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Selected Secret Documents from Soviet Foreign Policy Documents Archives - 1919 to 1941Concentrated on 1st and 2nd WW Correspondence and Meetings related to Turkey, Balkans and Iran, with some additions from Afghanistan and India.
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Telegram of the government of the Azerbaijan SSR to the government of the grand national assembly of Turkey.
March 23, 1921
Admiring the heroic struggle of the Turkish people, who refused to submit to the violence of the victorious imperialists and did not slow down with criticism and weapons to prove the fragility of the ententeʹs plans in dividing the world, the Azerbaijani Soviet government was always eager to lend a hand of fraternal assistance to the Turkish people. However, an entente mercenary, the Menshevik government of Georgia, stood in the way of realizing this desire, which, implementing the ententeʹs plans for the Turkish people, invariably denied the Azerbaijani Soviet government the right to transit through Georgia to Turkey the liquid fuel that the Turkish people desperately need. But now, when the red banner of workers ʹand peasantsʹ power has hoisted over Georgia, the Azerbaijani Soviet government is getting the opportunity to prove in practice its ardent sympathy for the Turkish people and to provide them with all possible assistance. From Baku, with the assistance of Soviet Georgia, the first oil route to Kars is sent to the Turkish people, consisting of 30 oil tanks and 2 gasoline tanks, to which 8 kerosene tanks will be connected in Tiflis.
the Azerbaijani Soviet government deeply and sincerely believes that at the moment when the signing of the treaty in Moscow consolidates the commonwealth of Russia, this cradle of world liberation of workers, with revolutionary Turkey, this first aid of Soviet Azerbaijan to the Turkish people opens a new era of close communication of fraternal peoples along the historical paths of liberation of the east ...
Peopleʹs commissar for foreign affairs
D. Huseynov.