If it weren't for the history of his own, Seriosha wouldn't have realized that everything would have happened so quickly. The news has been continuously reported in Romania for a period of time. Seriosha couldn't believe his eyes. The Ceausescu family, which had ruled Romania for decades, was actually bloody and cruelly executed by angry people within a month. In addition, various protests, demonstrations, and conflict activities have caused almost all countries in the socialist camp to fall into endless trouble.

In a democratic Germany, the Berlin Wall became a decoration, and the East German people no longer had to risk their lives to go to West Germany. People drove satellite cars in groups through checkpoints near the Berlin Wall to purchase goods, and the police stationed in the Berlin Wall did not even need to check any documents. After removing the stumbling block of Hornak, the German Unified Socialist Party began to revise the Party Constitution and abandon a dictatorship system. The East German government has begun to prepare a general election with the participation of the whole nation to decide the new ruling party in East Germany. Judging from the current situation, the German Unified Socialist Party has no possibility of winning the election.

In Czechoslovakia, the Czech Communist Party also adopted a policy of revising the Party Constitution and abandoning the one-stage system at the request of the people. The reform direction of Czechoslovakia was exactly the same as that of Democratic Germany. They were also preparing for the first general election where the whole nation participated. Before the election, the Czech Communist Party had completely split into two new parties.

In addition, in Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and even in Albania, which broke with the Soviet Union, although the process was different, the overall context was exactly the same. The people launched a large-scale protest, and the ruling party chose to compromise and give up its ruling position, and then held a general election. The parties that originally occupied the ruling position were completely defeated and the party's property was confiscated. The similarity of this process is simply amazing, and not only in Eastern Europe, but also in the southern neighbor of the Soviet Union, the Mongolian People's Republic, seemed to be experiencing similar things.

The series of changes that occurred at the doorstep of the Soviet Union made the Soviet people feel overwhelmed. The Soviet Union is now the time when the post-war baby boom generation has completely grown up. Young people under the age of 40 are the absolute main force of the Soviet population. After seeing these series of changes in their neighbors and former allies, they also had more ideas about their own countries. As early as Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania were staged a farce on the Baltic Road, many Russians actually ran to Pushkin Square to support this act of splitting the country. And there were still many young Soviets who were completely brainwashed by the West.

Since the Tbilisi incident, armed suppression has proved to be a dead end. The Tbilisi incident once caused an uproar at home and abroad, and the Soviet Union almost fell into the quagmire of blockade and sanctions again. Therefore, since the Tbilisi incident, although a larger-scale conflict broke out in the Three Baltics, the leadership led by Gorbachev has maintained restraint from beginning to end, and they always hope to resolve the problems of the Three Baltics through dialogue.

However, although Gorbachev was willing to have a good talk with the leaders of the three Baltic countries, they may not necessarily appreciate this feeling. In Lithuania, the Lithuanian Communist Party launched a vote on whether to leave the Soviet Union. This action suddenly split the Lithuanian Communist Party into two major camps, pro-Soviet and anti-Soviet camps. However, in Lithuania, the Lithuanian nation still occupies the vast majority, so the pro-Soviet camp has always been in a weak position. Although the central government repeatedly refused to recognize the results of the vote of the Lithuanian Soviet Conference, the vote was still held as planned.

Long before the vote, Gorbachev and the top leaders of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union made consecutive speeches, announcing that no matter what the vote was at the Lithuanian Soviet Conference, the central government refused to recognize the results of the vote. After the vote, the results were also released. About 70% of the highest representatives of Lithuanian Soviets participated in the vote, and more than half of those who favored independence. Just after the vote ended, the Lithuanian government officially announced that Lithuania had separated from the Soviet Union and became an independent country.

Although Seriosha had long expected the announcement of independence, he still felt a little indescribable. However, Seriosha clearly realized that the most important issue for the Soviet Union is definitely not the independence issue of Lithuania. The social unrest caused by the failure of economic reform is the fundamental problem. Only by improving the economy can social contradictions be sanitized. This is also the reason why Seriosha was not enthusiastic about his career. Now he is sitting in the position of the Soviet leader, it is probably no different from sitting on a crater. Once a crisis breaks out, it is hard to say whether he can save his life. Ceausescu in front of him is a

Good example. Seriosha knew that there were too many secrets that could not be told in him. If he really became a leader of the Soviet Union, it would be equivalent to putting his past under a microscope for others to observe. At that time, he participated in money laundering, colluding with drug dealers, mafia, and even smuggling arms, and stealing the Soviet treasury. As long as any of them was exposed, he and her lover would die without a burial place. It was because he understood the danger of being a leader that Seriosha was not enthusiastic about politics. In the Leningrad Special Economic Zone, Seriosha pushed Jeltsin to the forefront and asked Jeltsin to inherit the political capital he created himself.

Although Lithuania declared independence, there was no sovereign state in the world that Lithuania recognized the independence of Lithuania. However, Lithuania's independent vote was not without legal basis. Because according to the declarations and treaties signed when the Soviet Union was founded, and the Soviet Union's various constitutions clearly established that the Soviet Union's franchise republics enjoyed the right to freely withdraw from the alliance. Therefore, Gorbachev could not deny the legitimacy of Lithuania's independence unless he used force.

The Lithuanian independence incident is not an isolated incident, because Estonia, Latvia, Georgia, and Moldavia are all observing the central government's next move. Once Lithuania really becomes a sovereign state, these regions will completely break away from the control of the Soviet Union. Most of these regions are also areas where a single ethnic group accounts for the vast majority of the population. The Russians are not the main population in the local area, and Stalin's ethnic policies are not implemented thoroughly in these regions.
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