The Baltic Way - also known as the Baltic Chain - was a demonstration in 1989 by citizens in the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania calling for independence from the Soviet Union. On 23 August 1989, around two million participants formed a human chain six hundred kilometres long, stretching from the Estonian capital Tallinn via Riga in Latvia to the Lithuanian capital Vilnius. The longest human chain ever created proved to be the final step leading to the long-awaited independence. T...