"In order to answer this question, I should go into a little bit of history and just explain to the people who are watching us how it happened that Azerbaijan was divided into two parts. So it was done in the first months of the Sovietization of Azerbaijan," said Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in an interview with Al-Arabiya TV channel, while answering the reporter's question "Mr. President. In addition, I would like to know that one of main issues arising from the agreement was just to make Azerbaijani dream come true - the realization of the Zangezur corridor or we call it a Trump Route. Why Trump route has come to the table. In addition, which stage will this Trump Route promise for Azerbaijan to undergo. Of course, you will have to also support it. Will this corridor play an important strategic role between Azerbaijan and Europe?" APA reports.
"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. In November 1920, just several months after that, the Soviet Russian government decided to take Zangezur — what we call Western Zangezur — from Azerbaijan and give it to Armenia. That’s how Azerbaijan became divided into two: the mainland and Nakhchivan, with Western Zangezur in between," President Ilham Aliyev noted.
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