page_title: Javad Hakimli
section_title: Later Years
hierarchical_section_title: Javad Hakimli / Biography / Later Years
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of an elderly Javad Hakimli 'decades' after his involvement in the European theatre of World War II.
context_page_description: Senior Lieutenant Javad Hakimli was an Azerbaijani-Soviet guerrilla who commanded a Soviet POW battalion of the Yugoslav Partisans during World War II.
  He is most noted for being the commander of Mehdi Huseynzade, a Hero of the Soviet Union whose military exploits he recounted after the war.
context_section_description: In 1963, Javad published a book in Yerevan entitled ‘Intiqam’ (Revenge), about Mehdi Huseynzade’s military feats and the Partisan war in Yugoslavia.
  From 1989, he lived with his family in Baku, was a member of the Veterans Council and met with young people to share his war experiences.
  In an interview in 1998, "My character was very difficult from my youth," Javad Hakimli recollected, "I hardly met people, but Mehdi for some reason fell in love with me brotherly. He became attached to me with his heart and soul. Do you know how I protect it? He did not allow him to risk himself once more, every time he worried, worried when Mehdi was going to another task or subversive action. Sometimes he and I knew about his future diversionary acts. I frequently changed passwords, for example, today the password was ‘Sun over the Adriatic’, and tomorrow: ‘On the coast - a gusty wind’".
  In October 2004, Javad Hakimli celebrated his 90th birthday at a Baku restaurant amongst members of Mehdi Huseynzade's and his own family in addition to the Slovenian Consul in Baku, Borut Megushar who conveyed his congratulations on behalf of Slovenia for Javad's personal contributions to the war effort with greetings from the surviving Slovenian Partisans and veterans of the war. Javad Hakimli died in Baku on February 27, 2006.
caption: Elderly Javad Hakimli in post-World War II period
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