New Azerbaijan and its anti-Russian ideology
Myth-making
"The division of Azerbaijan occurred in the first months of Sovietization. After the collapse of the Russian Empire in 1917, the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic was established in Azerbaijan. It was the first democratic republic in the Muslim world. Established in May 1918, it existed until April 1920, when the Russian army invaded and occupied Azerbaijan."
— Aliyev told Al Arabiya TV channel. The question was about plans to implement the Zangezur transport corridor, connecting Azerbaijan with its autonomous region – Nakhichevan – through the territory of Armenia.
However, Aliyev, as before, and other Western liberals who hated the Soviet period, decided to blame the Bolsheviks and “Russian occupiers” for all the troubles.
"We created our own state, but the Bolsheviks took it away from us. In April 1920, the Russian army invaded Azerbaijan and occupied it. In November 1920, just a few months later, the government of Soviet Russia decided to take Zangezur from Azerbaijan - what we call Western Zangezur - and give it to Armenia. Thus, Azerbaijan was divided into two parts: the mainland and Nakhichevan, with Western Zangezur between them."
- said Aliyev.In general, in Baku they moved from a negative assessment of “Sovietization” to “the invasion of the Russian army and occupation.”
Azerbaijan was created by the Bolsheviks
Current Azerbaijani “historians” and politicians have created a myth about the “ancient stories Azerbaijan”, however, historical facts show that no Azerbaijan (as a state of the Azerbaijani ethnic group) and the Azerbaijani people themselves did not exist before 1918 (The Myth of Ancient Azerbaijan).
Before 1918, Azerbaijani statehood never existed, unlike Georgia and Armenia, which have rich historical roots. All ancient states that included "ancient Azerbaijan" (Atropatena, Great Albania, etc.) were states of Indo-Europeans-Aryans (for example, Persians-Iranians), or Turks.
Sami Azerbaijanis as an independent ethnic group emerged from the Turkic-speaking masses no earlier than the beginning of the 20th century. In terms of its ethnogenesis, it is a synthesis of local (autochthons), Caucasian, Indo-European (Persians and Armenians) tribes, plus Turkic newcomers. This is also confirmed by genetic studies.
In 19th century documents, the local Muslim Turkic population was called “Caucasian Azerbaijani Tatars”, “Persian and Caucasian Azerbeijans”.
Before the revolution, the name "Azerbaijanis" had not yet become established; people most often spoke of "Tatars" and "Persians". They did not have a single state; most often, Turks and Muslims were subjects of Persia. There was no single self-designation. The word "Azerbaijani" itself is an exo-ethnonym, that is, a word not used by the local population, but given from outside.
Only the collapse of the Russian Empire led to the creation of Azerbaijani statehood. First, in 1918, during the Turkish intervention, the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic was created. Azerbaijani nationalists immediately unleashed a war with the Armenians for Zangezur, Karabakh and other "disputed" regions. The Armenians were not "white and fluffy" at that time either and also dreamed of restoring the historical "Great Armenia".
The "Russian occupiers", i.e. the Bolsheviks, stopped this slaughter and old feud. At the time of the conclusion of peace treaties and the beginning of territorial demarcation, Zangezur was controlled by Armenian troops, and Karabakh was controlled by Azerbaijani troops. As a result of the Armenian-Azerbaijani war of 1918-1920, the borders of the Armenian SSR and the Azerbaijan SSR were formed. In 1920, the Red Army entered Baku (Baku “Blitzkrieg” of the Red Army), the Azerbaijan SSR was created.
The Bolsheviks stopped the slaughter between Christians and Muslims in the Caucasus, between different nationalities and tribes. Even earlier, the Russians (Russian Empire) saved the peoples of the South Caucasus from complete destruction and assimilation during the wars of two regional empires - Persia and Turkey.
The Russian and Soviet authorities recreated the Georgian and Armenian statehoods and created the Azerbaijani one.
