Yedinstvo (literally: ''Unity'', russian: Единство, lt, Vienybė, pl, Jedność)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- Sąjūdis movement in the Lithuanian SSR during the

Perestroika ''Perestroika'' (; russian: links=no, перестройка, p=pʲɪrʲɪˈstrojkə, a=ru-perestroika.ogg) was a political movement for reform within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) during the late 1980s widely associated wit ...

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 The dissolution of the Soviet Union, also negatively connoted as rus, Разва́л Сове́тского Сою́за, r=Razvál Sovétskogo Soyúza, ''Ruining of the Soviet Union''. was the process of internal disintegration within the Sov ...

. Yedinstvo was supported by the Soviet military and the KGB. In addition to ethnic Russians, the organization had some success among the

Polish minority in Lithuania The Poles in Lithuania ( pl, Polacy na Litwie, lt, Lietuvos lenkai), estimated at 183,000 people in the Lithuanian census of 2021 or 6.5% of Lithuania's total population, are the country's largest ethnic minority. During the Polish–Lithuan ...

, 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

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, 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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