Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic along a waterway. After Stalin's death in March 1953, Stalinabad, was renamed to "Dushanbe" on 10 November 1961 as part of the De-Stalinization program. In February 1990, tensions between the Tajiks and Armenians squared off in the republic's capital Dushanbe. 26 people died and 565 more were injured and the Soviet troops put down the riots. Both Yaqub Salimov, the Interior Minister and the youth activists were convicted for the participation in the riots. Later on 24 August 1990, Tajik SSR declared its sovereignty over Soviet laws. By 1991, Tajikistan participated in a referendum in March as part of the
Anthem of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic Constitution of the Lithuanian SSR (this is the version presented below). The Soviet era anthem for the Lithuanian SSR is presented below: Anthem of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic The State Anthem of the Lithuanian SSR () was the anthem of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic under the Soviet Union. During the Soviet occupation of Lithuania, this anthem was imposed by the Lithuanian SSR government in 1950, substituted for the "Tautiška giesmė", which was used briefly as a national anthem of Lithuania in 1944 until 1950. In 1988, the official anthem of the Republic of Lithuania (Tautiška giesmė) was once