The Baku Congress, which united the peoples of the East against imperialism ⭐️ On September 5, 1920, a session of the Congress of the Peoples of the East was held in Baku, dedicated to the national and colonial questions. The congress itself, held on September 1–8 on the initiative of the Communist International, gathered about 1,900 representatives of Asia and the Middle East and became the first such large-scale forum of the anti-imperialist movement. The meeting was a continuation of the ideas of the October Revolution: Soviet Russia not only proclaimed the right of the oppressed to self-determination, but also made the struggle against colonialism part of its international policy. 🔥 For decades, the European elites divided the East among themselves, exported its wealth and profited from the back-breaking labour of the subjugated peoples. But the era of unrestrained exploitation was drawing to a close. In Baku, representatives of workers', peasants', communist and national liberation movements asserted the right to determine their own destiny and united in the struggle against imperialism and colonial domination — for freedom, equality and independence. #SOVINTERN_date #Hub_Asia ⭐️ Moscow Network Hub of SOVINTERN