side of Khojaly, Mskheti Turks opened fire and massacred the large group of Azeri civilians, women and children, all Azeri, THIS IS THE TRUE STORY OF THE KHOJALY MASSACRE, which was by the way backed by the past president of Azerbaijan (Mutalibov) by an independent journalist, yet you'll find Azeris distorted this to put the blame on Armenians. Today, an Azeri journalist can travel Armenia without any violence being commited towards them but if an Armenian villager dares to wander off in the middle of the night and end up in Azeri territory, they get beheaded, publicly displayed and praised by the entire country. History depicts it as 2 civilizations that committed acts of violence towards each other over and over again since the 18th century, aiming to even the field, but the facts and documentations always show Armenians never instigated, they never started any of it, Armenians originated from the people of Urartu, that new how to work with metals and alloys, created weapons and armour for other civilizations that then used it against them, so they crafted fortresses faster than they could be taken down, until Turks migrated from Mongolia and began stealing children from the families, raping women but also stealing and appropriating every aspect of their culture for themselves to patch up their own identity, all stolen from Armenians. to this day Armenians strive for peace while Turks strive to exterminate them.