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guage. The Kurdish branch of Shushinsky normal school prepared national shots, has adjusted release of
school textbooks. National schools have been opened, there was a newspaper «Soviet Kurdistan», broadcasts
in Kurdish language were conducted.
Thus, possibility for development of national culture of Kurds of Azerbaijan has opened. Successes of
the Soviet Kurds caused liking in foreign fellow tribesmen. Many of them in the name of the Soviet power
saw a personal security guarantee. After suppression All-kurdish national revolt in Northern (Turkish) Kur-
distan, for example, with 1924 for 1926 from Turkey to Soviet Union has illegally moved two thousand
families.
Free development of the Kurdish population in Azerbaijan proceeded not for long. In 1929 the Azerbai-
jan authorities have abolished «Red Kurdistan», liquidated Kurdish schools and the cultural centres. With a
view of assimilation of Kurds and change of national structure in «Red Kurdistan» the increase in the Azer-
baijan population was encouraged, at schools training was conducted only in the Azerbaijan language. That it
has occurred during the short historical period, incontestably testifies to the purposeful policy concerning
Kurds of an Azerbaijan management of that time. Besides, transition to a policy of assimilation of Kurds in
Azerbaijan has coincided with severe suppression of revolt of the Kurdish people in Turkey in 20–30th
years. During this period administrative-territorial reform in Azerbaijan has been spent and the district «Red
Kurdistan» is liquidated. As a result the considerable part of Kurds has lost the important national lines. The
Kurdish intelligence was dissolved among the Azerbaijan. The word «Kurd» in consciousness of the domi-
nating nation became offensive.
In its representation Kurds — illiterate, backward people, nomads. Many representatives of Kurdish in-
telligence have been compelled to refuse the national identity only that they could lose a work place, But,
nevertheless, the part of the Azerbaijan Kurds has kept national spirit and continues to struggle for the na-
tional rights, honor and advantage of the people. The stimulus to this struggle was given by a policy of reor-
ganization, democracy and publicity. The certificate to that is struggle for restoration of «Red Kurdistan», for
an official recognition of Kurds in Azerbaijan [5, 112].
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