La Via Bàltica

On August 23, 1989, two million Baltics joined hands to regain ownership of their countries, which had been lost exactly fifty years earlier by the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Side by side, all these people drew on the map of Europe, from Tallinn to Vilnius, a road of six hundred and ninety kilometers, the Baltic Way. They left and soon after were restored the republics of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, liberated from Soviet rule. Three decades have passed and now Jordi Arrufat takes stock. After walking through it and talking to its protagonists - and those who have benefited from it - he writes a fresh and documented story so that we can understand what remains of that historical feat in the spirit and memory of Estonians. , Latvians and Lithuanians. We will know how it was possible to organize the Baltic Way overcoming adversity, without mobile phones or the internet and under a totalitarian and violent regime. The Baltic Way is a portrait of dynamic societies, already established in democratic Europe, that face the future, despite the belligerence of Russia, with confidence. The wind seems to be blowing in his favor.