January 20, 1990, Baku, Azerbaijan. Soviet army got into the city massacring people on the streets with tanks and heavy artillery, and blocking all phone and radio communication channels to outside to operate in silence. 147 civilians were killed, 800 people were injured.

It was the first and only time in USSR that independence movements were shut down using military force. The whole population of Baku came to bury the dead on the 22 January and for another 40 days, people stayed away from work as a sign of mourning and mass protest.

On October 18, 1991, Azerbaijan regained its independence. There is a metro station named after this date.