In the interview to the Moscow newspaper «Moskovski Komsomolec» the first and the last President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev has also referred to the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.
«Moscow was going to allot one billion rubles for the development of the Nagorno Karabakh the population of which was 180 thousand. Moscow was going to make Baku restore all the dotations, to re-establish relations with Armenia and to give Karabakh the status of an autonomous republic. But at that time the Supreme Council of Armenia announced that Karabakh is an inseparable part of Armenia. What was I supposed to do? Was I to send an army to Armenia? I think the separation of Karabakh from Azerbaijan was in many cases justified, » Mikhail Gorbachev said.
Asked the question how a compromise can be reached the USSR President answered that it was possible only in USSR. «Exercising force would not be fruitful. Chechnya is a good example of that». When the journalist told him that nevertheless under his reign armed forces were sent to Tbilisi, Baku and Vilnius, Mikhail Gorbachev corrected that forces were sent only to Baku, “The Baku cases were completely out of control. The Supreme Council and the Central Committee were not operating, a 200-km part of the state border was destroyed, and the local organizations were attacked. I sent Eugenie Primakov and Andrey Girenko there. They reported about the situation created and offered to declare an emergency and send armed forces there. I still think thus we managed to prevent heavier bloodshed”.
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