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 Parlament
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 Parlament
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<strong>ESTONIA</strong>:<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 Estonia, has begun<br />
to register its inhabitants. Legal continuity made visible in real living people.<br />
(Tunne Kelam)<br />
August 23, 1989. Near Tartu. The Baltic Way, a human chain approxi-mately 2<br />
million people from Tallinn to Vilnius standing up for the freedom of the Baltic<br />
States. (ERM – Estonian National Museum)<br />
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