This is the documentary from the BBC World Service.

I'm Gregora Tanethian on assignment in Armenia.

Imagine a nation uniting around one project, one idea, one cause, and spending 30 years fighting for it. A project that

defines its policy and education and becomes the single most important question

on which politicians and even celebrities are judged.

What happens then when this epic project suddenly ends in a complete and total defeat.

I travel to the South Caucasus, a region with a rich and bloody history,

to try and answer this question. So there was this bar in Arseh, it was called Bardak, which it was translated to mess and it was a messy place in a way that there were

Artifacts from different parts of Artsakh and things that don't go together for example some posters of rock icons and an old

telephone and flags of all the countries on this planet Earth.

Bardak was the first pub actually that opened in Arzak because it's a bit conservative space and very fast became the favorite spot for all the young people and all the foreigners who came to visit Arzak.

I'm Azat Dian. I was born in 1990 and in 1990 and in 2016 I opened Bardac. At first it wasn't meant to be a pub. It was just a place where I hung

out with my friends. Then I borrowed my father's cassette player and a few things to make the

place cozier. That's how it all started. and a few things to make the place go there.

That's how it all started.

This is the story of the pub,

its regulars and the country it opened in, Arzah. You may never have heard of Arthah because it doesn't exist.

And even when it did, it wasn't recognized by a single member of the United Nations.

But it had a national anthem, a government, an army, a university, a dance company and a football team that played in the international championship of unrecognized nations beating Padania in Italy to kneel in its greatest triumph in 2019 and its 100,000 people

thought it was paradise on earth.

People who was lived in Arzach,

when you talk with that people,

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