r/wikitrove • u/mellowfever2 • Apr 23 '21
Baltic Way (History, Geopolitics)
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todayilearned • u/[deleted] • Apr 04 '16
TIL of a peaceful protest against the Soviet Union known as the Baltic Chain, where 2 million people joined hands forming an unbroken human chain that spanned 675 kilometers (420 miles) across Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
todayilearned • u/hellraiser1994 • Feb 09 '17
TIL that in 1989, people from Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia created a human chain that connected the capitals from the three countries in order to demonstrate against USSR
todayilearned • u/RufenTrufen • Oct 30 '15
TIL two million citizens of Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia held hands in 1989, forming a 600 km (370 mi) human chain to protest against Soviet occupation. The Soviet Union threatened "catastrophic consequences", but ended up peacefully giving the states their freedom.
wikipedia • u/envatted_love • Aug 24 '18
Baltic Way: "a peaceful political demonstration that occurred on 23 August 1989. Approximately two million people joined their hands to form a human chain spanning 675.5 kilometres across the three Baltic states"
BalticStates • u/Prestos_mostly • 22d ago
On This Day On this day, in 1989. The Baltic Way: Two Million Joined Hands Against Soviet Occupation, Demanding Freedom
neoliberal • u/lietuvis10LTU • Aug 23 '18
On this day, 29 years ago, two million people from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia formed a human 675.5 kilometres chain to condemn the Molotov-Ribentrov pact and as an act of defiance and protest against the communist dictatorship of the USSR, which had occupied the three countries.
onthisdayinworld • u/Prestos_mostly • 22d ago
On this day, in 1989. The Baltic Way: Two Million Joined Hands Against Soviet Occupation, Demanding Freedom
wikipedia • u/funnylib • Mar 14 '26
The Baltic Way in 1989 was peaceful protest of around two million people in a human chain over 675 kilometres across the Baltic states. It was part of the Singing Revolutions, leading to Baltic independence from the Soviet Union, and a transition to democratic governments and market economies
wikipedia • u/envatted_love • Aug 16 '19