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Bloody January (Bloody January, 20 January) is the name given to the events that occurred during the night of 19 January 1990 to 20 January 1990, when a Soviet military force of 26,000 troops intervened in Baku and several other cities of Azerbaijan. During the intervention, armored vehicles entered Baku from five directions; unarmed civilians were shot at; tanks and heavy armored vehicles were driven into civilian crowds; and ambulances and passenger buses were fired upon. On 19 January 1990, t