Estonia: Almost extinguished, successfully reborn
The following text is the shortest possible review to help inform friends and guests from abroad about Estonia’s experience with foreign occupation and totalitarianism as well as its road to peacefully re-establishing national inde-pendence on the basis of democracy. Tunne Kelam Member of the European Parliament
The following text is the shortest possible review to help inform friends and guests from abroad about Estonia’s experience with foreign occupation and totalitarianism as well as its road to peacefully re-establishing national inde-pendence on the basis of democracy.
Tunne Kelam
Member of the European Parliament
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ESTONIA:<br />
<strong>Almost</strong><br />
<strong>extinguished</strong>,<br />
<strong>successfully</strong><br />
<strong>reborn</strong><br />
May 1989, Citizen’s Committee of Põlva, a small town in southern <strong>Estonia</strong>, has begun<br />
to register its inhabitants. Legal continuity made visible in real living people.<br />
(Tunne Kelam)<br />
August 23, 1989 close to Tartu, the Baltic Way, a human chain gathering approximately<br />
2 million people from Tallinn to Vilnius to plead for the freedom<br />
of the Baltic States. (ERM – <strong>Estonia</strong>n National Museum)<br />
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