Azeri Americans mark the 83rd anniversary of the liberation of Baku

September 15th, 2001

On this day 83 years ago, allied forces of young and independent Azerbaijani Democratic Republic and Turkish detachments under the command of Nuri-pasha liberated the city of Baku from the evil and bloody regime of Baku Soviet and its temporary successor Central Caspian Dictatorship. September 15th, 1918 became an important turning point in the short history of first Azerbaijani independence. Baku, the eye of our homeland, has been liberated and the government of independent republic was able to move here from the town of Ganja.

This event was also important in our history because it brought an end to months of horrible violence and massacre brought upon Azeri people by the Bolshevik gangs of Stepan Shaumyan and his Armenian Dashnak allies in Baku, Shemakha, Quba, and other Azeri towns. Even the famous Russian Bolshevik leader V.I. Lenin ironically admitted in one of his letters that Shaumyan turned Baku into Armenian hen-house. Organized Armenian gangs under Soviet and Dashnak slogans murdered 10,000 Azeri civilians just in the city of Baku on March 31st, 1918, thus starting the history of first Azeri genocide committed by Armenians. Crushed by Azeri-Turkish forces in September 1918, 26 heads of Bolshevik criminals, including Stepan Shaumyan, have fled Baku by sea but were captured and executed by British forces in Central Asian desert.

ASA greets Azeris of the world and pays tribute to the souls of Azeri and Turkish soldiers that gave their lives for Azerbaijani independence.

The Azerbaijan Society of America is a non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing knowledge about the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Azeri people, their culture and history.

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For more information about Azerbaijani history see next links:

• May 28 1918. Declaration of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic
• April, 28 1920. The downfall of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic