Soviet Turkey

Submitted by Ianus (Poland), Apr 6, 2009 at 18:07

Hi, Licinia!

Thanks for your nice comment ! I like what you wrote. There is but just a little inaccuracy, if I may call it so.

> Lenin recognized his fellow genocidaire Kamel Mustafa's Turkey after Turks completed the genocide against the Christians - all 3 million of them -<

In fact the Lenin-Kemal pact was signed before the Greek genocide was over. As early as autumn 1919 Kemal tried to send a letter to Lenin but there was no way to do that because of the Russian civil war and chaos. It was only on 26.04.1920 -on the third day after the opening of the Grand National Assembly - that a new letter of Kemal was dispatched with a high-ranking Turkish delegation to Moscow. Kemal asked for diplomatic recognition and urgent military and finacial help. On 2.06.1920 the diplomatic relations were established between Lenin's Russia and Kemal's regime. The Soviet embassy in Ankara was at that timet he only foreign diplomatic body in Ankara ! Kemal and Lenin divided dashnakist Armenia. Kemal started his war against Armenia and after terror and massacres imposed the 'peace' treaty in Alexandroupolis on the tiny republic (24.09-2.12.1920). Kars, Artvin and Ardagan were annexed to Turkey. The Armenian army reduced to 1500 men and occupied by the Soviets. In exchanged he gave up any Turkish claims over Azerbaijan ( which was enlarged by Nakhichevan) and Batumi.

After the Treaty of Friendship and Brotherhood between Soviet Russia and Kemalist Turkey had been signed on 16.03.1921 Kemal could concentrate on his jihad against the Greeks. The Soviets had given him 10 mln gold roubles and huge military equipment. It's how he won the fateful battle on the Sakharya, some 40 km west of Ankara.

But to be fair, the alliance wasn't undisturbed. Kemal didn't mind negotiating with the French or Italian or American "imperialists". He played one against the other and the Soviets grew uneasy observing his tricks. They started distrusting him, remembered the young Turks who beagn as liberals and ended asthe worst reactionaries and Germany's allies. They tried to warn the Greeks. But it was too late to save Smyrna and Hellenism in Asia Minor. The fanaticized hordes of Ghazi (=jihadist) Musfa Kemal Pasha using Soviet, French and Italian military political and moral aid carried out the Greek genocide with impunity.

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