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Can a nation's desire for freedom turn an entire city into a symbol of nonviolent resistance? "Barricades in the streets of Old Riga, heavy machinery, cars, sanitary posts, rural people alongside Riga residents - it seemed so unreal, and yet it was reality. Nowhere did I feel this belonging, this co-responsibility for the fate of my people with such great force, as at that time." This will be a story about the barricades of 1991 - events at the barricades and before them, memories and reactions.