The Singing Revolution

I am not Estonian by nationality, although both of my parents were Estonians who managed to leave the country before the Soviet Union took over . Recently I have started to research and learn more about the history of this nation and I wanted to share the story of the Singing Revolution with you.

Estonia is a small nation in the Northern Europe near the Baltic Sea. Its neighbours are Finland, Latvia, Russia and Sweden. It is a country that has not existed for a long time, although during its first 22 years it has become to be one of the most innovated countries in Europe. Everything can be done online, Skype was made by Estonians, now they are starting to teach children programming from the 1st grade. Public free WIFI is nearly everywhere. A truly inspiring area

Although historically this small nation has suffered a lot. Since the crusades, different large nations used Estonians as a slave nation for nearly 700 years. Firstly Estonia gained it independence in 1918, although it did not last for long, as the poor nation was occupied again bythe Soviets in 1939, then by the Nazis, and then by the Soviets again, Estonia lived through decades of terror. By the end of World War II, more than one-quarter of the population had been deported to Siberia, been executed, or had fled the country. Music sustained the Estonian people during those years, helping to maintain the Estonian language and sense of culture. It was such a crucial part of their struggle for freedom that their successful bid to re-establish their independence is known as the Singing Revolution.

By the late-1980’s, Mikhail Gorbachev’s attempts to salvage the empire by offering perestroika (restructuring) and glasnost (free speech) were backfiring, as Estonians saw the new policies as an opportunity. The nation was simmering with unrest.

The Revolution started in the summer of 1987, when mass protests by the Estonian people began against Russian occupation of their country. In the June evenings of that year over 10,000 people a night packed the The Tallinn Song Festival Grounds, where they sang patriotic and national songs forbidden by the Soviet regime. These gatherings helped unite the Estonian people and ignited a renewed wave of passion for their national identity (which was being marginalised by aggressive Russification of the country), furthering the country's desire for freedom. In September of 1988, 300,000 Estonians gathered at the The Tallinn Song Festival Grounds to continue their protest and to hear the first public demand for independence being made

This was the heart of the “Singing Revolution”. The force of the human voice massed in song was the cultural catalyst that awoke, energized and united the nation of Estonia. It was a political and cultural statement that brought all Estonians together and gave them courage to rebel. After that there was no turning up. Three primary freedom movements, with radically different styles, worked both publicly and surreptitiously to push the Soviet system. A series of clever political maneuvers, combined with ever-growing singing demonstrations, overwhelmed a confused and failing Moscow.

Back in the Baltics, on 23rd August 1989, a vast and impressive demonstration was staged. 2 000 000 people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania joined hands along a 370 mile stretch of road between Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius. This powerful and public statement against Russian rule was deliberately timed to to mark the 50th anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, in which Hitler and Stalin had seen fit to divide up Europe between them.

On August 19, 1991, a hard-line coup toppled Gorbachev’s government in Moscow, creating chaos - as well as opportunity. The Estonian Soviet parliament united with freedom activist groups and voted unanimously to re-establish Estonia’s independence, not knowing how the coup would be resolved or what the repercussions might be. During the vote, Estonian citizens gathered at the TV tower and radio stations to link arm-in-arm in front of tanks, risking their lives to protect their main source of communication with the outside world. On August 21, 1991 the nightmare of the Soviet Union was over; and Estonia emerged - once again - a free nation. When the army and the soviet politicians where marching out, the huge crowd simply formed a lane between them for the leaving parties and kept singing. Every other nation, who gained freedom had more violence, more blood spilt, except Estonians who just sang themselves free, peacefully

Sources:
www.singingrevolution.com...
www.local-life.com...
Documentary trailer (I suggest it) : www.singingrevolution.com...

I mixed the external stories together and added a bit myself, as far as I knew

I am really amazed how a country managed to pull off an act of gaining independence without no guns, no violence, no negativite actions. Simply peaceful positive acts, which lead to independence

It inspiring how such acts can lead to such results. For me, it shows that any country could change a lot by joining together and doing something about it, without being violent or aggressive. How do you believe anything like that would be possible in the world of today?


PS. I hope this is the right forum for it I thought for a long time where to put it, although the philosophical forum seemed the best for it.

Considering the situation in Ukraine, I just wanted to raise this thread...

Just like Estonia, all previous Soviet Nations, including Ukraine, fought hard for their independence. The Estonian example can be seen in the opening post of this thread. The people in these nations have nothing against Russians, as lots of them are living, working side-by-side in these countries (Lost of Russians are living there not due to historical reasons, but due to Soviet Union shipping Russians into these small nations in order to create larger population of them in these countries), but they simply want freedom, the freedom to be independent countries and make their choices accordingly. Russia will always be their neighbour and they respect that, but they want independence to make their own choice, choose their own way and with the fear of Russia some day invading them again as has happened in the history, they have had the need to select another strong ally, like NATO, as alone they would not stand against such a large nation as Russia )Baltics population combined is 20 times less compared to Russia) . These nations are not aggressive and would never be able to invade their large neighbour, they simply want peace and independence, just like Ukraine does.

