Picture 1-4: Tom Palm speaking and addressing audience members.
Picture 5:
A choir of 25,000 singers.
Picture 6:
After 50 years of Soviet occupation, the blue, black and white
national flag was hoisted again in l989.
Picture 7:
After the restoration of independence, about 300,000 people,
1 in 4 of all the Estonians in the world, gathered at the
2004 Song Festival.
Picture 8:
Estonia has been under multiple occupations for centuries. The
Medieval forts in the photo are German (foreground) and Russian.
Picture 9: Tom Palm was invited to lecture about market economics in the late 80s
and early 90s. In the photo, I am Teaching at EMI, the Estonian
Management Institute, a former Communist Party School.
Picture 10 & 11:
The consumer economy under Communism featured empty shelves and
long lines.
