All posts tagged Soviet Union

Estonian MEP Tunne Kelam to be awarded the Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom
November 14, 2018 · No comments

The Estonian member of the European Parliament, Tunne Kelam, is to be awarded the Truman-Reagan...

Mart Laar: Hollywood should make a blockbuster about communist crimes
December 1, 2017 · No comments

The former Estonian prime minister, Mart Laar, told Estonian World that the world still avoids...

A memorial to the victims of communism to be erected in Canada
November 8, 2017 · No comments

A memorial to the victims of communism is to be erected in the Canadian capital,...

Getting high in the Soviet-occupied Estonia
October 30, 2017 · No comments

The Estonian director Terje Toomistu, who recently completed a documentary about the hippie movement in...

Estonian documentary about Soviet hippies premieres in Brazil
October 26, 2017 · No comments

“Soviet Hippies”, an Estonian documentary directed by Terje Toomistu, made its international premiere at the...

Karoli Hindriks: When the tanks have passed your playground
August 19, 2016 · 4 comments

Karoli Hindriks, the CEO and founder of the Estonian startup, Jobbatical, writes about her personal...

PICTURES: Deported Estonians in Siberia
June 14, 2016 · 3 comments

In the summer of 1940, the Soviet Union occupied Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as a...

20 pictures of Soviet-era Estonia
February 9, 2015 · 6 comments

Tomas Alexandersson, a young Swede, who moved to Tallinn, started collecting the postcards and travel...

Make love, not war – hippie movement in the Estonian SSR
October 12, 2014 · No comments

In the autumn of 1970, a rumour about a major hippie gathering coming to the...