Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia · SITE OF MEMORY ·
January Events in Vilnius (1991)
On the Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia map as “Vilnius TV tower”
13 Jan 1991 — Ten months after Lithuania declared independence, Soviet troops and tanks seize the television tower in Vilnius, and 14 unarmed civilians are killed. Thousands of Lithuanians surrounded their parliament to protect it, and the crackdown went no further.
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- Collapse of the Soviet Union (chapter 9 of Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia)
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- Remaking the State: Meiji Japan 1600–1912 and Post-Soviet Russia 1964–2000
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