Estonian Independence Day
the northeast of the country on the Narva river and on the Tannenberg Line.
Tens of thousands of people chose to eighter retreat together with the Germans
or flee to Finland or Sweden, becoming war refugees and later, expatriates.
The United States, United Kingdom and the majority of other western
democracies considered the annexation of Estonia by USSR illegal. They
retained diplomatic relations with the representatives of the independent
Respublic of Estonia, never recognized Estonia as a legal constituent part of
Soviet Union. Estonia's return to independence became possible as the Soviet
Union ran into economic dufficulties as a consequence of the Cold War and
began to disintegrate. As te situation evolved, a movement for more Estonian
selfgovernance started.
In 1989, during the ,,Singing Revolution", a human chain of more than 2 million
people, called the Baltic Way, was formed, streching through Lithuania, Latvia
and Estonia.
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