BOLSHEVIKS SACRIFICED PART OF ARMENIA FOR BAKU SAKE IN 1921
PanARMENIAN.Net
01.04.2006 22:23 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The initial draft of Moscow Treaty provided for far
less concessions to Turkey in the segment of Armenia, specialist on
Turkic peoples, Director of the Institute of Asian and African Studies,
Moscow State University Professor Mikhail Mayer stated in an interview
with a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter. In his words, People’s Commissar on
Foreign Affairs of Soviet Russia Georgi Chicherin proposed to leave
the territory of Western Armenia, including Mush and Kars, to Armenia.
“However, the oil factor interfered with the matter.
Bolsheviks resorted to everything to keep the Baku-Astrakhan
crossing. The union with Kemalist Turkey against Western-leaning
Armenia was favorable both to Bolsheviks and Turks, who got huge
arms and gold. Unfortunately, Armenia became a change card in a big
oil game. Bolsheviks were guided by the principle: anything can be
sacrificed for Baku’s sake,” Mayer underscored.
The Russian specialist on Turkic peoples remarked that the genuine
date of singing the Moscow Treaty is not 16, but 18 March. “Just on
March 18 the parties arrived at a final wording of the Treaty items,
according to which most of Armenia was cut off,” he said.