The processes which are presently occurring in Estonia are part of a world-wide process of the disintegration of totalitarian ideological societies. It is extremely important to be aware of the fact that this does not concern simply the change of political status, that it, not only regaining the republic's independence, but it means the end of the society in which all of us, both Russians and Estonians of the present generation, have grown up and in which we have become accustomed to live. Now we have to live in a different kind of society which does not exist yet and which we have to construct together.