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Those Who Dare

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0.0·2015·1h 3m

When Mikhail Gorbachev rose to power in 1985, his reform policy sparked an independence movement in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. But as cries for he...

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Jón Baldvin Hannibalsson

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Marju Lauristin

Marju Lauristin

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Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Gorbachev

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Lennart Meri

Lennart Meri

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Edgar Savisaar

Edgar Savisaar

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Ólafur Rögnvaldsson

OVERVIEW

When Mikhail Gorbachev rose to power in 1985, his reform policy sparked an independence movement in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. But as cries for help from the Baltic States were met with silence from the international community at large, two small nations – Iceland and Denmark – answered the call, motivated by the personal connections of their foreign ministers, Jón Baldvin Hannibalsson and Uffe Elleman Jensen.