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...trying to vote themselves out of the U.S.S.R. three weeks ago, the members of the Lithuanian parliament were making three statements: Here is what our people want; here is what we deserve; here is how to get it. They were right, right and wrong...
...none other than TASS, the official Soviet news agency and long an uncritical government mouthpiece. In a report from Lithuania last month, for example, TASS cited a description of that republic's "1940 joining of the Soviet Union as a 'violation by outside force' of the sovereignty of the Lithuanian State...
Throughout the propaganda barrage -- abetted by anti-Lithuanian coverage in the Moscow media -- Landsbergis and his colleagues never wavered from their insistence that as the governors of a sovereign nation, they need not take orders from Moscow. "Psychological warfare is being waged against Lithuania," said Landsbergis in a speech to the local parliament. "I have no doubt that we will bear this pressure. It is a question of who has sovereignty over this land. Does it belong to the people of Lithuania or to some other state?" As for the decree ordering the surrender of firearms, Landsbergis replied...
...Washington and Moscow, analysts felt that the most sensible course for Gorbachev is to back away from brinkmanship and begin negotiations with the Lithuanians, who have all along expressed their eagerness to talk. In a commentary in the Soviet weekly New Times, political columnist Leonid Mlechin wrote, "Cooler heads will not ignore the will of the Lithuanian voters and will start shaping up a mechanism of cooperation with Vilnius. Any option for resolving this problem with force will strengthen the position of those in the republics who believe it is useless to try to reach an agreement with Moscow...
...Lithuanians boast a finer nationalist pedigree than Vytautas Landsbergis. Descended from a long line of intellectuals, the new President is only the latest Landsbergis to agitate for an independent homeland. His maternal grandfather produced the first grammar of modern Lithuanian, while his paternal grandfather was exiled to Russia for his opposition to czarist rule. Landsbergis' father Vytautas, one of Lithuania's leading architects, was a volunteer in the fight for independence in 1918 and, with his elder son Gabrielius, took part in an attempt to create an independent Lithuania during World...