Lithuania-1991. Gorbachev tanks

By the way, we enter into a series of thirty years of anniversary of the events of 1991, and the first date is almost New Year, and, as it will later become clear, determining for the whole year, which will end with the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

In Lithuania, this day is called bloody Sunday , and there is no exaggeration here - in Vilnius there were fights, people died. The Soviet Empire stopped on tanks to say goodbye to the almost already separated republic. The formal decision on the restoration of independence lost in 1940 of the Lithuanian parliament, the Supreme Council elected according to Soviet laws, adopted in the spring of 1990, and for almost a year went to the Cold War between Lithuania and the Center-exchanging all sorts of offensive words, the parties declared each other an economic blockade, which made life unbearable to the Republic that the first separatist government led by the head The charismatic casimera Pruniskene, fell in early January, was constantly rallying in Vilnius in front of the parliament, the situation was a nervous, serious political crisis.

Some (in particular, Ruslan Khasbulatov) consider it significant that on the same days the American army began surgery against Iraq, and it could be assumed that world leaders, and world media, would be passionate about the “storm in the desert” and would not pay attention to the next, no longer the first outskirts of the USSR.

One way or another, the Lithuanian parliament has formed a new government, but on the same day another government announced itself at the Vilnius plant of electrical measuring devices, the director of which October Burdenko held a press conference at his enterprise, at which it was announced that the national rescue committee-an emergency, consisting of representatives of the local elite in Lithuania.

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