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Lithuanians say they want to restore the independence they had between the world wars. Soviet dictator Josef Stalin absorbed Lithuania along with the two other Baltic states, Latvia and Estonia, in 1940 under a secret agreement with Nazi Germany...
...dilemma for Gorbachev is an excruciating one. He has been spearheading internal democratization while struggling to keep reform, especially in the Baltic States, from spinning out of control. Two weeks ago, the Lithuanian party declared its independence from Moscow and, to save itself, lined up with the republic's strong separatist movement. Earlier last month, the Lithuanian parliament voted to abolish the party's constitutionally guaranteed monopoly on power -- a move Kremlin leaders have been resisting on the national level. Just last week the Latvian parliament followed its neighbor in eliminating the Communist Party's unique leading role. Lithuanian party...
Secession, long a virtually taboo word in Soviet politics, has become the avowed aim of several nationalist movements. Although the Baltic states have been granted a high degree of economic autonomy, they were rebuked by the Supreme Soviet in November for passing laws claiming the right to decide which legislation enacted in Moscow would apply in their territory. A week later, Georgia passed the same law. Ukrainian nationalists say they will soon try for economic and possibly political autonomy...
...must to succeed. Certainly the imperative of maintaining order and preventing the breakup of the country is a large part of his reason for opposing the removal from the Soviet constitution of Article 6, which gives the Communist Party a monopoly on political power. A confrontation looms with the Baltic states over their intention to cancel Article 6 and declare their own communist parties independent. The Lithuanian party voted last week to split from Moscow and declared its intention to create "an independent, democratic Lithuanian state." One-party rule, Gorbachev says, is vital to the success of perestroika. He opposed...
...constitute the Soviet Union. Armenia and Azerbaijan are nearly at war with each other, Moldavia has been crippled by ethnically inspired strikes, Georgians are demanding an end to the "Soviet empire," and in Lithuania the Communist Party has abolished its own monopoly of power, the most striking sign of Baltic nationalism to date...