25 February 1995 October 1987, when career KGB general and former Azerbaijan Communist Party boss Heidar Aliev was forced by Gorbachev to step down as first deputy chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, his career appeared to be over. He had been known as the architect of the apparent economic miracle that prompted Leonid Brezhnev’s euphoric pronouncement in 1981 […]
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