Confessions of Stepan Shaumyan, the leader of the Baku Soviet at that time, who was the initiator and leader of the genocide against Azerbaijanis in 1918
Shaumyan himself openly confessed to the genocide of Azerbaijanis in March-April 1918. In his report to the Soviet Russian government after the tragic events of March 1918, he stated: “We took the opportunity … and launched an attack along the entire front … we already had an armed force – about 6,000 people. Dashnaktsutyun also had about 3-4 thousand national military units. They were under our subordination. The participation of the last one, in part, gave the civil war the character of a national massacre, which was not possible to avoid. We went to this consciously…. “
Source: Shaumyan S.G. Selected works. – M., 1978, v.2, p. 246
