Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Since late 1990 CPSU hardliners demanded proclamation of state of emergency. Since December 11, power structures started to prepare measures if such an order would come (it did not). #RussianHistory 3/10 100
Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social · 19/08/20261991 January Bloodbath in Vilnius and Barricades events Riga with strike on Latvian Ministry of Interior alienated peripheral republics even further. Balts quietly stand for their independence and won this counter-stand against hardliners of CPSU. #BalticHistory 4/10 100
Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social · 19/08/2026June 12, 1991. Yeltsin by waste majority won Russian presidential elections against Gorbachev's favourited candidate. Same as he did a year ago on elections of chairman of supreme soviet of Russian SFSR. Unstoppable wind of changes has reached Moscow. 5/10 100
