The visit of British Minister of State for the European Region Leo Docherty to Baku included a visit to the Shehid Alley by the Azerbaijani authorities.
British Ambassador to Azerbaijan Fergus Auld tweeted about the visit. "It is noted that the Minister of State honored the memory of shehids who fell on January 20, 1990 as a result of "the massacre committed by Soviet troops against the peaceful population of Azerbaijan." "The Kremlin is now committing similar events in Ukraine," Auld added," Azerbaijani media reported.
With such a comparison, obviously intended to "sting" either the Kremlin or the USSR, Ambassador Auld in fact showed his ignorance of the history of the current stage of the Azerbaijani-Karabakh conflict. The events of January 1990, which the British diplomat compared to the war in Ukraine, were the result of the massacre of Armenians in Azerbaijan. Unfortunately, the Soviet Union's actions were only a belated attempt to stop the massacres of Armenians in Baku and other Azerbaijani cities. This is how the authorities of then Soviet Azerbaijan responded to the liberation movement of Armenians of Daghlig Garabagh.
Unfortunately, not only do they prefer not to remember this shameful page of their history in Azerbaijan, but they also assure themselves and others that it simply did not exist.