Estonia remembers the Soviet deportations
On 14 June 1941, the Soviet Union forcibly deported over 10,000 people from Estonia to Siberia – over 7,000 were women, children, and elderly people; …
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The victims of Soviet deportations remembered in Estonia
On 25 March 1949, twenty thousand men, women and children from Estonia were deported by the Soviets to Siberia. Nearly 3% of the Estonian population …
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Tallinn to get a museum of communist crimes
The Estonian Institute of Historical Memory has launched the preparation of an international research centre and museum of crimes of communism in Tallinn, Estonia. The …
Editorial: Attempts to normalise the Soviet occupation of Estonia are deplorable
When one of the best and oldest schools in Estonia, the Gustav Adolf Grammar School, is attempting to glamorise the Soviet occupation, it’s a cause …
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75 years since the US refusal to accept the annexation of Estonia
On 23 July 1940, the United States’ acting Secretary of State, Sumner Welles, issued a declaration that condemned the Soviet Union’s aggression against Estonia, Latvia …
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Estonia commemorates the Baltic Chain – the longest unbroken human chain in history
At 19:00 on 23 August 1989, approximately two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania joined hands, forming a human chain from Tallinn through Riga …
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