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Group: Greece (Hellenic Republic)
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Topic: Singing Revolution
Location: Potidea Greece

Singing Revolution

Years: 1987 - 1990

The Singing Revolution is a commonly used name for events between 1987 and 1990 that lead to the restoration of the independence of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

The term is coined by an Estonian activist and artist, Heinz Valk, in an article published a week after the June 10-11 1988 spontaneous mass night-singing demonstrations at the Tallinn Song Festival Grounds.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

― George Santayana, The Life of Reason (1905)