Just noticed the thread, and wanting to thank to open it,
As we are one of the ancient nations that multiple forces have attempted to erase from history, its nice to see someone to bring us up here.

Here is video promo clip from USA film maker, with few important notations, about the Singing Revolution

(Hopefully someone can help in private message to fix my letter-sentence usage in here, as You can see it is not easiest task for my current condition.)

There was actually much more to it then romantic singing, it was time-changing event, in combination with radio professionals like Aadu JõgiAas "RIverField" and many other up to now classified people and their work (Slightly mentioned in book "Veretu Võitlus - Bloodless FIght", in academic field, Aadu was able to write a book later pension years when he managed to recover hes wiped memory ) that help to overwrite the mind-control waves that Soviets/Extraterrestrials was using and infiltrate KGB channels (also disrupting back Soviets head signal-communication) and same time being above the KGB reach for the novel technology that we built to "unplug" enough people from "slave bewitched channels" so they could "Normalize" between patriotic people, behave as needed by true inner feelings, and this was done not just in Estonia.
In a way we hijacked back the souls from aliens if you may, de-hypnotized
(there is codes in music, all singing material/words was letter by letter monitored by KGB special divisions on highest order, years later RUssia Army Special Research division still conduct special research on our folk material and clothing patterns, letter belt "KiriVöö" to uncover all the power from it they could)
and connected souls-spirits whit singing back to our bodies in light manner that would not cause revolutionary uproar whit all the emotions, opponents hopeful provocations and pre-mature feelings.

It was extremely important for us, that not a Single person loose their life when we overthrow the mightiest most feared ruthless power for proving the point and also for not disrupting out own wizardry and feelings.
We all needed to be in feelings "we are willing to go to the end, as one".
It was not a flower-power (more like shamanism) as every one with any strength was also ready to do their part and understood the importance of the situation in time.


There was multiple-multiple many works, in many times, in around a world that was done to it and much work, years before, before that, to get to this point.
There is still much to do, as evil transformed and their symbols are still around the world and they keep trying to bring fear-terror force back to present time from many doors that are sealed for good.






Few more Estonia threads:

Secret weapon delivery hijacking
www.abovetopsecret.com...
(Possibly, also related to Tenet & Sillamäe History:
1. int center for Defense ,
2. 100,000 tons of plutonium for 70 000 warheads ..just in one location.. )


One of the many, most well known public story: Merivälja Alien under-ground laboratory/craft
www.abovetopsecret.com...
(near that aria magic psychedelic hallucinogenic mind-sharpening "Teravpaljak" potent mushrooms also grow, that was told to be old alien laboratory from the "trippers" pipe-reports). Aria was sealed off on soviet time and under deep cover and has some weirdness related to land usage up to now.


Good to remember also: Eesti, (Estonia "Est.") means "a Front (that stands out for others)" and our language code is : ET

A singing revolution... Sounds like a bunch of communist propaganda.

It's what "they" want you to believe. You can win freedom by singing and not using violence.

We all know violence wins the day each and every time.

They want you to be non-violent and singing. That way they can beat you to death for calling for revolution!

It's a conspiracy I tells ya, a conspiracy!

originally posted by: Cabin

I am really amazed how a country managed to pull off an act of gaining independence without no guns, no violence, no negativite actions. Simply peaceful positive acts, which lead to independence

What amazing things do you see here?

Gorbachev surrendered to the USSR in all directions, therefore there was no resistance to this "revolution."

By the way, Gorbachev has been living in the West all these years.

For some reason, you did not write that all the people of the Soviet Union who were in Estonia at the time of its separation are non-citizens in this country.

This is how the Estonians thanked those who built industrial enterprises in their country.

a reply to: LuureAmet


Thought I'd fix that for you amigo



If you hit my quote button (this post) up top you can see what I did here.

Take it to your post hit your quote button and compare them to see the difference.

You don't copy the whole URL. Just the ending letters.

a reply to: Cabin

I hope to see Estonia one day. Best wishes to the Estonian people.

Cheers

a reply to: DaRAGE
a reply to: turretless

Can you be a bit less commie-red ?

For you information, Estonia has been one of that part of the world hallmark in all the history,
Before communists we was on higher level then Finland,
besides Estonia natural powers as time management, shamanism, wizardry, matriarchy (we helped the Finland to be one of the first and then forced entire soviet union to allow Female voting long before rest of the world ), nearly world largest collections folk wisdom and medicine knowledge there was
highest quality products from (Estonia)Radio s to (Estonia)pianos was made by Estonians. Centuries before Royalties buy mirrors from Estonia and USA army cannabis for their ships. For longest time tallest building in that part of Europe and in World was in Estonia already in 16 century www.tripadvisor.com... so it is not like we needed that communist "industrial revolution" to "advance" us.

