The false national policy by the USSR did not begin and end with Crimea. After Crimea, such territorial exchanges took place several times in different regions of the USSR, especially in Central Asia. This false national policy” filled the territory of the Central Asian region not with “delayed action mines” but with “cluster bombs”.
Although the USSR pursued this policy mainly in the Central Asian region, the first consequence of this policy was the transfer of the Zangezur district of the Azerbaijan SSR to the Armenian SSR in 1923. The then-leader of the USSR, Joseph Stalin, was jealous of both Ataturk and Lenin due to their friendship. This jealousy resulted in Türkiye’s accession to NATO.
This jealousy also led to the transfer to Armenia of the Zangezur region, whose population was 80% ethnic Azerbaijanis. Historically, the Zangezur region was the territory of Azerbaijan and was never Armenian land.
Such mistakes caused by the USSR’s national policy need to be corrected. The Central Asian region is currently experiencing new developments. The strategic stability that the former Kazakh president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, and the late Uzbek president, Islam Karimov, created in the region is now giving way to other policies. China’s involvement in the Central Asian region will greatly accelerate this process.
Mubariz Ahmadoglu
AzVision.az
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