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Objective Baku: How Hitler Lost the Battle for Oil receives UK premiere in the Palace of Westminster
On 17 October – less than one month before the Remembrance Day commemorations across the UK – a landmark documentary about a lesser-known battle of the war was shown to a packed audience of over 100 multinational Londoners in Committee Room 12 of the House of Lords in the UK Parliament. The screening was organised by Mark Menzies MP, Vice-Chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Azerbaijan, for which The European Azerbaijan Society (TEAS) provides the secretariat. Over 100 Azerbaijanis, military historians and multinational friends of Azerbaijan were in attendance. The event followed the European premiere at the Musée de l’Armée in the Hôtel National des Invalides in Paris. Using digitally restored and colourised unique archival footage, the film details the bravery of the Azerbaijanis who participated in the war as part of the Soviet army to combat Fascism, with some 400,000 losing their lives and half a million being wounded. Altogether, 128 Azerbaijanis had the title Hero of the Soviet Union conferred upon them. This documentary film entitled Objective Baku: How Hitler Lost the Battle for Oil, was produced by Louis Vaudeville for CC&C Productions, in collaboration with Baku Media Centre, with the support of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, and directed by Robert Mugnerot.
Consul General Aghayev speaks at Fullerton College of California
On October 16, 2017 the Fullerton College of California hosted a lecture by Azerbaijan’s Consul General in Los Angeles Nasimi Aghayev. After the introductory remarks by Dr. Reza Yeganehshakib, the College’s Dean of Social Sciences Dr. Jorge Gamboa and Chair of History Department Dr. Anu Mande spoke of the importance of educating the younger generation about global affairs and various strategically important regions of the world today, and thanked, in this regard, the Consul General for returning to the College after his initial lecture that took place in 2015.
