If it weren't for history, Seryosha wouldn't have realized how quickly it could have happened.
The news has been covering Romanian news for a long time.
Seryosha couldn't believe his eyes, the Ceausescu family, who had ruled Romania for decades, had been executed in a bloody and brutal manner within a month by an angry people.
In addition, protests, demonstrations, and clashes have plunged almost all countries of the socialist camp into endless turmoil.
In the GDR, the Berlin Wall was completely a decoration, and the people of East Germany no longer had to risk their lives to go to West Germany, and people drove in droves of satellite cars through checkpoints near the Berlin Wall to buy goods from West Germany, while the police force stationed at the Berlin Wall did not even need to check any documents.
After removing Honecker as a stumbling block, the SED began to revise its constitution and abandon a dictatorship.
The East German government has already begun preparations for a general election to determine the new governing party of the GDR, and the SED has no chance of winning the election.
In Czechoslovakia, the Czech Communist Party also adopted a policy of amending the party constitution and abandoning the one-tier system at the request of the people, and the direction of reform in Czechoslovakia was almost the same as that of the GDR, and they were also preparing for the first general elections in which the Czech Communist Party had completely split into two new parties.
In addition, in Bulgaria, in Yugoslavia, and even in Albania, where the Soviet Union broke with the Soviet Union, the overall context is the same, albeit different.
The people staged a large-scale protest, the ruling party chose to compromise and give up its ruling position, and then a general election was held, and the party that had occupied the ruling position was completely defeated and the party property was confiscated.
The parallels in this process are simply striking, and not only in Eastern Europe, but even the Mongolian People's Republic, the southern neighbor of the Soviet Union, seems to be experiencing something similar.
The Soviets were overwhelmed by the changes that took place on their doorstep in the Soviet Union, which was now the point in time when the post-war baby boomer generation had fully grown up.
Young people under the age of forty were the absolute main force of the Soviet population.
And after seeing this series of changes in the homes of their neighbors, former allies, they also have more ideas about their own countries.
Back in the days when Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania staged the farce of the Baltic Way, many Russians ran to Pushkin Square to support this separatist move.
And there are not a few young Soviet people who have been completely brainwashed by the West.
Since the events in Tbilisi, armed repression has proven to be a dead end.
The events in Tbilisi caused an uproar at home and abroad, and the Soviet Union almost fell into the quagmire of blockade and sanctions once again.
Therefore, since the Tbilisi incident, although a larger conflict has erupted in the three Baltic countries, the leadership headed by Gorbachev has always exercised restraint and has always hoped to resolve the problems of the three Baltic countries through dialogue.
However, Gorbachev had the heart to have a good talk with the leaders of the three Baltic states.
But people may not receive this affection.
In Lithuania, the Communist Party of Lithuania initiated a Soviet conference to vote on whether to secede from the Soviet Union.
This move split the Lithuanian Communist Party into two camps, pro-Soviet and anti-Soviet.
However, in Lithuania, after all, the Lithuanian nation still accounts for the vast majority, so the pro-Soviet camp has always been in a weak position.
Despite the repeated refusal of the Central Committee to recognize the results of the vote at the Lithuanian Soviet, the vote went according to plan.
Long before the vote, Gorbachev and the top echelons of the CPSU made successive speeches announcing that the Central Committee would refuse to recognize the results of the vote, regardless of the results of the vote at the Lithuanian Soviet Conference.
And after the vote, the results were also in, and about seventy percent of the deputies of the Supreme Soviet of Lithuania took part in the vote, and more than half were in favor of independence.
Just after the Lithuanian vote, the Lithuanian government officially declared Lithuania an independent state from the Soviet Union.
Although the news of Lithuania's declaration of independence had long been expected by Seryosha, he still felt something indescribable in his heart.
But Seryosha clearly understood that the most important issue for the Soviet Union now was definitely not the question of Lithuania's independence, but the social unrest caused by the failure of economic reforms.
Only by allowing the economy to improve can we calm down social contradictions.
This is also the reason why Seryosha has never been enthusiastic about his career, and now sitting in the position of the leader of the Soviet Union is probably no different from sitting on the crater of a volcano.
Once the crisis breaks out, it is difficult to say whether he will be able to save his life, and Ceausescu in front of him is a good example.
Seryosha knows very well that there are too many secrets that cannot be said about him, and if he really becomes the leader of the Soviet Union, it will be equivalent to putting his past under a microscope for others to observe, and when the time comes, he will participate in money laundering, collude with drug dealers and mafias, and even smuggle arms and steal the Soviet treasury.
It is precisely because he understands the dangers of being a leader that Seryosha is not enthusiastic about politics.
In the Leningrad Special Economic Zone, Seryosha pushed Yeltsin to the forefront, allowing Yeltsin to inherit the political capital he had created.
Although Lithuania has declared independence, no sovereign country in the world has recognized the fact of Lithuania's independence.
However, Lithuania's independent vote was not without legal basis.
This is because according to the declarations and treaties signed at the time of the founding of the Soviet Union, as well as the successive constitutions of the Soviet Union, it is clearly established that the republics of the Soviet Union have the right to freely withdraw from the Union.
Therefore, Gorbachev could not deny the legitimacy of Lithuania's independence unless he used force.
Lithuania's independence was not an isolated event, as Estonia, Latvia, Georgia, and Moldavia are now watching the next move of the central government.
Once Lithuania did become a sovereign state, these regions would be completely out of Soviet control.
Most of these areas are also areas where a single ethnic group makes up the vast majority of the population.
Ethnic Russians were not the main population of the region, and Stalin's ethnic policy was not thoroughly implemented in these areas.
In response to the imminent independence frenzy, Gorbachev and the Politburo decided to convene the 28th Congress of the CPSU and the general election of the head of government ahead of schedule.
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However, before the 28th Party Congress, Gorbachev must calm down the enthusiasm of young people in the country to participate in politics and return to their jobs. t1706231537: