Mammad Amin Rasulzadeh is perceived in Azerbaijan as a father of Azerbaijani nationalism, the founder of the First Azerbaijani Republic. Rasulzadeh is considered a political father and ideologist by the Azerbaijani main opposition parties, particularly, ''Musavat'' and ''Popular Front''. Although Rasulzadeh is a sourse of great inspiration for the Azerbaijani society, some episodes from his biography are intentionally ignored in Azerbaijan, while sometimes those episodes are openly rejected. This particularly referes to Rasulzadeh's close cooperation with Nazi Germany during the Second World War.