As the Soviet power consolidated in Russia, Russia began rebuilding its borders.

The XI Red Army

units, reinforced in the northern borders of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, were given
appropriate orders and orders to carry out the occupation plan of the republic. Defenders of the
Soviet state within the Azerbaijani Parliament and the uprising that the Armenian-Dashnak
separatists raised in Karabakh accelerated the collapse of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic. The
Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, which had lived for 23 months, was overthrown by the XI Red
Army's bayonets, and the Soviet power in Northern Azerbaijan was established. This led to a new
stage in Karabakh conflict.

From this point of view, the notion of "Nagorno-Karabakh" began to be of political interest, not just
geographically. After the Bolsheviks seized power in northern Azerbaijan, this concept began to be of
administrative-political significance, becoming one of the key concepts in the Russian political lexicon
in the Azerbaijani-Armenian relations and its interference. At the same time, geographical coverage
of Nagorno-Karabakh is also changing. Nevertheless, according to A.Skibitsky, "... The Garabagh
Plateau acquired autonomy in 1923 and was briefly referred to as Nagorno-Garabagh within the
autonomous Nagorno-Karabakh or the new borders of Azerbaijan.

Armenians who did not succeed in the 1920-30s were re-activated after the 1941-1945 war. In
November 1945, the Secretary of the Central Committee of the Armenian Communist (Bolshevik)
Party, Gr. Arutinov, appealed to I.Stalin and raised the issue of inclusion of the Nagorno-Karabakh
Autonomous Region of Azerbaijan into the Armenian SSR under Garabagh Province. The text of the
appeal was sent by the secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist (Bolshevik) Party,
G.Malenkov, on November 28, 1945 to the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the
Communist (Bolshevik) Party, M.Babirov. Malenkov offered him to express his opinion on the issue
raised by the Central Committee of the Communist (Bolshevik) Party of Armenia. Bagirov reported on
this to Moscow on December 10, 1945.

However, the Armenians did not give up the separatist activity on Nagorno-Karabakh. In the 1960s,
when the anti-Turkish campaign in the USSR strengthened, they again raised this problem. The
"petition" signed by 45,000 people on the annexation of Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia in 1965 was
presented to Moscow, on the basis of which the secretariat of the Central Committee of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union had ordered Armenia and Azerbaijan to do so. Armenian
separatists believe that the secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet
Union M.Suslov was prevented. With the courageous and determined position of Heydar Aliyev in
Azerbaijan's leadership in 1969, the separatist initiatives of Armenians and their "activity" at the
Center for a long time did not produce any results. During the adoption of the 1977 Constitution of
the USSR, Armenians also tried to solve this problem with the same persistence. But this time they
did not achieve anything. Thanks to H. Aliyev's rule, his leadership in Azerbaijan (1969- 1982) and the
USSR leader (1982-1987) were not allowed to revive the intentions of the Armenian separatists.

Conclusion

Garabagh events started in November 1987. After the abolition of Heydar Aliyev from the USSR in
October, academician Abel Aganbekyan demanded that the Nagorno-Karabakh be unified to
Armenia. Jahangir Najafov, a former adviser to the chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Azerbaijani
SSR, made the following statement at a press conference at the Sputnik International Press Center.

According to Najafov, the demolition of the Azerbaijani part of the USSR-Iran border on December
31, 1989 was a characteristic event.
"On December 15, the USSR Supreme Soviet discussed the declaration of a state of emergency in
Nagorno-Karabakh on January 15, when people led by Nemat Panahov dismantled the USSR-Iran
border on December 31, 1989. A group of people could break the USSR border? A state of emergency
in Nagorno-Karabakh was declared a crime, when Mikhail Gorbachev declared a state of emergency
in Nagorno-Karabakh violated the USSR constitution, "he said.

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