<prompt> Pedzisa mashoko anotevera: Mumwedzi iwoyo, mumuguta reSumgait kuAzerbaijan, zvikwata zvevanhu vokuAzerbaijan zvakatanga kuuraya vanhu vokuArmenia. Mauto omunzvimbo yacho akaedza kudzvinyirira nyonganyonga yacho asi akarwiswa nemhomho. Politburo yakarayira kuti mamwe mauto apinde muguta, asi mukusiyana naavo vakaita saLigachev vaida kuratidzwa kukuru kwesimba, Gorbachev akakurudzira kuzvidzora. Akatenda kuti mugariro wacho waigona kugadziriswa kupfurikidza negadziriro yezvematongerwe enyika, achikurudzira kurukurirano pakati pemapato echiCommunist eArmenia neAzerbaijan. Mamwe masimba masimba anopesana neArmenian akaputika muBaku muna 1990. Zvinetso zvakaonekawo muGeorgian Soviet Socialist Republic; muna April 1989, vaGeorgia vaida kuzvimiririra  <response>: vakatsamwirana nemauto muTbilisi, zvichiguma norufu rwakasiyana-siyana. Kuda kuzvimiririra kwakanga kuchikurawo munyika dzeBaltic; maSoviet Makurusa eSoviet Socialist Republics yeEstonia, Lithuania, neLatvia akazivisa kuzvimiririra kwavo mune zvoupfumi kubva kuRussia uye akatanga matanho okuderedza kutama kweRussia. Muna August 1989, varatidziri vakaumba Baltic Way, cheni yomunhu mhiri kwamarudzi matatu kuti varatidze chishuvo chavo chokuzvimirira. Mwedzi iwoyo, Supreme Soviet yeLithuania yakatonga kuti kubatanidzwa kwenyika yavo neSoviet muna 1940 kwakanga kusiri pamutemo; muna January 1990, Gorbachev akashanyira nyika yacho kuti aikurudzire kuramba iri chikamu cheSoviet Union. 