Mysteries.of.the.Abandoned.S09E13.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-BTN_track3_[und] Subtitles

At 00:00:01,300, Character said: [narrator] A site
in Azerbaijan

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At 00:00:03,367, Character said: shattered by rivalry

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At 00:00:06,000, Character said: A whole city is forced
to leave their homes.

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At 00:00:12,066, Character said: [narrator] A once
Socialist site founded by
the ultimate capitalist.

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At 00:00:16,567, Character said: He was known as
Europe's Rockefeller.

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At 00:00:21,667, Character said: [narrator]
And Gothic horror
in the mid-west.

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At 00:00:24,066, Character said: [Onyeka] This seemingly
Old World European castle

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At 00:00:27,166, Character said: became the very seed

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At 00:00:29,567, Character said: and cesspool of deviants.

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At 00:00:30,000, Character said: and cesspool of deviants.

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At 00:00:35,367, Character said: [narrator] Decaying relics,

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At 00:00:38,200, Character said: ruins of lost worlds,

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At 00:00:42,166, Character said: sites haunted by the past,

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At 00:00:45,800, Character said: their secrets waiting
to be revealed.

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At 00:00:59,266, Character said: [narrator] In the shadow
of the Caucasus mountains
in Azerbaijan,

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At 00:01:00,000, Character said: [narrator] In the shadow
of the Caucasus mountains
in Azerbaijan,

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At 00:01:03,367, Character said: is a ghost town
with a desolate past.

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At 00:01:10,166, Character said: [Dominic]
Nestling among green trees
are hundreds of buildings,

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At 00:01:12,767, Character said: but they've been annihilated

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At 00:01:14,166, Character said: with only their shells
remaining.

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At 00:01:17,266, Character said: [Wise] It's an eerie sight.

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At 00:01:18,867, Character said: It looks like something
out of a disaster movie.

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At 00:01:23,567, Character said: The roads and streets
are deserted.

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At 00:01:27,066, Character said: There's no one to be seen
anywhere.

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At 00:01:29,667, Character said: But there's this one building
that survived.

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At 00:01:30,000, Character said: But there's this one building
that survived.

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At 00:01:36,667, Character said: The mosque gives a clue
to the heritage of this place.

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At 00:01:41,667, Character said: [narrator] As does another
unexpected find.

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At 00:01:45,300, Character said: [Jim] In the middle
of all this rubble

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At 00:01:47,066, Character said: is a beautiful painted mural.

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At 00:01:49,867, Character said: Maybe it foreshadows
some kind of revival

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At 00:01:53,467, Character said: of this shattered city.

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At 00:01:56,567, Character said: [narrator]
What disaster struck
this once-bustling city

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At 00:02:00,000, Character said: [narrator]
What disaster struck
this once-bustling city

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At 00:02:00,166, Character said: and displaced over
half a million civilians
from this remote region?

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At 00:02:12,900, Character said: [narrator] The disputed
territory of Karabakh
is difficult to access.

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At 00:02:17,700, Character said: Here, war correspondent
Emin Ibrahimov

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At 00:02:21,367, Character said: knows only too well
the dangers that come
with his job.

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At 00:02:26,100, Character said: In October 2020
I was covering
the Karabakh war

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At 00:02:29,467, Character said: between Azerbaijan
and Armenia.

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At 00:02:30,000, Character said: between Azerbaijan
and Armenia.

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At 00:02:32,066, Character said: Fortunately I had a dashcam
that was able to capture
everything.

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At 00:02:36,767, Character said: One day I g***t a chance to
go to a village

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At 00:02:40,667, Character said: that was just
recently liberated.

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At 00:02:42,266, Character said: And it was going to be
an exclusive,

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At 00:02:44,000, Character said: I was supposed to be
the first, uh,

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At 00:02:46,467, Character said: the first journalist
to go there.

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At 00:02:48,467, Character said: So I took my car
and on the way,

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At 00:02:50,667, Character said: I saw a rocket
just in front of me,

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At 00:02:55,567, Character said: [bleep]

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At 00:02:57,367, Character said: Passed just above the car,

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At 00:02:59,600, Character said: and I felt an impact,

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At 00:03:00,000, Character said: and I felt an impact,

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At 00:03:01,367, Character said: a shockwave from the impact
just behind me.

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At 00:03:05,166, Character said: [narrator] Emin was
caught up in a war

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At 00:03:07,166, Character said: that has plagued
this part of the world
for decades.

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At 00:03:10,567, Character said: [Ibrahimov]
So I really stepped on it,
trying to go

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At 00:03:13,066, Character said: as fast as can
without losing

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At 00:03:15,367, Character said: control of the car.

