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Soviet Civil Unrest

Q. Mr. President, how serious a crisis is the nationalist rebellion in Azerbaijan for President Gorbachev, and what are the chances that he'll survive this test and the challenge from the Baltics?

The President. Well, I think the answer to your question unfolds every day. We don't really know. And it is serious. Gorbachev has always indicated a desire for peaceful change inside the Soviet Union, and I refer to what he said on the Baltics (სამი კვირის შემდეგ გორბაღოვმა ბალტიაშიც იგივე გაიმეორა - რა თბილისსა და ბაქოში). He's faced with an ethnic problem here and an internal problem of enormous dimensions. But I don't know, Terry [Terence Hunt, Associated Press]. I can't make predictions about that, but I know that I hope that he not only survives but stays strong, because I think it is in our interest that perestroika succeed and go forward.

Q. Could I just follow up on that? Do you think that he's gone too far in the crackdown in Baku?

The President. Anytime you have a use of force and the loss of life, we are concerned. But I don't believe I can judge that question right now.

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=18058

The West, fearful of undermining Gorbachev, was very circumspect in its reaction. The press reported on January 26 that President Bush said Gorbachev had done a "remarkable job" in handling the situation in Azerbaijan and that British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher told the House of Commons she had "great sympathy" for Gorbachev as "he tries to keep his nation from unravelling." The Washington Post reported on January 21 that the White House "expressed regret at the 'already heavy loss of life' in Azerbaijan, and called 'upon all involved to act with restraint in the use of force and to show respect for the rule of law and the rights of individuals concerned."

A more candid assessment of the West's reaction came in a January 21 Washington Post dispatch: "As ethnic strife and secessionist pressures buffet the Soviet Union, U.S. officials have been forced to acknowledge that the United States has a stake in President Mikhail Gorbachev's survival that now outweighs the old Cold War hope that the U.S. S. R. might fragment or fall apart." What the West failed to comprehend was that the events in Baku that January seven years ago were for Azerbaijan no different from what happened in Budapest, Hungary, in 1956 and Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1968.

While some in the West may have been fooled by Gorbachev's justifications, the Azerbaijani people were not fooled. They instinctively knew - as did the people of Hungary and Czechoslovakia - that what was happening was the destruction of their freedom. That's why thousands of Azerbaijanis surrounded Communist Party headquarters demanding the resignation of the republic's leadership. That's why thousands of Azerbaijanis in Turkey rallied near Turkey's border with Azerbaijan. That's why the Baku City Council demanded that Soviet troops be withdrawn. That's why even the Soviet legislature in Azerbaijan condemned the occupation as "unconstitutional" and threatened to call a referendum on secession unless Soviet troops were withdrawn within 48 hours. That's why there were reports of mutiny by Soviet Azerbaijani military cadets, and why Azerbaijani oil tankers blocked Soviet naval vessels from reaching the Baku harbor.

http://www.january20.net/hist2.htm

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