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- <text id=90TT1285>
- <title>
- May 21, 1990: World Notes:Soviet Union
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- May 21, 1990 John Sununu:Bush's Bad Cop
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 44
- World Notes
- SOVIET UNION
- Brickbats from The Baltics
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> As Moscow celebrated the 1945 victory over Nazi Germany last
- week, Defense Minister Dmitri Yazov insisted that the Baltic
- states had been "liberated" by the Red Army, not occupied, as
- the secessionists contend. "We were met with flowers," said
- Yazov. But Soviet officials were the targets, of brickbats
- rather than bouquets in the three Baltic capitals, which
- jointly announced an agreement for the direct trading of their
- agricultural products among themselves, cutting out Soviet
- ministries.
- </p>
- <p> ESTONIA. Parliament voted to restore a paragraph to its
- constitution that declares the country is "an independent
- republic," and to drop "Soviet Socialist" from its name. The
- prewar tricolor national flag was hoisted over the parliament
- building, replacing the red flag.
- </p>
- <p> LATVIA. After parliament announced that a transition period
- leading to independence had begun, Soviet tanks and armored
- vehicles rolled through Riga. Ivars Godmanis of the Popular
- Front was elected Prime Minister, and panic buying emptied
- stores of sausages and soap.
- </p>
- <p> LITHUANIA. The Council of Ministers slashed milk and meat
- supplies to the Soviet Union by 10% as a retaliatory move
- against Moscow's economic sanctions.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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