Soviet forces killed scores of people in four countries before the effort to break free of Moscow succeeded. Read more at straitstimes.com.
NEW YORK - Many in the former states of the Soviet Union that experienced the brute force of the military during the empire's twilight have expressed a darker view ofThe news media in Azerbaijan, for example, referred to him on Wednesday as the"butcher of the Azerbaijani people" or a"bloody executioner".
In Tbilisi, Georgia, in April 1989, Soviet soldiers shot at protesters demanding independence, killing 22 people. "Lithuanians will not glorify Gorbachev," Gabrielius Landsbergis, the foreign minister of Lithuania, wrote on Twitter."His soldiers fired on our unarmed protesters and crushed them under his tanks. That is how we will remember him."
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