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I am tearing up oh my god 

These are pictures of the Baltic Chain, aka the Chain of Freedom, in which TWO MILLION PEOPLE in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania formed a HUMAN CHAIN spanning THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY MILES / SIX HUNDRED KILOMETRES through THREE COUNTRIES to peacefully protest the Soviet occupation of the Baltic states in 1989 and show the mutual desire for independence of each of the states.  

Two million people in a human chain. Two million people in a gesture of peaceful, international protest against their oppressors. Sometimes humanity can be a beautiful thing.

(Source: Wikipedia, via perelka-l)