Soviet Union try to show off whit Estonia any time they needed to prove something smart to outer world but they try to keep it as "non Estonian" as possible, it is rare when our innovations from social science, literature to semiotics, or any other field was allowed to keep Estonia label. In fact most of the time it was crime that can land You in prison,

"Industrial revolution" is TERRIBLE world and crude word, it is nothing what we needed. It Destroyed thousands of years of development of culture and the destruction results will still take centuries to heal.

Entire country is filled whit the ugly apartments and ugly buildings, and drunkards, immoral behavior "soviet products" (if there is 1 among 100, its TOO many) of this atheist "revolution", much of our worth was destroyed and stolen on that time, our planetary high perfected farm culture destroyed (already on wiking times, our farms had their own coat of arms ).



for these who know what is pentagram force You seem to serve, if we see that anyone say anything like that, then we think: there can be only 2 reasons, 1) You do it in purpose, knowing who You are and what You stand for (against humans) or 2) you are really well brainwashed communist anti-human tool,

i personally do not think, that You do not know what You say but you do it in purpose, as it is impossible for intelligent people to have this kind of true opinion about all of it,


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a reply to: turretless

I wonder is there any place or topic in where communists are NOT shamed to share their propaganda ?
After trump-era invoked the communists around the world its like they not even shamed of them self nor caring to keep their cover as they should be, you know, as true criminal organization underground, the Real communists, in west should be ashamed of their colors.



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originally posted by: DaRAGE
A singing revolution... Sounds like a bunch of communist propaganda.
It's what "they" want you to believe. You can win freedom by singing and not using violence.
We all know violence wins the day each and every time.

I hope You did a ironic joke in here,
As we all know, in the end, non violence is that what Will win (has won) in long run,
and whit brain control technology to make people "equal" slaves in a way, communists after a time also, try that, as much they manage to manipulate and imitate the humans, pretending they are peaceful, so they can win the unwinnable ,
these parts of human world they will not be able to win whit a force, never,

The Singing Revolution was not ONE day event, it was Years long preparations and pre-work,in many fields, in a way it is going on , it was just one of the many lessons the Ancient people of Estonia, who are one of the first species in this land, shared to a planet earth in relation of how to deal whit aliens.


Someone whit strong communist vibe mentioned Gorbachev here,
well,
For example Estonia helped to protect Gorba from more red fractions of communists, literally in Estonia woods farms away from dark evil communist forces who wanted to use hes body for execution and mainham actions, 2 times it was done in Estonia,

in where Estonians did what is needed to ensure no strike action from Gorba crew against Baltics,
communists are SO pissed and angry about Gorba "sold out to west" but they newer explain what it actually meant.

Red forces also installed health attacking device in to hes office that made him drink and nearly killed hes health.

it was long line of wizardry and magic, mind control technology competition and destruction of old control structures that was invisible to naked eye,
that was done

Many of the important leader companions in Ru gov have been from Estonia, even the current presidential administration headAnton Vaino, for example is Estonian.

The ones who was in to know, know for sure long years before that this will happen, my own father for example in 80s already know and prepared for it, advanced it

also was and is known, that communists will have time to change their colors around that time and they will start to become Liberals, Republicans, Democrats, Socialists, Businessman, Academics, Human rights activists... on 2016-2020 (30 years from 90s, their main large jumps happen in 15/30 years interval roughly) the MAIN focus was to prepare Fake-Right and sleeper agents in right side with their programmed communist opponents in Liberal fraction as new massive communist revolution in combination whit covid.

As related to all that main things will be classified for at least 50 years, there is not much we can talk right now, as the after waves of smaller time-bombs we still need to handle but they will not be in effect they was planned to be on the massive takeover they hoped for.

Majority of people will not know even, that they got attacked, their mind got affected and much more, that often communists them self from fake controlled opposition presented their plans in many ways around the web back on these times (from accounts they was all able to turn off if failed,

THere is so much we revert in time, as the war that communists forced Russia and Ukraina in to , was actually part of much bigger plan then the failed invasion that is going on now.

For now Ukraina get hardest part of that aftermath, but the death the communist planned around the world was much more targeted and larger, up to "weeding out" anyone who is too moral, these who support shamanism or psychedelics and these who know truths about history or information technology and is willing to use it for human benefit, all the royals and noble and culturally correct people who is Actually conservative (not the fake-right) or correct way liberal in related to human soul freedom, was also in "covid target" and target in a organized mainham they planned,

but none of the country mass riots took root as commies-aliens planned as we know this time better how to stop their mind manipulation tech, but as world has many layers and in many layers there is many different schemes and methods, there is still long work for long centuries ahead to make, kind of like these ugly soviet buildings that still creep in to your eyes here and there. And much of it as integrated in to "new normal" and as long people fail to clean one another from elementary commie tools (not just alcohol, commersical waste, cigarettes, culturally unbenefitial addiction and porno) then it will be long road to get anywhere near to actually normal world,

a reply to: LuureAmet

Yeah of course my post was a joke.