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At 00:03:16,867, Character said: I found some cover,
g***t out of the car,

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At 00:03:19,867, Character said: and, uh, it's probably
only then that I realized
that I just

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At 00:03:23,967, Character said: barely escaped, uh, death.

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At 00:03:38,300, Character said: [Dominic] The border region
of Karabakh

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At 00:03:40,367, Character said: has been the center
of a dispute

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At 00:03:42,166, Character said: in a tug of war between
Armenia and Azerbaijan.

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At 00:03:49,400, Character said: [narrator] In the last
three decades alone,

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At 00:03:51,367, Character said: the conflict has taken
tens of thousands
of human lives.

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At 00:03:56,066, Character said: Yet, it's relatively unknown.

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At 00:03:58,266, Character said: [Jim] People didn't hear
much about this conflict

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At 00:04:00,000, Character said: [Jim] People didn't hear
much about this conflict

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At 00:04:01,467, Character said: the way they do
about conflicts

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At 00:04:03,066, Character said: in other regions.
It happened

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At 00:04:04,767, Character said: in an area that most
Westerners don't know
much about.

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At 00:04:08,467, Character said: And between two groups
of people who are often

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At 00:04:11,667, Character said: overlooked by history.

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At 00:04:15,867, Character said: [narrator] Whole cities
were annihilated

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At 00:04:18,467, Character said: in two bloody wars
in the early 1990s

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At 00:04:21,266, Character said: and 2020.

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At 00:04:23,266, Character said: And it has left
a deadly legacy.

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At 00:04:26,100, Character said: [Ibrahimov] Today,
you can only travel

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At 00:04:27,867, Character said: on the main roads
because of the danger
of the mines.

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At 00:04:30,000, Character said: on the main roads
because of the danger
of the mines.

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At 00:04:31,000, Character said: If you wanna step off
the main road,
you actually

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At 00:04:33,467, Character said: have to have
a team of deminers

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At 00:04:35,166, Character said: check the area before you do.

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At 00:04:38,100, Character said: [narrator] This region
was once riddled with
nearly 100,000 mines.

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At 00:04:44,767, Character said: [Ibrahimov] We're on
the central square
of the most popular place

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At 00:04:47,266, Character said: among city residents.

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At 00:04:49,000, Character said: Um, behind me used to be

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At 00:04:51,166, Character said: uh, City Hall
and this building,

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At 00:04:53,967, Character said: or what is left of it,
used to be a drama theater,

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At 00:04:57,667, Character said: uh, which was built
in the '50s.

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At 00:05:00,000, Character said: uh, which was built
in the '50s.

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At 00:05:00,266, Character said: It was the cultural center
of the region.

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At 00:05:02,967, Character said: [Dominic] You wouldn't believe
that this was once a thriving,
bustling city

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At 00:05:06,667, Character said: with people living
normal lives here.

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At 00:05:12,000, Character said: [narrator] Amid the rubble,
is a stark reminder

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At 00:05:15,066, Character said: of those who lived here.

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At 00:05:19,367, Character said: [Ibrahimov]
The beautiful mural
depicts three attributes

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At 00:05:22,066, Character said: of Azerbaijani culture.

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At 00:05:23,700, Character said: The woman is holding
a tray with the symbols
of Novruz holiday.

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At 00:05:28,667, Character said: The singer is holding a saz,

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At 00:05:30,000, Character said: The singer is holding a saz,

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At 00:05:31,367, Character said: an Azeri instrument.

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At 00:05:33,166, Character said: And, uh, a woman with a child
is wearing a shawl

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At 00:05:36,867, Character said: called Kelaghayi.

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At 00:05:38,567, Character said: All three are protected
by UNESCO

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At 00:05:40,567, Character said: and are parts of
the intangible heritage
of the humanity.

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At 00:05:46,367, Character said: [narrator] This is
the Azerbaijani city
of Agdam,

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At 00:05:50,667, Character said: once, the cultural hub
of the region.

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At 00:05:54,800, Character said: Agdam was a very
modern, progressive
city for this area.

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At 00:06:00,000, Character said: Agdam was a very
modern, progressive
city for this area.

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At 00:06:00,166, Character said: Any Westerner could have
strolled through the streets
and visited

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At 00:06:03,767, Character said: the cafes and felt
right at home.

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At 00:06:06,667, Character said: And yet, all of that
was swept away

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At 00:06:10,367, Character said: in a relatively short
period of time.

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At 00:06:15,467, Character said: [narrator] Until 1991,

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At 00:06:18,066, Character said: Agdam and the region
known then as Nagorno-Karabakh

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At 00:06:21,367, Character said: had been under Soviet control
for over 70 years.

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At 00:06:27,667, Character said: [Dominic]
During the Soviet era,

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At 00:06:29,367, Character said: Nagorno-Karabakh was part
of the Soviet Republic
of...