WHY CATALAN PEOPLE IS HOLDING HIS HANDS TODAY ? Organizers are drawing inspiration from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, where protesters formed a million-person human chain stretching 600 kilometers in 1989 to protest the oppression of those Baltic Republics under Soviet rule. Within several months, Lithuania declared independence from the Soviet Union, which then collapsed in 1991. Catalan organizers have flown in Baltic advisers to help them with the chain.
Posted on: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 00:03:01 +0000