Editing History of Lithuania (section)

===Rebirth (1988–1990)===
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[[File:A rally in Lithuania commemorate and condemn the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, August 23, 1988, Vilnius, Vingis Park.jpg|thumb|right|An [[Anti-Soviet]] rally in [[Vingis Park]] of about 250,000 people. [[Sąjūdis]] was a movement which led to the restoration of an Independent State of Lithuania.]]
Until mid-1988, all political, economic, and cultural life was controlled by the [[Communist Party of Lithuania]] (CPL). Lithuanians as well as people in the other two [[Baltic states|Baltic republics]] distrusted the Soviet regime even more than people in other regions of the Soviet state, and they gave their own specific and active support to [[Mikhail Gorbachev]]'s program of social and political reforms known as [[perestroika]] and [[glasnost]]. Under the leadership of intellectuals, the Reform Movement of Lithuania [[Sąjūdis]] was formed in mid-1988, and it declared a program of democratic and national rights, winning nationwide popularity. Inspired by Sąjūdis, the [[Supreme Soviet of the Lithuanian SSR]] passed constitutional amendments on the supremacy of Lithuanian laws over Soviet legislation, annulled the 1940 decisions on proclaiming Lithuania a part of the Soviet Union, legalized a multi-party system, and adopted a number of other important decisions, including the return of the national state symbols — the [[flag of Lithuania]] and the [[Tautiška giesmė|national anthem]]. A large number of CPL members also supported the ideas of Sąjūdis, and with Sąjūdis support, [[Algirdas Brazauskas]] was elected First Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPL in 1988. On 23 August 1989, 50 years after the [[Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact]], Latvians, Lithuanians and Estonians joined hands in a human chain that stretched 600 kilometres from [[Tallinn]] to Vilnius in order to draw the world's attention to the fate of the Baltic nations. The human chain was called the [[Baltic Way]]. In December 1989, the Brazauskas-led CPL declared its independence from the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] and became a separate [[Social democracy|social democratic]] party, renaming itself the [[Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania]] in 1990.