Aliyev honors WWII heroes
President Ilham Aliyev attended a solemn event held in Baku on
Friday to mark the 65th anniversary of the victory over fascism in
World War II.
President Aliyev laid a wreath to the monument honoring Hazi Aslanov, a great military leader of the Great Patriotic War, major-general of tank troops and two-time Hero of the Soviet Union, and paid tribute to the memory of the great personalities that fame Azerbaijan. Aliyev also congratulated the war veterans gathering by the monument on Victory Day.
A guard of honor passed in front of the commander-in-chief under the sounds of the solemn march.
641,000 Azerbaijanis were involved in the Patriotic War from 1941-45, of whom about half fell in the battles. Over 130 were named Heroes of the Soviet Union for their courage.
The Azerbaijani people also spared no efforts to advance the Soviet army’s cause on the rear front. Azerbaijan supplied 70 percent of the oil produced in the USSR during the war. Fuel provided by Baku oilworkers was used for the overwhelming majority of the tanks and planes, which were crucial for attaining victory over Nazi Germany.*
President Aliyev laid a wreath to the monument honoring Hazi Aslanov, a great military leader of the Great Patriotic War, major-general of tank troops and two-time Hero of the Soviet Union, and paid tribute to the memory of the great personalities that fame Azerbaijan. Aliyev also congratulated the war veterans gathering by the monument on Victory Day.
A guard of honor passed in front of the commander-in-chief under the sounds of the solemn march.
641,000 Azerbaijanis were involved in the Patriotic War from 1941-45, of whom about half fell in the battles. Over 130 were named Heroes of the Soviet Union for their courage.
The Azerbaijani people also spared no efforts to advance the Soviet army’s cause on the rear front. Azerbaijan supplied 70 percent of the oil produced in the USSR during the war. Fuel provided by Baku oilworkers was used for the overwhelming majority of the tanks and planes, which were crucial for attaining victory over Nazi Germany.*
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