The Hirvepark meeting ( et, Hirvepargi miiting) was held in
Estonia
Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...
on 23 August 1987 in
Hirvepark, the anniversary of the
Nazi-Soviet Pact. It was attended by 2,000 to 5,000 people, and was one of the first organized public demonstrations against the
Estonian Communist Party. It sparked a wave of
anti-Soviet
Anti-Sovietism, anti-Soviet sentiment, called by Soviet authorities ''antisovetchina'' (russian: антисоветчина), refers to persons and activities actually or allegedly aimed against the Soviet Union or government power within the ...
activity and mass protests in support of independence.
References
History of Tallinn
1987 in Estonia
1987 in the Soviet Union
1987 protests
August 1987 events in Europe
Protests in the Soviet Union
Protests in Estonia
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