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Ironically, the country that probably has the least interest in cutting the economic ties that Moscow imposed in the late 1940s is Rumania, which under Nicolae Ceausescu was more hostile to the Kremlin than any other East bloc country. He so ruined the national economy that for years to come it may have little to export beyond small agricultural surpluses, and serious market reforms may take just as long. Now that the insane policy of exporting everything but the barest necessities has ended, however, the country will probably avoid the kind of collapse that threatens Poland, because Rumania's farm...
More aid to Rumania is on the way, and from a source not known for its largesse -- Moscow. Last week the Kremlin promised to supply Rumania with some of the oil and gas needed to fuel economic recovery. The gesture of goodwill was combined with a hastily arranged visit to Bucharest on Saturday by Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze. Moscow's solicitousness may be attributed to a desire to quell the discontent of ethnic Rumanians in the Soviet republic of Moldavia, a region Stalin annexed from Rumania in 1940. Now that Ceausescu is gone, the Kremlin has every reason...
Soviet officials have given a virtual guarantee they will not use force to keep Lithuania and its 3.7 million residents in the Soviet Union. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Gennady I. Gerasimov told the BBC last week the Kremlin has "only one tool" for preventing a breakup of the union...
...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 leader Algirdas Brazauskas organized the breach with Moscow to shore up credibility before local elections on Feb. 24. "Without these changes...
...crack in party solidarity so alarmed the Kremlin that it called an emergency session of the Central Committee to address the threat. Party conservatives demanded a tough response to discourage other communist parties from seceding. After two days of bitter but inconclusive debate, the plenum was temporarily suspended until Gorbachev returned from a visit to Lithuania to make a personal appeal to party leaders...