Azerbaijan"s contribution to the anti-fascist coalition

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-