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Thu 03 Mar 2010Independence no panacea but end of Soviet rule still celebrated in Lithuania
Bitterness over their bloody exit from the USSR is still strong, writes DANIEL McLAUGHLINin Vilnius
WHEN ALGIRDAS Endriukaitis voted for Lithuania’s independence on March 11th, 1990, he and his fellow parliamentarians started a process that would ultimately unravel the Kremlin’s empire, create 15 new countries and end the Cold War.
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