I would like to use the opportunity given by this assignment and narrate about one of the less known to the world events occurred during the period preceding to the collapse of the Soviet Union. The date January 20, 1990 may not be a significant date for the world history, but definitely is of a high importance for the people of Azerbaijan.
On that day Soviet government headed by Gorbachev committed a terrible criminal act in the capital city of Azerbaijan (then the Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan) – Baku. That tragic night, without any notice or declaration of the state of emergency, Soviet Army units and interior troops entered Baku with heavy weapons and staged a cruel carnage of the peaceful and unarmed population of the city. Citizens of Baku created a “live barricades” believing that the soviet military would not dare to attack the unarmed people. But they were wrong: Soviet Army attacked its own citizens. Tanks and armored personnel carriers were riding through the people leaving hundreds of dead and mutilated on the way. The tanks, mortars, and machine guns were shooting innocent and unarmed civilians making a city a heart of bloody massacre. Several …show more content…
Military troops were prepared to brutally destroy the local population. False data on a significant number of snipers and machine gunners of the Popular Azerbaijani Front was given to the troops chosen for attacking Baku, thus, the personnel waited fierce fire resistance and, in fact, been psychologically prepared for cruelty. Moreover, according to the materials available in the Commission of Inquiry, many of the military personnel were of Armenian nationality – an enemy nation for
On that day Soviet government headed by Gorbachev committed a terrible criminal act in the capital city of Azerbaijan (then the Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan) – Baku. That tragic night, without any notice or declaration of the state of emergency, Soviet Army units and interior troops entered Baku with heavy weapons and staged a cruel carnage of the peaceful and unarmed population of the city. Citizens of Baku created a “live barricades” believing that the soviet military would not dare to attack the unarmed people. But they were wrong: Soviet Army attacked its own citizens. Tanks and armored personnel carriers were riding through the people leaving hundreds of dead and mutilated on the way. The tanks, mortars, and machine guns were shooting innocent and unarmed civilians making a city a heart of bloody massacre. Several …show more content…
Military troops were prepared to brutally destroy the local population. False data on a significant number of snipers and machine gunners of the Popular Azerbaijani Front was given to the troops chosen for attacking Baku, thus, the personnel waited fierce fire resistance and, in fact, been psychologically prepared for cruelty. Moreover, according to the materials available in the Commission of Inquiry, many of the military personnel were of Armenian nationality – an enemy nation for