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It was during the era of 1989-1991 when the Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union made the decisions that enabled the Baltic States to break away from the empire that once had occupied the countries. The crowning achievement of Estonian politicians in Kreml was disclosing of the secret protocols of Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and declaring them null and void. Distributing the ideas of Estonian politicians among the national representatives in Moscow, intensive collaboration with Boris Yeltsin and Russian democrats made the communist empire to collapse. Documentary aims at correcting the widely spred misconception that regaining their independence was ...

Director: Toomas Lepp

Keywords: newspaper printing | Baltic Way | freedom fight of the Baltic states | development of democracy | the Phosphorite War | beginning of World War II | empire | self-sufficiency | becoming independent | resistance movement in Poland | View all »