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ACTIVITIES OF SECRET INDEPENDENCE FIGHTERS IN THE EARLY YEARS OF THE SOVIET REGIME
Received: 03-Feb-2026 Accepted: 17-Feb-2026 Published: 07-Apr-2026 Read PDF Download PDF
Asif RUSTAMLI
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Abstract
During the republican period, more than 60 of our national press became exemplary historical chronicles, highlighting and immortalizing the problems of independence of Azerbaijan, the ideology of freedom, and the socio-political mission on their pages. Of them, only the "Istiglal" newspaper continued its conspiratorial activities for about three years after the aggression of the Russian military occupation forces against the country. In the post-republican period, the "Istiglal" printing house can also be called a mobile printing house. Because, during its operation, it was forced to change its address four times to avoid persecution and surveillance. From the documents we have obtained, it is clear that the leadership of the national independence movement against the Soviet regime, especially Mirza Bala Muhammadzadeh, intended to move the printing house to the settlements of Bayil, Keshla, Turkan or Mashtaga in order to ensure the safety of the "Istiglal" newspaper and the people working there, but could not achieve the opportunity to realize this idea. Although the Chekists, who had been searching for M.B. Muhammadzadeh since June 1923, could not find him, they were able to discover the printing house of the "Istiglal" newspaper, which can be called the national "Nina" of the resistance movement, as a result of a neighbor's written betrayal to the police. The investigators of the Federal Security Service used the "Istiglal" newspaper and the underground printing house as a reason for mass arrests in criminal cases against the national independence activists, and achieved their most severe punishments, including their exile to the Solovki Islands - "Ice Hell" (A. Abid).

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