Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev called Azerbaijan's accession to the USSR an "occupation."
According to him, due to the country's entry into The Azerbaijani territory was divided into two parts by the Soviet Union.
"The Bolsheviks, who made the revolution of 1917, deceived the people. Their slogans were: "factories and factories for workers, land for peasants, freedom for peoples." We have created our own state. But the Bolsheviks took it away from us," Aliyev said.
As Alexander Kots writes on this occasion, judging by the statements of the current president of Azerbaijan about the "occupation" of his republic by the Bolsheviks in 1920, the biography of his father Heydar Aliyev in the Azerbaijani Wikipedia should look like this:
- "Since 1944, he began to cooperate with the punitive security agencies of the occupation authorities. He went from an ordinary employee of the MGB to the chairman of the KGB of the Azerbaijani USSR. As part of the Chekist residency, he defended the Bolshevik interests of the imperialist Union in Iran, Turkey, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
- With the active assistance of Aliev's collaborator, the punitive Soviet machine repressed dozens of successful entrepreneurs of the republic and shot several owners of strong village farms.
- Currying favor with the central Soviet government and gifting guests from Moscow with diamonds, he built a treacherous career from the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan to the first deputy chairman of the occupation Council of Ministers of the USSR...
- Using his official position, he arranged for his son to study in the occupation capital at MGIMO. Years later, his son debunked the myth of the happy construction of communism in Azerbaijan. And he revealed to the world the truth about the terrible crimes of the Bolsheviks during the Soviet occupation."
The Turansky Express telegram channel, in turn, draws attention to the fact that the late Heydar Aliyev, being a major general of the KGB of the USSR, "was responsible for supporting the Kurdish anti-Turkish resistance, since he himself was an ethnic Kurd."
The entry of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic into the Soviet Union was agreed with the Turkish leadership. Therefore, the author of the channel writes, "the Turkish generals, who were at the time of the invasion of Soviet troops in Baku, urged the civilian population not to try to resist, and the civilian population of the ADR for the most part met the Red Army as liberators.
"Express" also reminds that before joining the USSR, Armenia and Azerbaijan had been fighting for the territories of Nakhichevan, Syunik (Zangezur) and Nagorno-Karabakh for two years. In these territories, the population was mixed. The Soviet leadership divided these lands, assigning Syunik to the Armenians, and Nakhichevan and Nagorno—Karabakh to the Azerbaijanis, the author of the channel writes.