On August 23, 1989, something unprecedented in European history took place in the three Baltic republics, then still Soviet republics. Two million people formed a human chain from Tallinn to Vilnius, and at a prearranged moment, they all joined hands and began to sing. It was the fiftieth anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which divided Central and Eastern Europe into German and Soviet parts – and which marked the end of the independenc…
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On August 23, 1989, something unprecedented in European history took place in the three Baltic republics, then still Soviet republics. Two million people formed a human chain from Tallinn to Vilnius, and at a prearranged moment, they all joined hands and began to sing. It was the fiftieth anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which divided Central and Eastern Europe into German and Soviet parts – and which marked the end of the independenc…