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11 March 1990 aftermath:
Gorbachev Warns Lithuania: Back Down or Face Blockade : Secession: His ultimatum gives the republic two days to rescind its independence moves or face a cutoff of oil and other vital goods
Mikhail Gorbachev,
Time Magazine (4 June 1990)
April 14, 1990|JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG | TIMES STAFF WRITER
MOSCOW — Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev on Friday threatened the toughest action yet to quash Lithuania's month-old independence bid: an economic blockade of oil and other vital products if the breakaway Baltic republic does not reverse its challenge to Moscow's rule within two days.
Affairs are now at a "political dead end," Gorbachev and Prime Minister Nikolai I. Ryzhkov said in a toughly worded letter to the Lithuanian leadership. The letter, distributed by the official news agency Tass, betrayed the Kremlin's worry over the effects of Lithuania's continuing defiance of Moscow, including the danger of pro-independence contagion spreading to other regions.
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