Vikipeedia:GLAM/Kynnap/en/7

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Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Standing for freedom

As the legal assessment of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact in relations with the USSR central government in Moscow became topical in 1989, the goal of Estonia and other Baltic states was then to obtain rapid condemnation of it by the USSR's legislative body as soon as possible.

Three Baltic states responded to the stretching tactics that began in Moscow with an extraordinary protest, the so-called Baltic Way, where nearly 2 million people, including 600,000 from Estonia, formed a human chain from Tallinn to Vilnius. The peaceful mass demonstration on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact on August 23, 1989 received a lot of attention in the entire world and helped to raise awareness of the Baltic states' aspirations for liberation. In December the same year Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR declared the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and its secret protocols invalid and that from the moment of its signing. Today, August 23 is the Day of Remembrance for all the victims of communism and nazism (Black Ribbon Day).

Künnap had returned from the Pamir Mountains day earlier and had not yet fully acclimatized. When visiting friends it came up that something was happening, and so Künnap went with Toomas Kiige and Jaan Sülla to take pictures of the Baltic Way. All three were members of the Tallinn Photo Club. Soviet car Zhiguli drove them to Kohila, where Künnap shoot up several film rolls and managed to stand as well in the human chain at given time.

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