Yedinstvo (literally: ''Unity'', , , )Political Transformation and Changing Identities in Central and Eastern Europe by Andrew M. Blasko, Diana Januauskienė, p. 97
/ref> was a pro-soviet and anti-

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movement in the

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during the

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era. The goals of the movement were similar to those of the Latvian and

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Internationalist Movements, e.g. opposition to disintegration of the Soviet Union. Yedinstvo was supported by the Soviet military and the

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. In addition to ethnic Russians, the organization had some success among the

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, some of whom preferred Lithuania as a member of the Soviet Union. Yedinstvo went as far as to support forming a Polish autonomous region in southeastern Lithuania. Some commentators suggested that the organization was more popular with the Polish minority than the Russophone minority of Lithuania, which might have surprised the Poles of Warsaw, then seeking a de-communization in Poland. At the election to the Soviet Congress of People's Deputies, two Poles were elected to that body. The movement lost influence after the

August Coup The 1991 Soviet coup attempt, also known as the August Coup, was a failed attempt by hardliners of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) to Coup d'état, forcibly seize control of the country from Mikhail Gorbachev, who was President ...

, which its leaders had supported. Since 1991, the organization is inactive.Ethnicity and electoral politics by Jóhanna Kristín Birnir, p. 238
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