During World War II, 63 new enterprises were built in Azerbaijan, more than 100 kinds of petroleum products were produced, 17 of which on the basis of high-octane gasoline, developed by the laboratory of Academician Yusif Mamedaliyev.
More than 80% of oil and fuel in 1941-45 USSR received from Baku. Cartridges were produced in the capital and on its outskirts, shells for the "Katyusha" and fighting airplanes Utochkina and Yakovlev: total of 130 items of arms and ammunition.
Residents of the country delivered in support of the front 320 million rubles in cash, nearly a ton of silver, 15 kg of gold, bought long-term government bonds in the amount of 250 million rubles, etc.
These and other figures were mentioned in the speech of professor, doctor of historical sciences, Mais Amrakhov, at the two-day international symposium on "The role of Azerbaijan in World War II and the prevention of Holocaust in the Caucasus", organized by the "Society Azerbaijan-Europe" and the French organization Yahad in Unum.
According to the reporter, the role of Azerbaijan in the fighting and in the rear part of the anti-fascist coalition is invaluable. More than 680,000 conscripts with a total population of 3.4 million, were sent to the front.
Approximately 340,000 Azerbaijanis died in the battlefields from the North Caucasus to Berlin. Many military hospitals located in almost all regions of the country, help to replenish half million soldiers and officers.
In addition, Azerbaijan has given the antifascist coalition legendary people, including a General of tank troops, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Hazi Aslanov. Unfortunately, the government has not always been true to the famous warriors. Then the Italian Communist leader Palmiro Togliatti told about the merits of a partisan, Hero of the Soviet Union, Mehdi Huseynzade, to the then Secretary General of the CPSU, Khrushchev; told the Italian Communist leader Palmiro Togliatti, the French President Charles de Gaulle told the Secretary General, Brezhnev, about Ahmediyye Jabrailov.
Unfair judicial decisions were taken about them and many thousands Azerbaijanis who fought against the Nazis, they were sent to camps. -17D-
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