Thread by @TheUfoJoe

I know some folks are personally affected by what's going on in Ukraine & want nothing to do w/UFO news right now. I understand. I'm going 2 continue doing what I do & if people want to ignore it, I understand. Hopefully, things don't deteriorate from here. I AM paying attention.

2 Ex-wife #2 (Iva), who is still my roommate, is of Estonian heritage so there's a history with the Soviet Union there, too. One thing she pointed out to me is The Singing Revolution. I had no idea.

"Estonia, which had endured foreign occupation for centuries, joined its fellow

3 "Baltic Republics of Latvia and Lithuania in a nonviolent movement that enabled them to become independent from the Soviet Union in 1991. Beginning in the mid-1980s, Estonians began taking advantage of their unique and rich cultural tradition, particularly in choral music, to

4 "encourage a national reawakening. Estonians gathered in the thousands and eventually hundreds of thousands to celebrate their heritage in song, in what became known as 'The Singing Revolution.' Raising the banned Estonian flag while gathering en masse and singing banned

5 "patriotic songs, the movement eventually gained the support of the republic’s ruling Communist Party in defying Moscow, faced down Soviet tanks, and successfully declared Estonian independence."

nonviolent-conflict.org/estonias-singi…