Baltic Way: 2 Million People Hold Hands Across Three Countries
Two million people from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania linked hands across 600 kilometers to form an unbroken human chain that shattered Soviet control over the Baltic states. This massive display of unity forced Moscow to acknowledge the region's desire for independence, accelerating the dissolution of the USSR and restoring sovereignty to all three nations within a year.
August 23, 1989
37 years ago
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Lithuania
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Vilnius
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Estonia
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Tallinn
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Singing Revolution
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Baltic Way
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Soviet Union
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Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
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Estonia
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Lithuania
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Vilnius
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Latvia
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Tallinn
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Singing Revolution
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Baltic Way
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