with yeltsin said here flanked by the chairmen of their parliaments garman off represented latvia landsberg is from lithuania in early till from most tonia yeltsin made a speech here he signed three treaties with the baltic states. estonian historian mark lara began his struggle for his country's independence in the mid one nine hundred eighty s. he organized and took part in memory a sense of protest. the most high profile of them was the famous bolton way up on august twenty third in one nine hundred eighty nine people in the three soviet baltic republics of lithuania latvia and the stonier formed a six hundred kilometer human chain linking the three capitals. on the reserve and you and i began my struggle against communism when i was still a college student at the same time i campaigned for a stony as independence which was a logical thing to do and if we had lost our freedom as a result of a pact between two regimes that ism and communism. as a staunch opponent of communism markel our twice held the post of premier after estonia obtained independence now he is the country's defense mini