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A picture of participiants during Baltic Way in Valka 23 August 1989. The Baltic Way took place on August 23, 1989 to mark 50 years since the Stalinist Soviet Union and Nazi Germany signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. During the campaign, citizens of the three Baltic states - about two million people - held hands to form a human chain from Vilnius to Tallinn. EPA/VALDA KALNINA LATVIA OUT, LITHUANIA OUT, ESTONIA OUT