THE BEGINNING OF USSR’S END

Laima Vince, SLS-Lithuania faculty member, writes in commemoration of the 19th anniversary of the violent attacks on the television tower in Vilnius: http://balticreports.com/?p=7821.

That was the first world-audible death knell of the unnatural geopolitical formation known as the USSR. Soviet Union’s unravelling was bound to have started with the Baltic republics, and so it did.