The Soviet authorities responded Response to the event Social_event with intense rhetoric , but failed Earnings_and_losses to take Giving any constructive actions Response that could bridge Connect the widening Expansion gap between the Baltic republics and the rest of the Soviet Union .

Initially the Yugoslav People 's Army ( JNA ) sought to preserve Preserving the unity of the whole of Yugoslavia by crushing Destroying the secessionist governments , but it increasingly came under the influence of the Serbian government of Slobodan Milošević , which evoked Causation Serbian nationalist rhetoric and was willing to use Using the Yugoslav cause to preserve Preserving the unity of Serbs in one state .

The revolt incorporated Cause_to_amalgamate some principles and rhetoric from the emerging Coming_to_be Protestant Reformation , through which the peasants sought influence and freedom .