Results of independence referendums in post-Soviet states 1991-1994
a decade of economic stagnation and decline across the Eastern Bloc, Lithuania became the first Soviet Republic to claim independence on March 11, 1990, which created a domino effect for similar motions across the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union was officially dissolved on December 26, 1991; however, most of the Soviet Socialist Republics had already claimed their independence or sovereignty before this date. After