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This photo is forbidden to be published in Russia.

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…

Valdo Praust: 80 years ago, 10 July 1941, the main unit of Erna from Finland landed at Salmistu Beach.

“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…

Today, 6 July 1941, Stalin’s European conquest offensive operation “GROM” was due to begin.

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…

Publishing House Argo – “Tossed by the Squalls”. The book about Bruno Linneberg.

  To make Bruno Linneberg’s legacy available to the general public, the publisher Argo has published a book “Tossed by the Squalls. Captain Major Bruno Linneberg. Estonian Navy Officer and his time” by Reet Naber and Arto Oll for the…

Bruno Linneberg – A little known hero of Estonian Military Intelligence.

In honour of Bruno Linneberg an exhibition in the Seaplane Harbour, in Tallinn, in cooperation between the Maritime Museum and the International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS) is held until the beginning of 2022. The exhibition covers successfully conducted…

SA VALDEF: ERR uudised and Delfi attacks on Ukraine by resurrected Soviet propaganda Nazi smearing methods are unjustified

  SA VALDEF has send two official rebukes to ERR uudised and Delfi parent company Eskpressmeedia AS for expressing explicit condemnation for their participation of using resurrected  Soviet propaganda method of Ukraine Nazi smearing by publishing the Russian pushed narrative…

Sunken Finnish WWII era escort vessel “Uisko” has finally received a documentation dive.

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….

Stalin’s May 5, 1941 speech.

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…