Good evening, Young Guard candidates! Good evening, esteemed participants of the Barricades! Good evening to all gathered here! Thirty-five years ago, people gathered here on Zaķusala with main task was to protect our television, to safeguard the spirit of our emerging independence and freedom. At that time, in Vilnius, the bloody Soviet regime attempted to crush the freedom and aspirations for independence of the Baltic states after fifty years of occupation. Many people lost their lives, and…
Good evening, Young Guard candidates! Good evening, esteemed participants of the Barricades! Good evening to all gathered here! Thirty-five years ago, people gathered here on Zaķusala with main task was to protect our television, to safeguard the spirit of our emerging independence and freedom. At that time, in Vilnius, the bloody Soviet regime attempted to crush the freedom and aspirations for independence of the Baltic states after fifty years of occupation. Many people lost their lives, and the aim was to intimidate us all – to frighten us so that we would abandon our efforts to break free from Soviet occupation, from the Soviet camp, from the Soviet regime. But they failed. They failed in Vilnius, they failed in Riga, and they failed…
