A letter from Bagirov to Stalin and Molotov about public opinion of Qavam’s trip to Moscow and the Iranian-Soviet negotiations. It also requests advice about establishing a bank in Iranian Azerbaijan.
April 14, 1946
Telegram from Bagirov to Stalin about the situation in Southern Azerbaijan
Moscow
CC VKPB to Cde. Stalin
After our telegram about the situation in Southern Azerbaijan not only new facts of beatings of active members of the People’s Party and pro-Soviet Iranians have been registered, but instances of beatings and humiliations of individual Soviet citizens have taken place.
On 30 March two policeman together with two Iranians beat engineer Yakishenko, who worked in our military unit in Tabriz. On 8 April a group of hooligans headed by the proprietor of a café in Tabriz committed violence on a group of children of our workers. Two boys, one of them the son of the General Consul Matveyev, were beaten and the young woman with them, the daughter of Captain Novikov, was raped by seven men.
Similar outrageous facts directed at discrediting our representatives are being organized by reactionary elements not without the participation of foreign intelligence services. Evidently several of our consulate workers do not understand this.
By arrangement with Tyulenev the criminals have been arrested and kept under guard in our military commandant’s office in Tabriz.
In order to investigate the fact of the gang rape in every way I would consider it advisable to deliver those arrested to Soviet Dzhul’fa in order that the investigation be conducted under special observation.
Request your orders.
Secretary of the Tsekapart [Translator’s note: presumably “Party CC”] of Azerbaijan Bagirov
14. IV-46
No 8/sh
A telegram from Bagirov to Stalin about violent attacks on Soviet citizens and pro-Soviet Iranians in Iranian Azerbaijan.
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GAPPOD, f.1, op.89. Obtained for CWIHP by Jamil Hasanli and translated for CWIHP by Gary Goldberg.
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