The story is well known in Estonia; it is also part of the movie August, 1991 and is mentioned at length in the documentary The Singing Revolution.
During the turbulent decades that followed, music became a powerful unifying force in the Baltic republics - a means of preserving the country’s national identity, as well as a tool for political resistance in the face of cultural genocide.
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