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The Baltic Way: images and key facts
Everything you need to write about or share The Baltic Way, a cinematic flight along the human chain of 23 August 1989. Use the images freely with the credit shown under each one.
In one sentence
The Baltic Way is a free cinematic flight along the 675 km human chain of 23 August 1989, from Tallinn through Rīga to Vilnius, with archive photographs, film and the radio broadcast from that evening, and a map where visitors mark where their families stood.
In a paragraph
On 23 August 1989, about two million people in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania joined hands for fifteen minutes and formed a human chain of about 675 km, marking 50 years since the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. The Baltic Way, a Lab project by Valev Laube, flies the whole chain in about four minutes: the line of people forms beneath you at twelve stops, each with a photograph from the day and a moment from Estonian Radio’s live broadcast. At the end, visitors can mark where their own families stood. In English, Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian, at baltikett.valevlaube.com.
Key facts
- 2,000,000people, by most estimates
- 675 kmfrom Tallinn through Rīga to Vilnius
- 15 minuteshand in hand, from 19:00 local time
- 12 stopsin the flight, about four minutes
- 75 photographsfrom the day and the years around it
- 4 languagesEnglish, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian
Images
Sized for each platform. Each links to baltikett.valevlaube.com and carries its credit. Archive photographs come from Wikimedia Commons under the licenses shown; the images are shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Contact
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