secretary of the communist party, algerdasbrazauskas, was one of the initiators of the creation of saidis then the first president in the post-war period, however, after the 1990 elections, the paths of the union republics broke up in lithuania, the saidis received two-thirds of the vote and formed its first independent from moscow in ukraine without communists, in the first relatively democratic elections, the communists won the baltic republics, they were from the moment of the collapse of the russian empire in the 17th year, they developed as democratic until the 40th year states, that is, the period when the communist system destroyed ukrainians with all its might here and there was much longer than the period during which the baltic countries were destroyed, although the communists held power, but this power was no longer a monopoly . candidates from the democratic block also entered the parliament. they created an informal association, the people's council, which was headed by academician igor khnovsky, although the opposition controlled less than a third of the votes, but it was th