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Dissolution of the Soviet Union

Join with the Soviet Socialist Republic of Armenia

Saturday Feb 20, 1988
Stepanakert, Azerbaijan

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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