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Why Washington hesitated to support Lithuania s independence 31 years ago – opinion

Why Washington hesitated to support Lithuania s independence 31 years ago – opinion
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Thirty-One Years Of Lithuanian Dreams – OpEd

Thirty-One Years Of Lithuanian Dreams – OpEd
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Search for the middle ground: Washington, Gulf War and Lithuanian independence

Why Washington hesitated to support Lithuania s independence 31 years ago – opinion Bradley Woodworth, Matthew Schmidt2021.03.11 08:00 Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and US President George H W Bush in July 1991 / AP Thirty-one years ago, on March 11, 1990, the Supreme Council of the Republic of Lithuania declared independence. As inevitable as it seems today, the United States was very far from supporting this outcome.  Moscow said the action was meaningless, and the administration of George H W Bush worried it could trigger the collapse of what it saw as a new international order made possible with Mikhail Gorbachev at the helm of the USSR. In March 1990, Lithuania’s Baltic neighbors likewise finally held free elections to their republic-level Supreme Soviets. A year later, on March 3, 1991, the Estonian and Latvian SSRs held referenda asking permanent residents if they were in favor of the “reestablishment” of independence and statehood as the Republic of Estonia an

Lithuanian border 30 years ago: lighting campfires for warmth, fearing Soviet attacks – interview

322 Lithuania s border guards after independence. / VSAT After declaring independence in March 1990, Lithuania’s newly-founded border guard service faced attacks by the Soviet forces, culminating in the Medininkai massacre that left seven officers dead.  In November 2020, the service marked its 30th anniversary. In an interview with LRT.lt, one of the first border guards, Almantas Laučius, recalls the first tense days spent by campfires, facing shootings and violence by the Soviet forces. Had you encountered dangerous situations during the first days of border protection? Sometimes passing cars would not stop and break through roadblocks. Various things happened, including during the bloody January events [the Soviet military crackdown in Vilnius on January 13, 1991, that left 14 people dead].

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