Price of Freedom

The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, signed between the Soviet Union and Germany on 23 August 1939, robbed us of our freedom for nearly fifty years. Despite the waves of deportations and Russification, the people remembered the independence they had once won and longed to have it back. This excursion tells the story of that dream coming true — of the price of freedom: what happened towards the end of the 1980s, and what were the events, the people and the places bound up with that era.