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Heinz Valk (birth name Heinrich Valk; born March 7, 1936 in
Heinz Valk (birth name Heinrich Valk; born March 7, 1936 in Gatchina
The town of Gatchina ( rus, Га́тчина, , ˈɡatːɕɪnə, links=y) serves as the administrative center of the Gatchinsky District in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It lies south-south-west of St. Petersburg, along the E95 highway whic ...
) is an Estonia
Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and t ...
n artist, caricaturist
A caricaturist is an artist who specializes in drawing caricatures.
List of caricaturists
* Abed Abdi (born 1942)
* Al Hirschfeld (1903–2003)
* Alex Gard (1900–1948)
* Alexander Saroukhan (1898–1977)
* Alfred Grévin (1827–1892)
* ...
and politician. He is credited for coining the term "Singing Revolution
The Singing Revolution; lv, dziesmotā revolūcija; lt, dainuojanti revoliucija) was a series of events that led to the restoration of independence of the Baltic nations of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania from the Soviet Union at the end of th ...
" ( et, laulev revolutsioon) and its slogan "One day, no matter what, we will win!" ( et, Ükskord me võidame niikuinii!) some of the most famous sentences from the end of the 1980s and beginning of the 1990s, to describe Estonia's struggle for regaining independence from the Soviet Union in the early 1990s.
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1936 births Living people People from Gatchina Estonian Centre Party politicians Estonian caricaturists 20th-century Estonian male artists 21st-century Estonian male artists Estonian Academy of Arts alumni Recipients of the Order of the National Coat of Arms, 3rd Class Estonian independence activists Recipients of the Order of the White Star, 4th Class {{estonia-politician-stub