ESTONIAN SYMPHONIC MUSIC. THE FIRST CENTURY 1896-1996.
became evident in August 1968 when the Soviet military forces brutally suppressed the
new liberal communist tide in Czechoslovakia.
The population of Estonia was incessantly growing on the account of
immigrants from the East, on average 9,000 people per year1.
The suppression of critical opposition, revived political trials, created a
democratic movement for human and civil rights. One of the most prominent leaders of
it was the Soviet Academician Andrey Sakharov.
New movements started in the Baltic states, demanding the right to have a
different opinion: people’s control over the actions of the government, establishment of
a multi-party system, discharge of political prisoners and real independence were
among the demands.
To what extent is a human being free and able to direct his own destiny in the
nightmare-like horrible and tormenting conditions of being between two great hostile
powers
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