The Baltic Way event on August 23, 1989, on the day of the 50th anniversary of the non-aggression treaty between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany (the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact). Residents of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, constituent republics of the Soviet Union, formed a human chain streching from Vilnuis to Tallinn demonstrating their desire to secede from the USSR. Demonstrants near the city of Rapla, the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic.
- Categories: Human Interest, Politics
- Location: Estonia
- Event date: 23.08.1989
- Date published: 02.05.2017
- Author: Yuryi Abramochkin
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: Sputnik
- Original: Dp89-3832, 35 mm slide
- Media: JPEG, 5239x3544px, 11.1Mb