Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev said that in 1920 the russian army invaded and occupied Azerbaijan, azertag.az reported.
“When the russian Empire collapsed in 1917, Azerbaijan established the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic. It was the first democratic republic in the Muslim world, established in May 1918. It existed until April 1920, when the russian army invaded Azerbaijan and occupied it.
The Bolsheviks, who made a revolution in 1917, lied to the people. Their slogans were “factories to workers, land to farmers, freedom to the peoples.” We established our own state, but the Bolsheviks took it from us. In April 1920, the russian army invaded Azerbaijan and occupied it,” Aliyev said.
According to Aliyev, Azerbaijan, as a country that suffered from the violation of territorial integrity, supports the territorial integrity of all countries, and our position on that is straightforward. “We, from the very first days of the russian invasion of Ukraine, supported Ukraine’s territorial integrity and continue to support it.”
