The Elimination of the Formal Independence of the Azerbaijan SSR. On April 28, 1920 the formal creation of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic was proclaimed as an independent, but actually it became toy in the hands of Soviet Russia. Russian leaders did not hide that they considered Azerbaijan not independent republic, but only a province of Russia, and they considered Baku primary fuel base of Russia and declared that again and again in official meetings.
On September 30, 1920, Azerbaijan SSR signed “military and economic alliance” with Soviet Russia, which actually was an unequal treaty. According to the humiliating “agreement” Russia and Azerbaijan are closely tied to the military and financial alliance (article 1); the governments of Russia and Azerbaijan combined their military authorities and military Commands, the national economy, foreign trade and supplies, financial institutions, rail transport and postal-telegraph authorities in the shortest time (Article 2). In addition to the treaty more 6 agreements were signed: !
After the establishment of Soviet power in Armenia in November of 1920 and in Georgia in February of 1921, Soviet Russia started a new plan, first, to merge three Transcaucasian republics into one union, and then include this union with Soviet Russia. In 1921 the first steps were taken in this direction, abolishing customs and border posts, combined department of foreign trade and rail transport. On March 12, 1922, the treaty of alliance was signed between the Republics of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia and so, the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (TSFSR) was created. On December 3-14, 1922, Baku hosted the first Congress of Soviets in the Transcaucasia. With the creation of the CEC TSFSR and adoption of the Constitution, the process of the formation of the union state, the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, was completed. It became an end of the formal independence of Azerbaijan. Unification of these three Soviet republics in the federation, the creation of a common economic space, and the common budget was not beneficial for Azerbaijan. Weak economy of Georgia and Armenia began to use Azerbaijan’s rich natural resources and gain the opportunity for rapid growth. The Soviet Russia after the establishment of TSFSR further accelerated the integration processes, and on December 30, 1922, the RSFSR, Ukrainian SSR, the Belorussian SSR and TSFSR united, creating a centralized state, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in Moscow on the 1st Congress of Soviets.
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