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Baku pogrom and "Black January"

13 – 20 Jan 1990Key eventBaku

HumanitarianMilitaryPoliticalArmenia–Azerbaijan / Karabakh legacy

Anti-Armenian pogroms in Baku kill around ninety people and end the city's centuries-old Armenian community; days later Soviet troops storm Baku to crush the Popular Front, killing well over a hundred civilians.

Why it mattersA double trauma with opposite lessons: for Armenians, proof that Baku was unlivable; for Azerbaijanis, "Black January" made Moscow the enemy and independence inevitable. The Soviet centre had shown it could no longer protect anyone — only punish.

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Karabakh conflictMovement, pogroms and the Soviet collapse

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