Changing the alphabet is a violent blow to the cultural heritage of any nation . It means that the entire legacy of the older generation can not be read and accessed by the younger generation . Changing our alphabet four times this century has resulted in isolating us from our own thinkers . I guess under such circumstances , I should consider myself one of the lucky ones to be born in an era where I was exposed in my youth to all three alphabets-Arabic , Cyrillic and Latin . But so many people did n't have that chance . " Dilbazi has also translated works by writers such as Pushkin , Khagani and Nizami . In 1979 , she was named " People 's Poet of Azerbaijan " . President Heydar Aliyev awarded her with the Istiglal Order ( '' Order of Sovereignty '' ) in 1998 . During her long lifetime , Mirvarid witnessed Stalin 's Repressions of 1937 , the tragic losses of World War II , and the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict
Stalin 's Repressions
Great Purge
Mirvarid Dilbazi