Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan, a member of the Russian Communist (Bolshevik) Party (RCP (B)), told the Central Committee of the RCP (B) and the chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, that Karabakh never had relations with Armenia. reported not to be.
The document dated May 22, 1919 states:
"The Dashnaks, the agents of the Armenian government, are trying to annex Karabakh to Armenia, but it would be for the people of Karabakh to be deprived of their livelihood in Baku and to be tied to Yerevan, which has never had anything to do with it."
At the fifth congress, Armenian peasants decided to recognize and join Soviet Azerbaijan.
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