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Appendix.
Extracts from ‘‘ Vatari Yolinda ” {see paragraph No. 13).
Vatari' Yolinda,” No. 6 , dated 21s£ April, 1944.
The ‘lYth Anniversary of Soviet Government in Azarbaijan. pe
The Azarbaijanis and of what they can boast.
During the last twenty-four years of Soviet Government, under the
brilliant policy of the Bolshevik party, there has been great progress in arts,
education, distribution of land and food, and many people have been trained
for Government ppsts and defence work.
Before the revolution there were few engineers, doctors and teachers in
Azarbaijan but now there are thousands of them. To-day Azarbaijan may boast
of its numerous doctors, engineers, generals, officers, artists, teachers, writers,
painters, specialists and the brave young men who have been decorated for their
valour. There are also many well-known Azerbaijanis outside Azarbaijan.
Besides this many Azarbaijanis are working in commissaries and other organisa
tions outside the republic, and in order to help the war effort many engineers,
workers, mechanics, &c., are toiling in the oilfields.
Vatan Yolinda ” No. 8 , dated 2f$th April, 1944.
Azarbaijan during the last 24 years under Soviet Government.
Azarbaijan is a country of civilisation and education. It has made great
progress in these during the last twenty-four years under Soviet Government.
The national policy of bolshevism has changed Azarbaijan from an illiterate
country to an educated one.
The April revolution greatly benefitted the Azarbaijanis, who now possess
schools and fine arts which they had not known in the past. With the first years
of revolution schools were established in every part of the country and the children
of workers and labourers who in the past had been deprived of education were
now educated free of charge. In 1914 there were 73,000 students, by 1940 the
number had risen to 717,000. During the Soviet regime the number of schools
has increased year by year so that between 1920 and 1939, 837 schools have been
established. One of the greatest benefits the revolution has brought is the high
schools, which now produce doctors, engineers, specialists, &c. Before the revolu
tion there were only five-six papers being published, now there are are sixty.
Before the revolution very little was known of opera, now we have many like
Kor Oghli, Shah Ismael Markis and many others.
“ Vatan Yolinda” No. 9, dated 2%th April, 1944.
The Result of the War forEreedom.
Azarbaijan did not gain Soviet Government, national freedom and a
progressive life without any trouble, for during the past thousand years, as history
will show, they have fought against usurpers, cruel men, and lately against the
Czarist Government. They have gained it through the devotion of great men.
Stalin, who is the founder of bolshevism in the Caucasus, came to Baku in
1904 and started to lead the people against the Czarist Government in order to
create freedom
In 1918 the Baku Labour party organised Soviet Government at Baku and
proclaimed communism, which did great things in Baku for some months. But it
did not live very long because Soviet Government was abolished through the
treachery of Musawat party, Dashnagsagan party and Mensheviks, and the
leaders of communism such as Azizbegoff Shaumian, Chaparidz and some
twenty-six others were killed. Kazi Mahamad, Binyad Sardaroff, Bala Amu
Dadashoff, Amir Aslanoff, Mugtadi Aydinbegoff and Ali Beyramoff were shot
for being Liberals. This kind of treatment, however, created such anger among
the people that instead of discouraging them they were stimulated, to fight for
the Soviet Government. At last in 1920 on the 28th April, under the leadership
of Lenin and Stalin, Azarbaijanis, with the help of the Red Army, overthrew
Mosavatist capitalists and hoisted the flag of freedom.