If Heydar Aliyev had led the Soviet Union, there would have been peace in the post-Soviet space, Alexei Zhuravlev, first deputy chairman of the State Duma Defense Committee of the Russian Federation, said at a memorial evening in Moscow dedicated to the national leader of the Azerbaijani people Heydar Aliyev, Report informs.

He noted that a personality of such magnitude will live forever in people’s memory throughout the post-Soviet space.