Word: azerbaijan
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...exception omitted by Dulles: the 1946 withdrawal of Red armies from Iran's Azerbaijan province after determined insistence...
...behavior interested the colonel; ten years before. Ali had resigned his commission, saying that "the army is rotten through and through"; since then he had held influential, behind-the-scenes jobs in the Red Tudeh Party. In 1946, Ali was liaison man in Teheran for the short-lived Azerbaijan Soviet republic. Knowing all this, Colonel Sepahpur was suddenly curious to know the contents of Ali's worn suitcase. The colonel grabbed and hefted it. "This suitcase seems very heavy for a sick man to carry," the colonel grunted...
...Russians-Czarist or Communist-given their Persian neighbors anything but trouble. In the past half-century, they have invaded the country six times, looted its Caspian caviar and its Treasury. Only the collective wrath of the infant U.N. made the Russians desist from setting up a little soviet in Azerbaijan province right after World War II. A year ago, in the last days of Mossadegh, the Communist Tudeh Party almost took over Iran. After all this, to Teheran's amazement and consternation, Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Lavrentiev last month promised a "great Russian favor": the return of 300 Iranians detained...
...Ousted in Azerbaijan: Premier Mir Dzhafar Bagirov, one of four alternate members of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. This was the highest-ranking arrest since Beria...
...Stalin, Beria was born in the Transcaucasian state of Georgia. The record says that he came of a poor peasant family in the Sukhum region. At 18, he became a member of the Russian Social Democratic (Bolshevik) Party. He worked underground, was jailed by the post-Czarist government of Azerbaijan, released on the plea of Russian Ambassador Kirov, after which he joined the Cheka (secret police) and took an active part in overthrowing the governments of the Transcaucasian republics and their forcible incorporation in the Soviet Union...