CORDIS Project
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This project explores the spontaneous humanitarian aid from Finland to Estonia during the late 1980s and early 1990s, highlighting the role of citizen networks in fostering relationships across the Iron Curtain. It employs a mixed-methods approach to uncover this under-researched aspect of history.
The last five years of Soviet rule marked by perestroika and glasnost enabled Estonians not only to communicate their dissent but also to build relationships with people on the other side of the Iron curtain.
One of the first types of contacts to start popping up were those with neighboring Finns.
Spontaneous unofficial person-to-person networks sprung into action delivering clothes, medicine, technology, toys and food to Estonia.
This gave Estonians a “taste of freedom”:
It not only helped to k…
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