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Thirty Years After Soviet Crackdown In Lithuania, Kremlin Accused Of Rewriting History
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- Publisher
- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
- Original language
- en
- Link
- https://www.rferl.org/a/lithuania-soviet-crackdown-1991-kremlin-rewriting-history/31043914.htmlAccessed 23 September 2026
Editorial annotation
Independent journalistic account, consulted via citation, of the January Events of 11-13 January 1991 in Vilnius, in which Soviet forces stormed the TV tower and broadcasting centre, killing 14 unarmed civilians and wounding hundreds, following Gorbachev's economic sanctions imposed on Lithuania through 1990.