On January 19, 2019, “Round-Table Discussions on “January 20” Tragedy and the Independence of Azerbaijan” were held at Azerbaijan University of Languages organized by the Research Laboratory of the Azerbaijani Studies. At first the memory of the martyrs of the tragedy of January 20 was recalled. Then a video-rollick with the speech and analysis of Heydar Aliyev, national leader of the Azerbaijani people, at the embassy of Azerbaijan in Moscow, concerning the events on January 20, 1990, as well as issues raised for the Soviet government, was demonstrated. Rector of Azerbaijan University of Languages Academician Kamal Abdulla noted that the idea sounded in the video-rollick by Heydar Aliyev was his protest and political accusation against the administration of a big empire called the USSR: “Imagine, when his protest sounded in the embassy of Azerbaijan in Moscow, tanks were being driven in the streets of Baku. People feared to appear in streets. The people had already given its martyrs. The martyrs had already said their words at the cost of their lives in the fight for freedom of Azerbaijan. When he made that speech, he had already been dismissed from all his post. He was dismissed, because he could obstacle them to commit those crimes, to pave the way for the transfer of Garabagh to Armenia easily. Such a situation had emerged not only in Azerbaijan, but there was an awakening in other Soviet republics, too. Additional forces were sent to Azerbaijan in order to teach the leaders and participants of liberation movements, to make them withdraw”. Rector Kamal Abdulla spoke of the processes ongoing in other countries in those days, too: “If the martyrs had not expressed their protests on the account of their lives in Azerbaijan, the other republics of the USSR would have the same destiny. Azerbaijan buried its martyrs with great tribute. I remember, despite the state of emergency all people came to see off the martyrs to their last abode. Among the martyrs was Ulvi Bunyad-zade, my student. He was a young man with a smile on his face all the time and very sincere. He was writing beautiful poems, coming to me and we were discussing his poems. The youth like Ulvi sacrificed their lives for their people without any hesitation, without thinking a second. It all tells of the grandeur of the nation. History teaches us that own died for the motherland and now it is our turn to be on guard of the motherland, it is our common cause”.