On this day 90 years ago, allied forces of young and independent Azerbaijani Democratic Republic and Turkish detachments under the command of Nuri Pasha liberated the city of Baku from the evil and bloody regime of Baku Soviet and its temporary successor Central Caspian Dictatorship. September 15th, 1918 became an important turning point in the short history of first Azerbaijani independence. This event was also important in our history because it brought an end to months of horrible violence and massacre brought upon Azeri people by the Bolshevik gangs of Stepan Shaumyan and his Armenian Dashnak allies as well as eser Mensheviks in Baku, Shemakha, Quba, and other Azeri towns. Organized Armenian gangs under Soviet and Dashnak slogans murdered 10,000 Azeri civilians just in the city of Baku on March 31st, 1918, thus starting the history of first Azeri genocide committed by Armenians.
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