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Azerbaijani classical writerSamadVurgun became another victim accused of having a “pro-Armenian position,” Moderator.az reports.

According to the information, the deceased writer and publicist RafiqTagi wrote an article dedicated to SamadVurgun, which was published in the Azerbaijani media in 2004. In the article, the author heavily criticizes SamadVurgun for calling the head of the Caucasian Bolsheviks,StepanShaumian, a “Caucasian eagle”who had an “iron heart.” Tagi called Vurgun “untalented” and also accused the Soviet writer of having a “pro-Armenian position” and of “exposing a miserable image of the Azerbaijanis.” 

“SamadVurgun is one of those, who voted with two hands for the Russian Empire’s policy of ‘divide and rule’. The poet Samadused to say, ‘Turkey and Turkish people are strangers for us.’ He writes the following about StepanShaumian in his poem ‘The 26th’:‘an iron heart beats in his chest.’ What will we do tomorrow or the day after tomorrow if an Armenian puts these naïve lines of our ‘most classical writer’ in our eyes? SamadVurgun called Rasulzade a ‘traitor’ and StepanShaumian – a ‘Caucasian eagle’,” Moderator.az cites RafiqTagi saying. 

Besides, according to the website, the writer was also heavily criticized by SoyluAtalna, a modern Azerbaijani “prominent thinker.” He accused Vurgun particularly of deceiving people with his “cosmopolitan views,” of propagating an “inferiority complex,” of representing the Azerbaijanis as people “throwing themselves at others’ feet,” as well as of “upbringing a defeatist spirit.”