President Obama congratulated the Baltic States on the 25th anniversary of The Baltic Way

The White House congratulated Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania on the 25th anniversary of The Baltic Way on Saturday.

"On behalf of President Obama and the people of the United States, we congratulate the people of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania on the 25th anniversary of The Baltic Way, when as many as two million people joined hands on August 23, 1989 to form a human chain spanning nearly 400 miles from Tallinn to Riga to Vilnius," The White House said in a statement.
The Baltic Way was organised as a rebuke to the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop pact which led to the occupation of the region by the Soviet Union. The United States never recognised the Soviet occupation of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, which lasted from World War II until restoration of independence in 1991.