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Baltic Way (1989)

On the Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia map as “The Baltic Way”

23 Aug 1989 — On the fiftieth anniversary of the Nazi–Soviet Pact, about two million Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians join hands in a chain some 675 km long from Tallinn through Riga to Vilnius, demanding that Moscow admit the secret protocol that delivered them to it.

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Turning point
Chapter
Collapse of the Soviet Union (chapter 9 of Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia)
Atlas
Remaking the State: Meiji Japan 1600–1912 and Post-Soviet Russia 1964–2000
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Map showing Baltic Way (1989), turning point in Remaking the State: Meiji Japan 1600–1912 and Post-Soviet Russia 1964–2000
TURNING POINT · REMAKING THE STATE: MEIJI JAPAN 1600–1912 AND POST-SOVIET RUSSIA 1964–2000

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◆ Karabakh◆ Tbilisi● Berlin Wall◆ Vilnius● Coup fails● Belavezha

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