Polish Ledinski and Azerbaijani Alimardan Topchubashov founded a special group together in the Duma to struggle for the autonomy of Poland and Azerbaijan . When Mammed Amin Rasulzade founded Azerbaijan Democratic Republic in 1918 , which was the first secular and democratic republic in the Muslim world , the first chief of staff of the national army became Polish general Maciej Sulkiewicz . It is also notable that Rasulzade went to Poland in 1938 and he met his second wife Wanda who was a niece of Polish statesman Józef Piłsudski . During the Katyn massacre , Hamid Mahammadzadeh , an ethnic Azeri member of the Polish Officer Corps , was among 22,000 Polish nationals shot down by the NKVD , the Soviet secret police , in 1940
Katyn massacre
Katyn massacre
Azerbaijan–Poland relations