1989 Event

Baltic Way

Name: Baltic Way
Start: 1989

Two million people form a human chain from Tallinn to Vilnius.

What leads to what

Declared chains of causation — debatable, like any reading of history.

Downstream

leads to Independence restored 1990 Deux millions de mains, et la Lituanie déclare la première.
leads to Independence of Latvia restored 1991 La chaîne humaine traversait les trois pays.

Meanwhile, elsewhere

Within twenty-five years of 1989 — the context national timelines leave out.

same year Velvet Revolution Czechia
same year Fall of the Berlin Wall
same year Pan-European Picnic Hungary
same year December revolution Romania
1 year later German reunification Germany
1 year earlier Singing Revolution Estonia
1 year later Independence restored Lithuania
2 years later Independence of Croatia Croatia

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Which long period

Periods overlap: they are landmarks, not boxes.

European integration 1950 – 2030 From coal and steel to a Union of twenty-seven.
Cold War 1947 – 1991 A continent cut in two, from Yalta to 1991.

Countries involved

Lithuania

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What was written of it

Before 1914, the earth belonged to all. Everyone went where they wished and stayed as long as they pleased. There were no permits and no authorisations.

Stefan Zweig 1942

The World of Yesterday. Memoirs of a European

Translated by the site, not by the author.