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| Lithuania’s steadfast strife for freedom and a peaceful anticommunist movement undermined and brought about the final collapse of the communist empire. The Gorbachiov’s perestroika launched in 1985 had an enormous impact on the developments in Lithuania. The summer of 1988 saw emerging national revival movement (called “singing revolution”) across the Baltic states. The Reform Movement of Lithuania (Sąjūdis) established on 3 June 1988 convened massive gatherings which turned the history of Lithuania. To demonstrate the scale of anti-communist movement, the Reform Movement of Lithuania in cooperation with the Estonian and Latvian counterparts arranged a grand-scale protest campaign called Baltic Roadon 23 August 1989 marking the 50th anniversary of Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. The Supreme Council elections held on 24 February 1990 brought a landslide victory for the Reform Movement of Lithuania. The Supreme Council (later renamed Reconstituent Seimas) proclaimed the re-establishment of Lithuania’s independence on 11 March 1990. This was the third time in history that Lithuania started an epoch of autonomous life. |
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