Two events, that caught the imagination of the outside world, did more than anything else to change this attitude: One was the „Singing revolution“ in June 1988. The world had known cases of Gandhian civil disobedience against injustice before – but singing oneself to freedom was a novelty.
European Parliament: ON „THOSE WHO DARE“…
For almost half a century the BALTIC NATIONS were the forgotten nations of Europe. Their lands had been razed from the map; their national identities and distinct cultures had partly gone underground. They had simply disappeared from the political radar screen of the outside world. When discussing the Baltic issue with a distinguished foreign minister of a NATO country, he dismissed the subject with a wafe of his hand and added: „ Haven´t these peoples always belonged to Russia anyway?“