It broke the dam and flooded everything in its path. West German Chancellor Kohl agrees to limit Germany's military strength, pay the Soviet Army's resettlement costs and keep NATO troops and weapons out of eastern Germany. In Moscow, daily lines for food grow longer. As divisions in the Soviet Union increase, Gorbachev brings hard-liners into the government. In January 1991, Soviet troops enter the capital of Lithuania to take back public buildings for the Soviet state.
Soviet tanks attack.
In Moscow, thousands march to protest the crackdown. Gorbachev defends his government's actions. In July 1991, Gorbachev meets Bush in London to ask the leading capitalist countries for massive loans. They turn him down. In Moscow, his enemies prepare to move against him.