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The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic. 1918-1920.
Despite the peaceful policy of theAzerbaijan Democratic
Republic, Armenians continued their genocide policy
in Karabakh. Considering the situation, the Democratic
Republic adopted a decision on January 13, 1919, to appoint
a General Governor to the counties of Javanshir, Shusha,
Jabrayil, and Zangezur. Khosrovpasha bey Sultanov was
appointed to this post. He came to Shusha in February of
1919 to execute his duty.
Despite the protest of the Republic of Armenia and the
strained relations with the US and UK, a great deal of work
was fulfilled in Karabakh. However, Armenians attempted
to maintain their ethnic cleansing policy in Karabakh and
committed massacres against Azerbaijanis in the counties
of Javanshir, Shusha, Jabrayil, and Zangezur. The war of
separatism and invasion staged by Armenians in Karabakh
on the basis of orders from Bolshevik Russia forced the
Azerbaijan Democratic Republic to deploy its military
forces in that region. This made it difficult to defend the
northern borders of the Republic.
Following the fall of theAzerbaijan Democratic Republic
on April 28, 1920, Soviet power came to the counties of
Shusha, Jabrayil, and Javanshir in the first half of May.
As Soviet power was declared in Armenia on November
29, 1920, a large part of Zangezur was handed over to
Armenians with the direct assistance and participation of
Bolshevik Russia, and as a result, Nakhchivan became an
exclave of Azerbaijan.
The foundation of the Nagorno Karabakh Autonomous
District (Nagorno Karabakh’skaya Avtonom’naya Oblast’ –
NKAO in Russian) in the mountainous area on July 7, 1923
laid the basis of the future separatism of Armenians. In
addition, the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic continued
its claims to Nagorno Karabakh. During the period from
1920-1930, Armenians failed to realize their plans, and
therefore, they re-activated this policy after the Second
World War. In November 1945, Arutyunov, then leader of
the Central Committee of the Communist (Bolshevik) Party
of Armenia asked Stalin to attach the region of Karabakh
of Azerbaijan SSR to Armenia SSR. The text of his appeal
was sent by G.M. Malenkov, the Secretary of the Central
Committee of All-Union Communist (Bolshevik) Party
to M.J. Bagirov to be reviewed. Bagirov’s reply sent on
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