INDEPENDENCIA DE LAS REPÚBLICAS BÁLTICAS.//INDEPENDENCE OF THE BALTIC REPUBLICS.
El 23 de agosto de 1989, tuvo
lugar un hecho sin precedentes en la historia europea y mundial, cuando casi 2
millones de personas se estrecharon las manos en la cadena humana, más larga
jamás realizada, desde Tallin hasta Vilma, pasando por Riga, uniendo las
capitales de las de Estonia, Letonia y Lituania un total de 600 kilómetros,
ininterrumpidos de personas tomadas de la mano.
La fecha elegida no fue tomada al
azar, sino que correspondía con el 50 aniversario de la firma del conocido como
Pacto Molotov-Ribbentrop. Este pacto firmado por los ministros de AA.EE., de
Alemania, Joachim Von Ribbentrop y la Unión Soviética, Viacheslav Molotov, en
la noche del 23 de agosto de 1939, consistía en un acuerdo bilateral de no
agresión mutua y algo más siniestro, el reparto de los países que anexionarían
cada uno de ellos, sabedores ambos que eso originaría una guerra (de hecho,
estalló solo 9 días después del acuerdo). El sello del acuerdo se escenificó
con una cruz gamada nazi con un círculo central con una estrella roja de cinco
puntas.
Entre los países del reparto,
estaban Estonia, Letonia y Lituania, quienes habían disfrutado de soberanía
propia desde 1918. En 1940 la URSS las anexiona, pero Alemania, rompiendo el
pacto citado anteriormente, las ocuparía un año después, permaneciendo bajo
dominio germánico hasta 1944 en que Rusia las libera del lazo alemán, viviendo
bajo estatus soviético.
Convocados a través de las
emisoras de radio el pueblo se concentró en una protesta pacífica, que
discurrió casi sin incidentes, solo hubo según algunos informes 75 detenciones.
En ella tomaron parte ciudadanos de distintas edades e inclusos niños de corta
edad. Para que no quedasen huecos en la cadena se pusieron a disposición de los
ciudadanos autobuses, para el traslado a los puntos de menor población. Aunque
duró oficialmente quince minutos (de 19:00 a 19:15) el movimiento produjo un
atasco de cientos de vehículos.
Lograda su ansiada independencia,
la unión de las Repúblicas Bálticas, creó unos lazos tan fuertes, que las llevó
a formar parte de la Unión Europea y de la OTAN desde 1991, llegando a
postularse para la realización de unos JJOO, realizados conjuntamente, esto
último aun no llegó a materializarse.
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On August 23, 1989, an unprecedented event took place in European and world history, when almost 2 million people shook hands in the longest human chain ever made, from Tallinn to Vilma, passing through Riga, linking the capitals of Estonia,
According to an article by the Reuters Agency,
they set about 700,000 Estonians, 500,000 Latvians and almost 1,000,000
Lithuanians. But in other media it is said that they did not exceed a million
and a half. But in any case, this human chain appears in the book of records of
the Irish Guinness Foundation, as the most numerous of those carried out so
far. In recent times, Taiwan and Catalonia imitated that feat, without so much
convening power.
The date chosen was not taken at random, but
corresponded to the 50th anniversary of the signing of the so-called
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. This pact signed by the ministers of AA.EE, Germany,
Joachim Von Ribbentrop, and the Soviet Union, Vyacheslav Molotov, on the night
of August 23, 1939, consisted of a bilateral agreement of mutual non-aggression
and, something more sinister, the division of the countries that would annex
each of them, both knowing that this would cause a war (in fact, broke out just 9 days after the deal.) The
seal of the agreement was staged with a Nazi swastika with a central circle
with a red five-pointed star.
Among the countries in the partition were
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which had enjoyed their own sovereignty since
1918. In 1940 the USSR annexed them, but Germany, breaking the pact mentioned
above, would occupy them a year later, remaining under German rule until 1944
when Russia freed them from the German bond, living under Soviet status.
In 1985 Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev
carried out reforms of some openness known as Perestroika and Glasnost, so some
countries took advantage of them to ask for independence, these protests
culminated in the dismemberment of the USSR first and the fall of the Berlin
Wall with the union of the two Germanys later.
Summoned through radio stations, the people gathered in a peaceful protest, which took place almost without incident, there were only 75 arrests according to some reports. Citizens of different ages and even young children took part in it. So that there were no gaps in the chain, buses were made available to citizens, for transfer to the points of less population. Although it officially lasted fifteen minutes (from 7:00 p.m. to 7:15 p.m.), the movement caused a traffic jam of hundreds of vehicles.
Once their long-awaited independence was
achieved, the union of the Baltic Republics created such strong ties that it
led them to be part of the European Union and NATO since 1991, even applying
for the Olympic Games, held jointly, the latter has not yet materialized.
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