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
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