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ESTONIA Night after night, a cycle of singing mass Demonstration s eventually collected 300,000 Estonia ns (more than one-fifth of the Population ) in Tallinn to sing national Song s and Hymn s, which had been strictly forbidden during the years of Soviet occupation, as Rock Musician s played. The Singing Revolution lasted over four years with various protests and acts of defiance. In 1991 , as Soviet tanks were rolling throughout the countryside in an attempt to quell the Singing Revolution, the Estonian Soviet ( Legislature ) together with the Congress Of Estonia proclaimed the restoration of the independent State of Estonia and repudiated Soviet legislation. Estonians stood as human shields to protect radio and TV stations from the tanks. As a result of the revolution, Estonia won its independence without any bloodshed. LATVIA By the time Mikhail Gorbachev introduced Glasnost and Perestroika in the USSR , which rolled-back restrictions to freedom in the Soviet Union, aversion to the Soviet regime had grown into the Third Latvian National Awakening . It reached its peak in summer 1988 . LITHUANIA See History Of Lithuania 1988-1990 SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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