The Bloody Dissolution is a timeline that revolves around a separate end to the Soviet Union, where the fall of the Communist state was accompanied by bloody warfare. It also involves the Yugoslav Wars, the War in Iraq and other political events of the early 1990s. March 11, 1990 - The Lithuanian SSR, led by Chairman of the Supreme Council Vytautas Landsbergis, declared restoration of independence. However, the Soviet Army attempted to suppress the movement. The Soviet Union initiated an economic blockade of Lithuania and kept troops there "to secure the rights of ethnic Russians."