Atmostas Baltija, Bunda Jau Baltija, Ärgake Baltimaad

Today is the 26th anniversary of the Baltic Way - a chain of 2 million people holding hands from Tallinn to Riga from Riga to Vilnius. It was organized as a protest against Molotov-Ribbentrop pact which turned 50 in 1989 23rd of August. It was a peaceful protest which lead to my country's declaring of independence on the 11th of March in 1990 - just seven months after the Baltic Way. Of course, there was much more work involved in declaring it than gathering 2 million people to hold their hands for 15 minutes at 7pm. But it was a great moral boost to take further actions, to prepare for whatever sacrifice is necessary to gain our freedom. And freedom is a treasure, if you set out to look for it, that every participant gets a whole part of it. Way better than dividing a chest of gold.
I do recall some tv reports on this act, very hazily though. But every time I watch this clip and hear this song, I feel that freedom is one of the key elements of everyone's life.