The 25 to 28 March 1949 deportation of Estonians by the Soviet Union was an event almost seven months ago by 13 October. This was a major deportation, given the impact of the 1944 defence battles at Jaanilinn, Narva, Sinimäed,…
The Harkivi Tractor Factory has an extremely important significance both to Ukraine and its occupying since 1921 Soviet Union. The meaning cannot be expressed otherwise than it became an epoch making and on the whole occupied territories the meaning of…
On the eve of the 2021 presidential elections of the Republic of Estonia, it is necessary to recall our previous presidents who had been able to earn a second term of office. Greatly due of the degradation of the moral…
Russia, the legal successor of the Soviet Union, banned the display of a picture set out in the title of the Soviet Army Victory Parade celebration over the victory on Nazi German on 24 June 1945. Also never have these…
The picture is a still from Estonian movie “Risttuules” (2014) that depicts Soviet mass deportation of Estonians to Siberia on 14 June 1941. First wave of Soviet ethnic cleansing of Estonians efforts that later results in loss of 30% of…
Soomepoisid, could be translated as Finnish Boys, is a moniker for Estonian men who instead of being caught and forced to serve the Soviet or German army went to the other side of the Gulf of Finland and joined Finnish…
“The night’s dark, and the boat cuts the foaming sea, the coast of Finland disappears from the horizon.” Untsakad “The night’s dark.” Even less, than 1944 defensive battles of Narva and battles of Sinimäed, is among the Estonians known the…
We are publishing Valdo Praust Facebook’s post about the crimes against humanity committed by the NKVD death squads in Tartu prison over the innocent Estonians which were committed simply because the NKVD could, had power and lacked any moral…
We are publishing a post from Valdo Praust on 6 July 1941 with the aim of maintaining this post and its message to the widest possible audience. We will bring the post without reference to the original, because as a…
Paldiski was established by the orders of Peter the Great. From the start the city had one aim only – military purpose. Peter the Great built a littoral castle to defend the approach to Tallinn. If one looks carefully at…
On 3 July 1941 the active phase of Estonian Summer War of 1941 began after Stalin’s scorched earth decree and radio speech that was ordered to be conducted by the NKVD. With the operation “Barbarossa” and Stalin’s speech of 3…
On July 4 and 5 1941 the NKVD officers sadistically dozed all 14 cattle wagons of the train in Zalishchyky, Ukraine, with petrol and set alight, burning alive all the political prisoners inside. Later, the burnt cattle wagons, were thrown…
This article is based on gleaned information by Estonian media and journalist over 30 years span just confirms the cost of being occupied by the USSR that employs on one’s territory at their will to the point the occupied…
Finnish diving company SubZone posted fresh update on their carefully coordinated with Estonian maritime traffic control documentation dive to the WW2 era sunken Finnish vessel “Usiko” (Skate) that up to this point was not documented. Here’s SubZone Facebook post….
On May 5, 1941 Stalin is making a speech in the Kremlin’s Great Hall for the just graduated Military Academy cadets where he first time lauds the Soviet Red Army capability and explicitly delivers the message for the fresh army…
