Thank you Kris! I enjoyed reading this immensely and share many of the same observations of Savisaar. Something to consider...at the start of the Singing Revolution, Savisaar formed "Rahvarinne" or the People's Front. People's or "popular fronts" have been formed by communist regimes through time from Hungary to Vietnam. Frequently this has occurred when some form of loss of control seemed inevitable, such as the crumbling of the Soviet Union. In Savisaar's case, his "heroism" during the Singing Revolution may have been part of a revised 5 year plan? Was it a mere coincidence that these movements sprung up simultaneously and supposedly spontaneously throughout Eastern Europe in the late 80's?