Baltic Way

When

23 Aug 1989

Kind

Protest

Coordinates

57.00° N, 25.00° E

Description

1989 peaceful demonstration in the form of a human chain

Participants

2000000

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

1989 peaceful demonstration in the form of a human chain

The Baltic Way or Baltic Chain was a peaceful political demonstration that occurred on 23 August 1989. Approximately two million people joined their hands to form a human chain spanning 675 kilometres (419 mi) across the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, with a combined population of around eight million citizens, who had been subject to the Soviet Union's repression for more than 45 years before…

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• Wikidata: riots, protests, strikes and revoltsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Singing Revolution: Two million indigenous people of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania join hands to demand freedom and independence from Soviet occupation”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Baltık Yolu: Letonya, Estonya ve Litvanya'da iki milyon kişi el ele tutuşup yaklaşık 650 km boyunca bir insan zinciri oluşturarak SSCB'den özgürlük ve…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “am 50. Jahrestag des Hitler-Stalin-Paktes bilden über eine Million Menschen eine über 600 km lange Menschenkette”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “voie balte”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “В 50-ю годовщину подписания советско-германского пакта состоялась акция «Балтийский путь», в ходе которой жители Литвы”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Estonia, Letonia y Lituania: tiene lugar la manifestación conocida como Cadena Báltica, en demanda de una mayor autonomía para las Repúblicas Bálticas”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “愛沙尼亞、拉脫維亞、立陶宛三國約有200萬人牽起600公里長的「波羅的海之路」人鏈，抗議蘇聯佔領50週年。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page