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With feeling of gratitude and deep appreciation to my father, Nazarov Mugbil Khalil oglu, veteran of the Great Patriotic War, who went through the whole war from Leningrad to Berlin and met the end of the war in Berlin, with infinite respect remembering the German people as highly cultured, hardworking and well-organized, to my mother Ryabova Lidia Dmitrievna and aunt Ida Alfredovna Rezel, whose parents came from Germany to Azerbaijan in the early 20th century to work in the oil industry.

Economic ideas are the product of the environment in which they arise. A thought, an idea, a word-formed consciousness, an ideology, is the result of the everyday life and the social order where it is created and developed.

V.V.Svyatlovsky, Russian historian, economist, writer

– I came to you through the dense forest, through the dense thicket, through the high mountains, through the wide rivers… I thought of you! I came to you! Come out, come out, queen of my soul’s dreams!

And hearing the quiet sound of slow footsteps, the knight Hazir even squeezed his eyes shut: he was afraid that he would be blinded by the sight of the marvelous beauty.

He stood there with his heart beating hard, and when he plucked up courage and opened his eyes, there before him was a naked old woman. Her skin, brown and wrinkled, hung in folds. Her gray hair was piled in tangles. Her eyes were watery. She was hunched over, leaning on a beak. Hazir recoiled in disgust.

– I am the truth! – she said. – Did you think you’d find a beauty? Yes, I was! On the first day the world was created. Allah himself has only seen such beauty once! But, after all, centuries have passed by since then. I’m as old as the world, I’ve suffered a lot, and that doesn’t make me more beautiful, my knight! It doesn’t!

Hazir felt he was going mad… He stood before her, looking mad, clutching his head:

– What shall I say? What shall I say?

Truth fell on her knees before him and, stretching out her hands to him, said in a pleading voice:

– Lie!

Arabic parable «The Truth»