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SUMMARY:The Baltic Way in Our Memory – Commemoration of Baltic Way Day in Raseini
 ai
DESCRIPTION:Information from the Raseiniai Regional History Museum: On August 23\, 37 y
 ears ago\, many older people participated in the Baltic Way action in one w
 ay or another. This date is deeply etched in our memory\, but we want to re
 member that day again and again. We invite you to this year’s events dedi
 cated to the Baltic Way and European Day of Remembrance for the Victims of 
 Stalinism and Nazism: at 10 a.m. Holy Mass at the Church of the Assumption 
 of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Raseiniai\; at 11:15 a.m. a commemoration in 
 Žemaičio aikštė. From August 23–28\, the photography exhibition “Fa
 ces of the Baltic Way” will be on display in Žemaičio aikštė. Let us 
 briefly go through the history of this event. Driving along the road from V
 ilnius toward Riga via Ukmergė and Panevėžys\, about forty small-archite
 cture monuments stand by the roadside. They were erected in memory of the B
 altic Way. At the eighty-first kilometer from the road\, a fairly large bou
 lder is clearly visible\, with a mounted metal sun and an inscription on a 
 black stone plaque – “BALTIJOS KELIAS / 1989.08.23 / RASEINIAI” . Eve
 ry five years\, when the anniversaries of the Baltic Way are celebrated\, R
 aseiniai residents who stood on this road in 1989 come to this stone\, brin
 g their children and grandchildren\, remember\, sing\, take photos and\, as
  they did then\, join hands and form a living chain of people… although a
  much smaller one. On August 23\, 1989\, marking the 50th anniversary of th
 e Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact\, the Lithuanian Reform Movement Sąjūdis\, the 
 Latvian and Estonian Popular Fronts invited people to a unique action of pe
 aceful protest. A 650-kilometer chain of people holding hands lined up on t
 he main highway connecting the capitals of the Baltic states – Vilnius\, 
 Riga\, Tallinn. One month – that was all the time left to prepare everyth
 ing. The three-kilometer section beyond Ukmergė was assigned to Raseiniai.
  People from the Raseiniai Sąjūdis took on the organization – they made
  information cards\, looked for transport for participants\, and even publi
 shed a special issue of the Sąjūdis newspaper “Dubysa”. The district 
 newspaper “Naujas rytas” announced the full-day program: at 8 o’clock
  the raising of the National Flag in Žemaičio aikštė. At 3 p.m. a colum
 n of cars is formed near Kalnujai\, and at 4 p.m. the column sets off from 
 the Ariogala – Čekiškė junction toward the 265–267 kilometers of the
  M21 highway. People were invited to travel by their own cars\, bringing ne
 ighbors and friends. The announcement stated: “We will join hands at 7 p.
 m. It is desirable that you have small mourning National flags and candles\
 , as well as black ribbons. At 8 p.m. Holy Mass in the churches of Raseinia
 i district. At 11 p.m. mourning ta
LOCATION:Raseiniai
URL:https://smagiai.lt/en/renginys/the-baltic-way-in-our-memory-commemoration-of-baltic-way-day-in-raseiniai/
CREATED:20260817T023232Z
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