On 23Dec.1947,Stalin signed a resolution by the Council of Ministers of the USSR on the resettlement of Azerbaijani kolkhoz members and other Azerbaijanis from the Armenian SSR to the lowlands of the Kur & Araz rivers.On 10Mar.1948,a further resolution on resettlement was signed. 
Textual study of the #resolutions by the Council of Ministers of the #USSR shows that they had complete disregard for #human and civil #rights. #Azerbaijanis were removed, not from certain territories, as stated, but from the whole of #Armenia.
It becomes clear that the aim was to oust all #Azerbaijanis from #Armenia. According to the last, 11th, Article of the #resolution dated 23 December 1947, it was intended to settle foreign #Armenians in Armenia in place of the deported #Azerbaijanis.
From 1948-1953, when the #deportation was implemented (after Stalin’s death this process was halted) about 150,000 #Azerbaijanis were expelled from the #Armenian SSR. All the #property, history and cultural #monuments belonging to these #people were left in the Armenian SSR.
The deportation of #Azerbaijanis from the 🇦🇲SSR from 1948-1953 was one of the harshest episodes in the history of Soviet deportations taking place at that time (#Koreans in 1937;#Germans at the end of 1941 -1942;#Poles in November 1942,#Crimean #Tatars on 18 May 1944 and others).
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