Baltic Way Footprints (Riga)

Baltic Way Footprints (Riga)

On August 23, 1989, the people of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia organized a protest against the Soviet Union (of which the three nations were then a part).  Two million people, constituting approximately one third of the population of the Baltic nations, joined hands to form a 600-kilometer-long human chain (about 370 miles long) called the Baltic Way, which spanned from Vilnius, Lithuania, to Tallinn, Estonia, via Riga, Latvia. The date of the…