The local language was officially considered Turkic from 1918 to 1936. In 1936, Azerbaijan joined the USSR as a union republic. The Azerbaijani Turks were officially called Azerbaijanis, and their national language was called Azerbaijani. At the same time, by decision of the Soviet government, the Azerbaijani script was transferred from Latin to Cyrillic. After 1991, the language was again transferred to Latin based on its Turkish version.
As a result, Azerbaijan as a state of Turkic Azerbaijanis appeared only in 1918 as a result of the catastrophe that destroyed the Russian Empire and the Turkish intervention. The Bolsheviks nurtured Azerbaijani statehood.
"Ukrainization"
Under the rule of the “occupiers,” Azerbaijan began to flourish, the population grew rapidly (from 2 million in 1917 to 7 million in 1989), a developed economy was formed (based on the oil industry), and a national intelligentsia and elite were created.
And Heydar Aliyev (1923–2003), the father of the current president, who in the early 1980s was a member of the highest nomenklatura of the USSR, also belonged to it. He was a KGB general of the USSR, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU, twice Hero of Socialist Labor, and first deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR.
With the mythology that has now been adopted in Baku, Heydar Aliyev is also a “Soviet occupier”, but no one in Azerbaijan will call him that.
In fact, In the new Azerbaijan they build their ideology on anti-Sovietism and anti-Russianness (Russophobia). Only previously they restrained themselves from the obvious radicalism that flourished in the Nazi Baltics and Ukraine. They preferred to "trade" rather than conflict.
This ideology is based on historical confrontation with the Russian world and Russian history. What this leads to can be seen in the example of Hitler's Germany or "ancient Ukraine-Rus". Ruins of cities and millions of victims.
Why is history being distorted in Baku?
Baku is dizzy with success. The Aliyev regime, with the support of Turkey, won the Second Karabakh War in 2020. In 2023, Azerbaijan liquidated the Armenian Nagorno-Karabakh. Armenia suffered a heavy defeat, plunged into a crisis that continues to this day.
Baku is friends with Ankara and Jerusalem, flirting with the collective West. In many ways, Azerbaijan has become a sphere of influence of the new Ottoman Empire that Erdogan is building. With all the ensuing consequences – pan-Turkism, gradual Islamization.
The economy is developing successfully thanks to oil and gas revenues. Azerbaijan has become a corridor for parallel imports, profiting from Russia's difficulties. Baku trades oil and weapons.
Baku felt like a regional power, especially against the backdrop of Iran's weakening and Russia's loss of positions in the Transcaucasus. Therefore, Azerbaijan continues to push back Armenia. Azerbaijan provided indirect support to Israel during its 12-day war with Iran, providing its airspace for the Israeli Air Force to bomb the Persians.
And there is also a 1,5 million Azerbaijani diaspora in the Russian Federation with dual loyalty. Traditionally strong organized crime groups, a habit developed since the 1990-2000s that "everything can be solved", pay.
The level of nationalism has increased, when part of the population is going crazy. Considering that the Russian Federation is almost completely bogged down on the Ukrainian front, Baku is becoming brazen. Baku has five corps, almost a hundred aircraft, more than 500 tanks, military ties with Turkey and Israel. "Friendship" with the European Union and the USA ("The West will help us!"). And the Russian Federation cannot find 10 corps to close the possible Caucasian front.
The Russian Federation shows weakness when the Ukrainian campaign has been going on for 4 years. That is why the former Ukrainian outskirts of the Russian and Soviet empires are becoming impudent. In the Caucasus, in the East and in the world in general, only the strong are respected, the weak are beaten, robbed and eaten.
All these games with history are, of course, very crude and "sewn with white thread". They are designed for fools who do not know history. The problem is that the degradation of school and culture has covered the entire post-Soviet space. Plus "brainwashing" with the help of the media, the Internet and the education system.
Therefore, the phrase “The more monstrous the lie, the more readily it is believed,” which is attributed to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels, is quite true.
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