On March 1, 1990, a new country was born, and that was Lithuania. Yes, on this day Lithuania announced its official withdrawal from the family of the USSR and became an independent state. Although the collapse of the Soviet Union was almost two years later on December 25, 1991, it is true that the independence of Lithuania and the independence of the three Baltic states has torn a hole in the big family of the Soviet Union. It marked that the Soviet Union no longer had the ability to control its own territory.
You must know that at the time of the Cold War, half of Europe at the peak of the Soviet Union was in his hands, and these small countries in Eastern Europe, whether it was the Czech Republic or Hungary, if they had a slight disagreement, the Soviet army would overwhelm the border, and even directly arrest your head of state and arrest him to Moscow. At that time, not to mention the republics within the Soviet Union, even the countries of Eastern Europe did not dare to have any objection to the Soviet Union. But when the edifice was about to collapse, Lithuania, as a union republic, was the first to propose to secede from this big family, and he really succeeded, so with the precedent of Lithuania, the entire Soviet edifice finally collapsed completely, and this is the source of all the chaos in the past 30 years.