Historical background of the Baltic Road

Soviet political propaganda insisted that the National Assemblies of the three countries represented the will of the people of each country and proposed to the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union to join the Soviet Union - therefore, the three countries voluntarily joined the Soviet Union, rather than the Soviet Union occupying the three countries.

The three countries claimed that they were illegally merged by the Soviet Union by force. The three countries were originally independent countries during World War II. They can also legally restore their original status and declare that Soviet laws have no effect on the three countries, so that the three countries no longer need to abide by the "Soviet Constitution" and avoid formal secession procedures.

In the 1980s, the relationship between the three Baltic countries and Moscow became increasingly tense. Romualdas Ozoras launched a protest action signed by 2 million people in Lithuania, demanding that the Red Army withdraw from Lithuania. The Lithuanian Communist Party also considered breaking with the Soviet Communist Party. On August 8, 1989, Estonia attempted to amend the electoral law to restrict the voting rights of new immigrants (mainly Russian workers), triggering large-scale strikes and protests by Russian workers. As tensions grow, there are expectations that Moscow will pursue reforms in response to the wishes of the Baltic people. On August 15, the Soviet Union officially responded to the strike in Estonia and severely condemned the "radicals" for disregarding the overall interests of the Soviet Union, pursuing their own "narrow nationalism" and inciting "hysterical" mass activities. On the 17th, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union announced a new policy on joining the Soviet Union in "Pravda". However, most of its content is the same old tune, that is, the Soviet Union not only retains leadership in diplomacy and defense, but also dominates economy, science, and culture; but it also made slight concessions in some aspects, such as proposing to join the Soviet Union and the Soviet Union. Soviet laws could be opposed in court (at that time, the three Baltic states had amended their constitutions to empower their respective Supreme Soviets to veto Soviet laws), and their respective national languages ??could be promoted to official languages ??(but Russian was still dominant). The plan included legislation to ban "national and chauvinist organizations" to prosecute groups fighting for independence; it also proposed replacing the 1922 Union Treaty with a new association agreement as part of the Soviet constitution.