Azerbaijan People's Government آذربایجان میللی حکومتی | |||||||||
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1945–1946 | |||||||||
Anthem: Yaşa, yaşa Azərbaycan! "Long Live Azerbaijan!" | |||||||||
Status | Puppet state of the Soviet Union[1][2] | ||||||||
Capital | Tabriz | ||||||||
Common languages | Azerbaijani | ||||||||
Government | Marxist-Leninist one-party state | ||||||||
President | |||||||||
• 1945–46 | Ja'far Pishevari | ||||||||
Historical era | Cold War | ||||||||
• Established | 20 November 1945 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 12 December 1946 | ||||||||
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Today part of | Iran |
The Azerbaijan People's Government (Azerbaijani: آذربایجان میللی حکومتی - Azərbaycan Milli Hökuməti; Persian: حکومت خودمختار آذربایجان) was a short-lived unrecognized secessionist state[3][4] in northern Iran from November 1945 to December 1946. Like the unrecognized Republic of Mahabad, it was a puppet state of the Soviet Union.[1][2] Established in Iranian Azerbaijan, the Azerbaijan People's Government capital was the city of Tabriz. It was headed by an ethno-separatist and communist government led by the Azerbaijani Democratic Party,[5] which also followed a pan-Turkist discourse.[6] Its establishment and demise were a part of the Iran crisis, an early event in the Cold War.
As a result, the People's Republic of Azerbaijan and the Kurdish People's Republic (the Republic of Mahabad), two short-lived Soviet puppet states, were set up late in 1945...
In December the Democratic Party of Azerbaijan, announced the establishment of an autonomous state of Azerbaijan, and at the same time the Russians set up another puppet state, the Kurdish Republic of Mahabad, also in Azerbaijan.