Dissolution of the Soviet Union - Join with the Soviet Socialist Republic of Armenia

Time: Saturday Feb 20, 1988

Place: Stepanakert, Azerbaijan

Details: On February 20, 1988, after a week of growing demonstrations in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (the Armenian majority area within the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic), the Regional Soviet voted to secede and join with the Soviet Socialist Republic of Armenia.

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