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Bob Rae (Robert Keith Rae) is an expatriate Estonian politician in Canada who gives an interview in the office of the Prime Minister of Canada in Toronto. He tells the journalists about the Soviet occupation in the Baltic States, the political awakening of the Baltics and their struggle for democracy and independence; also, about the dramatic events that took place in Riga and Vilnius in January 1991. Next to Bob Rae there are representatives of Lithuanian and Latvian refugee organizations.

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