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Al Jazeera: Baltics Mark Anti-Soviet Protest

posted by eagle on August, 2009 as Imperialism


SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 2009 
23:30 MECCA TIME, 20:30 GMT

Baltics mark anti-Soviet protest

Latvia's President Valdis Zatlers (arms raised) 
ran part of the relay [Reuters]

Tens of thousands of people in the Baltic states have marked the twentieth anniversary of the 'Baltic Way' - when two million people formed a human chain to protest against Soviet rule.

About 50,000 people participated in a relay on Sunday along the original 678km route that runs through Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania, organisers said.

The landmark 1989 linking of hands is said to have helped bring an end to Soviet occupation.

Valdis Zatlers, the Latvian president, ran the last leg of the route that finished in Riga, Latvia's capital, a day after the relay began in Tallinn and Vilnius, the respective Estonian and Lithuanian capitals.

"We showed that we could decide our own future," Zatlers said at the Freedom Monument, in the centre of Riga.

More than a quarter of the total population of seven million people participated in the peaceful protest and act of solidarity on August 23, 1989.

Berlin-Moscow pact

Soviet rule over the Baltic nations was secretly decided in a pact between Stalinist Moscow and Nazi Germany in 1940.

The deal was precipitated by the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact between Berlin and Moscow, a non-aggression pact that was signed days before the commencemento the Second World War.

Baltic Way 20th anniversary marked

That saw Poland carved up between the two nations in 1939 and the Baltic countries later handed to the Soviets.

Many Russian historians have said that pacts were crucial as they mark occasions when the West failed to stand up to Nazi expansion.

"We must remember that, 70 years ago, the leaders of other countries cynically decided our fates," Zatlers said Sunday.

Russia had previously ruled the Baltic states until the First World War.

Following the Baltic Way, protests continued regardless of crackdowns in Latvia and Lithuania in January 1991.

The Baltic nations gained independence after a failed coup against a reformist Russian government in August 1991 speeded-up the Soviet Union's collapse.


http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2009/08/200982318443710242.html


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