WI: Armenian SSR Included Nakchivan and Nagorno-Karabakh

[Jackson Lennock]

In November of 1920, the USSR promised the following: As of today, the old frontiers between Armenia and Azerbaijan are declared to be non-existent. Mountainous Karabakh, Zangezur and Nakhchivan are recognised to be integral parts of the Socialist Republic of Armenia. In 1921, following a referendum, Nakhchivan was made an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of Soviet Armenia. Then in 1924, the Nakchivan ASSR was transferred to the Azeribaijan Soviet Socialist Republic.

What if Nakhchivan was an ASSRs of the Armenian SSR, and Zangezur, and "mountainous" Nagorno-Karabakh were part of the Armenian SSR outright?

Without the late/post-soviet emigration/expulsion of Azeris from Armenia plus the population of Nakhchivan, Armenia would be likely be about a fifth Azerbaijani.

 

[Ricardolindo]

In November of 1920, the USSR promised the following: As of today, the old frontiers between Armenia and Azerbaijan are declared to be non-existent. Mountainous Karabakh, Zangezur and Nakhchivan are recognised to be integral parts of the Socialist Republic of Armenia. In 1921, following a referendum, Nakhchivan was made an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of Soviet Armenia. Then in 1924, the Nakchivan ASSR was transferred to the Azeribaijan Soviet Socialist Republic.

What if Nakhchivan was an ASSRs of the Armenian SSR, and Zangezur, and "mountainous" Nagorno-Karabakh were part of the Armenian SSR outright?

Without the late/post-soviet emigration/expulsion of Azeris from Armenia plus the population of Nakhchivan, Armenia would be likely be about a fifth Azerbaijani.

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The problems with the Armenian SSR getting Nakhchivan are that it was majority Azerbaijani and that Turkey wanted a border with the Azerbaijani SSR.
Not to deviate from the subject of the thread, but I personally think that Stalin should have connected Mountainous Nagorno-Karabakh to the Armenian SSR via a narrow corridor in the Lachin area while connecting Nakhchivan to the Azerbaijani SSR via a narrow corridor through the Aras.

 

[TheIO]

The problems with the Armenian SSR getting Nakhchivan are that it was majority Azerbaijani and that Turkey wanted a border with the Azerbaijani SSR.
Not to deviate from the subject of the thread, but I personally think that Stalin should have connected Mountainous Nagorno-Karabakh to the Armenian SSR via a narrow corridor in the Lachin area while connecting Nakhchivan to the Azerbaijani SSR via a narrow corridor through the Aras.

I'm sure Turkey wanted a border with the Azerbaijani SSR.

But the USSR was a lot bigger than Turkey.

What's Turkey gonna do about it?

 

[Ricardolindo]

I'm sure Turkey wanted a border with the Azerbaijani SSR.

But the USSR was a lot bigger than Turkey.

What's Turkey gonna do about it?

The Soviet Union wanted good relations with Turkey, though, which is why they were so generous towards them. In the Treaty of Kars, Turkey even got Igdir/Surmali which had never been Ottoman and was an integral part of Eastern Armenia.

 

[Japhy]

What's Turkey gonna do about it?

Not collaborate in slicing up Armenia.

 

[Roger II]

I feel like the problem here is soviet nationalities policy somehow