oday in history: The Azerbaijan Communist (b) Party was founded in Baku on February 11-12, 1920, and A. Mikoyan, an enemy of the Azerbaijani people, was appointed as its de facto leader.
The party launched an armed insurgency to depose the national government and establish Soviet Azerbaijan. Soviet Russia cleverly exploited Armenia’s hostility against Azerbaijan to include the Armenian uprisings in Ganjabasar and Karabakh, as well as the Armenian war against Azerbaijan, in this plan. At a time when almost the entire Azerbaijani army was fighting against Armenian rebels in Karabakh, the 11th Russian army, which defeated Denikin’s troops in April 1920, approached Azerbaijan’s northern borders and entered the country on the night of April 26-27, 1920.
Despite repeated submissions to the League of Nations and world policy-making states regarding Bolshevik Russia’s occupation of Azerbaijan, the Allies silently welcomed the Bolsheviks’ occupation of Azerbaijan.
On April 29, Azerbaijan’s Revolutionary Committee requested military assistance from Soviet Russia. However, on April 27, the 11th Russian army was within Azerbaijan’s borders. As a result, the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic collapses after 23 months of operation, and Azerbaijan is declared a Soviet Socialist Republic on April 28.
